U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Breathing Acid? That's So 2003!

NY Pans Another EPA 9-11 Plan

Waste Deep in the Big Muddy: Reps Seek Superfund for Newtown Creek

State Joins City in Ozone Emissions Suit vs. US EPA

Governor Proclaims "Change a Light Day New York"

New York Schools Surprisingly Non-Polluted

City Battles Bedbugs with Board

The city is finally confronting its greatest menace: bedbugs. After hearings on the growing pestilence, the city council has called for a Bed Bug Advisory Board. Its sometimes poetic bill finds "that the Cimex lectularius population is ubiquitous and affects the quality of life of residents througho ... More >>

Mercury in Fish? Baloney!

Lobbyist tells pregnant women to eat more tuna

Sierra Club Scores Shrub's First 100 Days

Prez Not All Bad on Environment. Just Mostly.

Truth Out

Sick of being lied to by the EPA, 9-11 plaintiffs use the courts to force the answers they seek

Tobacco Row

Sick of being lied to by the EPA, 9-11 plaintiffs use the courts to force the answers they seek

Nation

Sick of being lied to by the EPA, 9-11 plaintiffs use the courts to force the answers they seek

Read My Rips

Clinton Confronts Governors

Alien Toxins

Area 51's Sci-Fi Folklore Masks a Truly Spooky Reality

Green With Envy

Pataki Wrestles Spitzer for Eco-Laurels

Nation

Pataki Wrestles Spitzer for Eco-Laurels

Prez Wakes Up in Wonderful World

Friends and Foes Hail Bush, the Conquering Hero

Mutant Malathion

How New York’s Mosquito-Spray Campaign Spawned a Deadly Neurotoxin

Agent Orange, All Over Again

EPA Stalled Resolution on Spraying in Colombia

The Climes They Are A-Changin'

The Indisputable Science of Global Warming

Bio-Whatchamacallit

Tom Ridge's 'Crazy' Plan to Watch the Sky for Spores

Spoon-Feeding Poison

EPA Opens the Door to Testing Bug Killers on People

Death by Dust

The frightening link between the 9-11 toxic cloud and cancer

Coal Dirt Cheap

New EPA Rule Threatens to Increase Local Pollution

Editorial Flip-Flop

Daily News Revives Buried Scoop

The 10 Ways Bush Screwed New York

A presidential potpourri of cuts, blunders, stonewalls, deceptions, and distractions

Burning for Bush

Misled over air quality, shortchanged in federal funding, union wants four more years

Dusted

Long after 9-11, some people say the dust is still making them sick. Now they want the EPA to do something about it.

Storm Front

In global warming's kitchen, hurricanes love the heat

The 10 Ways Bush Screwed New York

A presidential potpourri of cuts, blunders, stonewalls, deceptions, and distractions

Open and Shut

Four years later, we still have ten big questions

Still Dusted

Clinton, Nadler call for investigation of EPA response to 9-11

EPA Screws New York

New plan for cleaning up 9-11 toxins worse than the old one

Some Kids Left Behind

Stuyvesant alums finally join the fight for 9-11 health benefits

The Starting Line

At Baruch, campus entrepreneurs scratch their itch to get businesses off the ground

While Schumer Slept

For five years, New York's senior senator said nothing about the toxic cloud that hung over his own constituents.

Letters

For five years, New York's senior senator said nothing about the toxic cloud that hung over his own constituents.

Letters

For five years, New York's senior senator said nothing about the toxic cloud that hung over his own constituents.

The Haze Over 43rd Street

Will the New York Times ever own up to the failures of its early ground zero health coverage?

EPA warns about oil drilling in NYC watershed

​The EPA is warning the state Department of Environmental Conservation that they need to do a lot more homework before they finalize the rules for natural gas drilling in the city's upstate watershed.

There's Poo In Your Coke; Smoky Foods May Be Toxic

​Curtis Allina, the candy company executive responsible for the modern Pez dispenser, has died at age 87. The former vice-president of what is now Pez Candy helped develop the first character dispensers, which became highly collectible. [NY Times] A recent study reveals that nearly half of al ... More >>

Watch Sam Champion Take a Dive in the Oil-Infested Gulf (Video)

​If you had any doubt that oil and water don't mix ... here's your incontrovertible proof: Watch as Philippe Cousteau Jr. and Sam Champion "take a hazmat dive" into the Gulf -- a dip that seems to indicate that the toxic dispersant that BP has continued to use despite EPA demands doesn't even ... More >>

Today in Cool Things: Floating Swimming Pools!

​A group of architects and designers has come up with the (totally rad) idea of building a floating swimming pool ( Pool) somewhere around Manhattan. And it wouldn't just be one swimming pool, but four! We had a brief, crazy moment of thinking, "What's the point of having a pool if there's ... More >>

BP Ever So Slightly Vindicated for One Bad Thing

​Remember early on in the history of the oil spill (which started 105 days ago today)? Mistakes were being made so rapidly as to almost be comical, if not for all of those highly unfunny photos of birds doused in oil and the sinking feeling that the Gulf was destroyed forever. And then there w ... More >>

3 Billion and Counting Plays the Blame Game

​Remember early on in the history of the oil spill (which started 105 days ago today)? Mistakes were being made so rapidly as to almost be comical, if not for all of those highly unfunny photos of birds doused in oil and the sinking feeling that the Gulf was destroyed forever. And then there w ... More >>

Gowanus Canal Is Totally Grody, Finds EPA

​After a yearlong evaluation of Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, the EPA has released their report on the levels of contamination in the waterway. The results, published yesterday, aren't good for the Superfund site. Two suspected carcinogens -- PAHs and PCBs -- were found to be "widespread" in the ... More >>

Toxic PCBs Found in New York Public Schools

alamosbasement​Low levels of PCBs, a chemical compound linked to cancer, have been found in public schools across New York. The New York Times reports leaky light ballasts are to blame. Parents are being told that there is no immediate danger, but that long-term exposure could increase health ... More >>

Frack! EPA Voices Concerns About Hydraulic Fracturing

www.geograph.ie​The Environmental Protection Agency says that New York should set limits to the amount of radiation that can be in fracking wastewater before the drilling starts, according to The Associated Press [via The Wall Street Journal]. The EPA announcement comes just as the state's D ... More >>

Gross Gowanus Canal: Cleanup Conversations Continue

​The Gowanus Canal, which has the unique honor(?) of being one of the few water bodies in America that can kill a baby whale, might soon lose its century-old street cred as a cesspool for industrial waste. Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency met with area residents and shared its ... More >>

Gasland Filmmaker Joshua Fox Arrested at Fracking Hearing, by Order of House Republicans

​In an unprecedented move, House Republicans had a filmmaker arrested yesterday after he showed up to a public congressional hearing. The House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment was meeting to discuss the controversial topic of hydraulic fracturing, colloquially known as "fracking." When ... More >>