Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. When the Environmental Protection Agency was formed in 1970, its ...

As worsening air quality and wildfire events increasingly impact communities worldwide, a study recognized by the American ...

Pollution has become a major global environmental and public health dilemma. It has however long been a bane afflicting ...

Proposed hazardous waste oversight changes are years behind schedule and fail to account for a community’s health risks from ...

The delay will cause more serious heart and lung diseases and early deaths, and result in billions of dollars in health harms.

Billions of gallons of sewage have entered San Diego communities through the Tijuana River. Local leaders are speeding up plans to clean up the river and protect public health.

In the stratosphere, ozone acts as a protective layer. But in the troposphere, at ground level, this colorless gas is incredibly harmful to human health and the environment in ways scientists are ...

Several efforts are underway to address the decades-long Tijuana River sewage crisis: wastewater treatment fixes on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, air purifiers for impacted households and ...

Black residents in Philadelphia face some of the highest asthma rates in the nation, a disparity health officials said is ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disorders could be triggered by air pollution, including the type emitted in car exhaust, a new study suggested — though it had some ...