BeyondKONA: Politics & Policy

Thousands of veterans say toxic smoke from trash fires at their military bases made them sick. […]

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler says that unsafe drinking water -- not climate change -- poses the greatest and most immediate […]

Repeated studies find no conclusive link between the TMI accident and public health. But those conclusions don’t satisfy those who live around the plant […]

Fossil fuel trade groups don't want the EPA to update a 1970s-era list of polluting petroleum chemicals. […]

As U.S. regulators continue to dance around the issue of testing foods for residues of glyphosate weed killers, government scientists in Canada have found the […]

Extreme weather is raising the stakes at military bases across the nation, but preparations for the changing climate have often been slow. […]

UC Berkeley sociologist Arlie Hochschild traveled to Louisiana, the second-poorest state, to explore why its neediest populations simultaneously rely on […]

Disasters like oil spills pollute the ocean and kill marine life. Since 1967, there have been more than 9,500 tanker oil spills around the globe. […]

Once known as the Steel City, Pittsburgh is shedding its polluted past and embracing a rebirth built on health care, education, and technology. But the […]

Documents indicate Sunoco has a new maximum operating pressure for the line, which is under construction. An engineer who conducted a risk assessment of the […]

The Bramble Cay melomys, a tiny island rodent, was wiped out by sea-level rise, according to the government of Australia. […]

Past disasters point to steps cities and counties can take to bolster their resilience. […]

Maersk A/S is about to conduct the shipping industry's biggest test yet of biofuel as it seeks to cut emissions and meet its target of becoming carbon-neutral […]

Walking along a wooden path winding through Nease Beachfront Park, Danny Lippi pointed to coastal trees sprouting from the shrubbery around him. The exotic […]

They could vanish in 50 years – or be protected by "wildlife corridors," researchers say. […]

Officials had told residents to stay indoors for the second time in a week after a large chemical fire erupted at a storage tank on Sunday. […]

Along the Missouri, John Remus controls a network of dams that dictates the fate of millions. ‘It was not designed to handle this.&rsquo […]

The stage is set for unprecedented flooding this spring for most of the nation, U.S. weather officials said Thursday. […]

In one of the most water-poor regions of the world, the Jordan River valley, predictions of future droughts depend on the scale of climate change. […]

More than 300 mountaineers have died on the peak and two-thirds of bodies have still not been recovered. […]

A two-year study, published March 14, finds that field-relevant contamination with the neonicotinoid insecticide imidacloprid causes reduced body weight and […]

Tyson Foods is recalling about 69,093 pounds of frozen chicken strip products that may be contaminated with pieces of metal, the U.S. Department of […]

Tens of thousands of people died because carmakers felt so free, for so long, to flout the law. […]

The ‘Dieselgate’ scandal was suppressed for years – while we should have been driving electric cars. By Beth GardinerJohn German had not been […]

A marine mammal scientist in Vancouver says he thinks his work has been misrepresented online and he's worried it's part of a trend that has him and his […]

At a legislative event, parallels are drawn between the current PFAS crisis and the '70s PBB disaster. […]

While there are health advisories for two types of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances for groundwater near the former Badger Army Ammunition site, testing […]

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board announced Thursday it would be investigating the ITC Deer Park fire, as some local leaders grow exasperated with the company's […]

Scientists report evidence that Colorado's Front Range tundra emits more CO2 than it absorbs each year. […]

The real risks from chemicals in our food—for farmworkers and children, in particular—are being ignored. […]

The city of Superior agreed this week to work with federal, state and private partners on a roughly $18.5 million project to clean up contamination in Howards […]

Western Australian government to compulsorily acquire properties in deadly Pilbara site, where there are fears for tourists who still visit the areaLandowners […]

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Images show marine biologist removing 88lb worth of plastic bags from stomach of whale that died in Philippines of ‘gastric shock’Warning: this […]

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Traffic pollution is putting our children at risk. We meet campaigners – many of them concerned mothers – fighting backIn the winter you can taste […]

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Ten years after climate movie The Age of Stupid had its green-carpet, solar-powered premiere, we follow its director as she revisits people and places […]

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