Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Large industrial facilities like this oil refinery outside Houston are major sources of fine particulate air pollution. AP ...

When making rules on fine particulate matter and ozone limits, the EPA will no longer calculate the monetary value of lives saved due to lowering these air pollutants, according to The New York Times.

Air pollution remains a grave threat to human health, but MAHA is doing nothing about it.

When I worked for the Environmental Protection Agency in the 2010s as an Obama administration appointee, I helped write and ...

MADRID — Fine particulate matter pollution in the atmosphere around homes and workplaces increases the risk for breast cancer, according to a new analysis of the XENAIR study presented at the European ...

Polluted air causes an estimated 7 million deaths worldwide each year, according to the World Health Organization. Much of ...

A team digging into PM2.5 — those tiny particles linked to breathing issues — is now looking at whether vitamin C has anything to do with how our lungs handle everyday pollution.

BIRMINGHAM, England — Next time you’re stuck in traffic breathing in exhaust fumes or walking past a construction site filled with dust, you might want to consider how those particles floating through ...

The EPA recently announced stronger standards for fine particulate matter, described as reducing pollution by airborne "soot." However, an examination of its supporting documentation reveals a lack of ...

Chronic exposure to pollution from wildfires has been linked to tens of thousands of deaths annually in the United States, ...

County officials say the 24-hour PM2.5 standard for the Mon Valley has been exceeded at an official monitoring station in the ...