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Topic: Pollution (page 4)

The California Condor is the largest bird in North America. They are endangered species. (Getty Images/Weili Li)

Condors return, lead poisoning persists

Juliet Grable - The Revelator
Cooking Popcorn In The Microwave (Getty Images / Roberto Pangiarella / EyeEm)

Microwave popcorn's toxic secret

Matthew Rozsa
Heating and Cooling Technician Performing Scheduled Heat Pump Unit Service (Getty Images/welcomia)

Regulators spur conversion to heat pumps

Siri Chilukuri - Grist
Doctor with protective gloves prepares to examine a pregnant woman (Getty Iimages/SDI Productions)

Nonstick chemicals affecting pregnancies

Matthew Rozsa
Close view on the green young corn and some fertilizers (Getty Images/i-Stockr)

What to do if there's lead in your soil

Yvette Cabrera - Grist
A flame burns a tree during a forest fire in Cebreros on July 18, 2022 in Avila, Spain. Wildfires have broken out across Spain and southern Europe amid a severe heatwave. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

UN: A "livable future" is on the line

Joseph Winters - Grist
Exhaust air rises from the chimneys of the Moorburg coal-fired power plant into the sky. (Christian Charisius/picture alliance via Getty Images)

EPA cracks down on coal power pollution

Akielly Hu - Grist
Rush hour with taxis, bicyclists and people (Getty Images/Marco_Piunti)

Driving as a form of class privilege

Matthew Rozsa
The waters of Lake Michigan crashes over the pedestrian walk as fog rolls through the Chicago skyline in Chicago, Illinois. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

Chicagoans sue Army over pollution

Siri Chilukuri - Grist
Faucet with Water Drip (Getty Images)

EPA proposes PFAS limits for water

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Egyptian volunteers arrange sacks with plastic waste to build the world's largest plastic pyramid on September 17, 2022 in Giza, Egypt. (Fadel Dawod/Getty Images)

Plastic waste exports underestimated

Joseph Winters - Grist
U.S. President Joe Biden (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Biden breaks pledge, OKs oil venture

Jake Bittle - Grist
The Space Needle and downtown Seattle (Getty Images/Adam Schmid)

Wash. state raised $300M for climate

Kate Yoder - Grist
Pregnant Belly | Microplastics (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Nanoplastics pose threat to fetuses

Nicole Karlis
Fish and plastic (Getty Images/Sergi Escribano)

Plastic pollution is filtering into fish

Matthew Rozsa
Sun beams shinning underwater on the tropical coral reef (Getty Images/Tunatura)

Historic UN treaty would protect oceans

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Seagull carrying a plastic cup (Getty Images/Robert Pleško)

Birds are eating way too much plastic

Troy Farah
A cemetery stands in stark contrast to the chemical plants that surround it October 15, 2013. 'Cancer Alley' is one of the most polluted areas of the United States and lies along the once pristine Mississippi River that stretches some 80 miles from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, where a dense concentration of oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and other chemical industries reside alongside suburban homes. (Giles Clarke/Getty Images)

Justice Dept. sues Louisiana polluters

Lylla Younes - Grist
Officials continue to conduct operation and inspect the area after the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, United States on February 17, 2023. (US Environmental Protection Agency / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Expert assesses risk in East Palestine

Andrew J. Whelton - The Conversation
Semi Truck on I-5 (Getty Images)

Gabriela Aoun Angueira
Drone footage shows the freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, U.S., February 6, 2023 in this screengrab obtained from a handout video released by the NTSB. (National Transportation Safety Board/WikiCommons)

The major public health disaster in Ohio

Troy Farah
Sterigenics, a medical device sterilization facility in Vernon, California. (Dan Ross/Capital & Main)

Calif. let polluters exceed EPA limits

Dan Ross - Capital & Main
Okefenokee Swamp (Getty Images/James Randklev)

Georgia swamp threatened by Trump policy

Jessie Blaeser - Grist
Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters Building in Washington DC (Getty Images)

In rare veto, EPA halts Alaska mine

Jessie Blaeser - Grist
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