Conservation groups urge EPA to update list of toxic pollutants
The petition urges the agency to address the various categories of toxic pollutants that have been linked to cancer and many other health and environmental concerns.
Do beach cleanups really make a difference?
Cleanups can help people understand the problem and engage in solutions.
Trump EPA abandons climate working group report in endangerment finding repeal
Emails from the hand-picked, secretive group of climate crisis deniers revealed flaws in their methods and “animus” toward leading scientists.
Congress Grills ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron and the American Petroleum Institute on their roles...
DeSmog has collected short clips from some of Thursday’s most illuminating moments.
Accurate science reporting influences Americans’ climate change beliefs only briefly, study suggests
“What we found suggests that people need to hear the same accurate messages about climate change again and again. If they only hear it once, it recedes very quickly.”
Senate passes massive public lands conservation bill
The measure is the largest public lands bill considered by Congress in a decade.
‘The future of Earth is at risk’: New drone footage of deforestation in Amazon...
"Global demand for meat is destroying the Amazon rainforest."
The unexpected ways fracking affects air pollution
Fracking has led to a large increase of hydrocarbon emissions in rural areas, reversing some regional air trends.
‘It’s a proud day’: Oregon landowners celebrate demise of LNG project, even as legal...
A coalition of Oregon landowners, environmental groups, and Native tribes fended off Jordan Cove for more than a decade. But the legal implications of the project’s demise outside of Oregon are unclear.
Governments resume debate on International Seabed Authority’s practice of seabed mining
The debate on the protection of the deep sea reaches the final agenda after being blocked by pro-mining countries last year.