Pollution

News Ready or not, here comes China

Outside of China's gleaming cities, the country's growth has been accompanied by tremendous pollution
By David Sirota Jul 18, 2009

  • Obama's EPA fires a warning shot at polluters

    It's time for coal-fired power plant operators to clean up their act. There's a new sheriff in town.
    By Andrew Leonard February 5, 2009

  • Stop the noise!

    When noise pollution is not making us sick and anxious, it is literally killing us. How do we turn it off?
    By Katharine Mieszkowski June 25, 2008

  • Waterlogged

    "Bottlemania" author Elizabeth Royte explains how one of life's necessities became an extravagance, denounced by environmentalists and nuns alike.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski June 7, 2008

  • My boyfriend has an abysmal environmental conscience

    He says we'll all be dead in 100 years so who cares if he pollutes the air!
    By Cary Tennis May 13, 2008

  • Hope in the midst of Chinese pollution?

    James Fallows says all is not lost in the battle to save China's environment. But the odds sure look daunting.
    By Andrew Leonard May 29, 2008

  • Poison ice

    As the sea ice melts, a toxic stew of mercury and synthetic chemicals is seeping into the Arctic food web, harming the area's people. We may be next.
    By Elizabeth Grossman April 30, 2008

  • Ron Paul's free, green market

    The libertarian presidential contender says laissez-faire policies could stop global warming and save the planet.
    By Amanda Griscom Little November 29, 2007

  • American Electric Power faces the acid rain music

    The company must pay $4.6 billion to comply with the requirements of the Clean Air Act -- rules the Bush administration did its best to get rid of.
    By Andrew Leonard October 9, 2007

  • Bush's cold view of climate change

    Leading climate researcher Peter Goldmark says the administration is defying headwinds of progress on controlling greenhouse gases.
    By Gregor Peter Schmitz September 28, 2007

  • Chris Dodd pushes the energy envelope

    The presidential candidate is alone in calling for a carbon tax -- he says voters can "handle the truth."
    By Amanda Griscom Little September 10, 2007

  • I hate buzzwords! It's not "carbon," it's "carbon dioxide"

    And what about these stupid yellow ribbons everywhere? I hate that too!
    By Cary Tennis July 18, 2007

  • I clean green but the dishes don't gleam!

    I use nonpolluting products wherever I can -- but this brand-name commercial stuff really makes plates and glasses sparkle!
    By Cary Tennis February 13, 2007

  • Exploit the workers and pollute the seas

    A Chinese state-owned mining company operating in Papua New Guinea is making the West look good
    By Andrew Leonard February 12, 2007

  • China's boom and doom

    China now produces tons of cheap clothes, electronics and raw materials -- and dizzying amounts of pollution beginning to taint the globe.
    By Andreas Lorenz and Wieland Wagner February 12, 2007

  • Seven billion pairs of shoes a year, and counting

    The Chinese footwear industry: One more data point on the path to environmental destruction.
    By Andrew Leonard January 30, 2007

  • Gulf Coast slaves

    Halliburton and its subcontractors hired hundreds of undocumented Latino workers to clean up after Katrina -- only to mistreat them and throw them out without pay.
    By Roberto Lovato November 15, 2005

  • Heavy-metal madness

    A report by two congressmen downplays the connection between toxic mercury emissions and human health.
    By Amanda Griscom Little February 26, 2005

  • Dead movement walking?

    Roiled by harsh internal criticism and confronting four more years of Bush, environmentalists face a dark night of the soul.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski January 14, 2005

  • I am what I ate

    I'm a toxic waste dump, loaded with mercury -- and I don't even eat very much fish.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski November 17, 2004

  • Give us your trees, your air, your crystal waters

    Environmentalists say that four more years of Bush will turn even the red states black.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski November 5, 2004

  • Coal: Clean, green power machine?

    Forget about that nasty oil or radioactive nuclear waste: If you want to breathe fresh air, says the coal industry, burn, baby, burn!
    By Katharine Mieszkowski October 5, 2004

  • Muckraker

    Is ChevronTexaco buying Gov. Schwarzenegger's approval for a new, pollution-heavy gas refinery in Southern California?
    By Amanda Griscom September 10, 2004

  • The end of the world is here

    Disasters spawned by global warming are no longer science fiction, Ross Gelbspan argues in "Boiling Point" -- they're already here.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski August 5, 2004

  • A-pillaging we will go

    And you thought Iraq was bad. A new book, "Bush Versus the Environment," details an assault on our air, water and natural resources that beggars the imagination.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski June 30, 2004
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