The hallway thermostat doesn’t know what your bedroom is doing at night
A nursery two rooms away from the thermostat can run five degrees warmer, hot enough to disrupt an infant's sleep and raise real health risk.
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California is making electricity from ocean waves, and the waves never stop
Old factory land near Iowa homes carries lead, arsenic and solvent risk
EPA plan may let diesel trucks pollute longer near your highways
Gray whales are starving to death and washing up on Washington beaches
The four ways forever chemicals reach your tap, and the machine built to end them
One in five people this seawater bacteria infects will not survive
EPA plan may let diesel trucks pollute longer near your highways
The EPA proposal ends the deratement that forced repairs when a truck's NOx controls failed, and it shortens…
The EPA finding that made federal CO2 limits possible is being rescinded
The 2009 endangerment finding is the legal basis for every federal greenhouse gas rule under the Clean Air…
Broken diesel emissions systems may no longer force trucks to slow down
EPA's proposal would replace today's forced slowdown with a warning light when a truck's emissions system fails, a…
EPA let a trade group decide whether your car parts meet emissions rules
SEMA, the aftermarket trade association, can now certify that emissions parts meet federal rules in place of EPA's…
Old factory land near Iowa homes carries lead, arsenic and solvent risk
The EPA sent $6.9 million to Keokuk, Burlington, Dyersville, Dubuque and a regional planning group to assess and…
A flesh-eating fly wiped out in the U.S. is back in Texas, and pets are at risk
Female screwworm flies lay eggs in open wounds, which can put even a small unnoticed cut on an…
Illegal bug killer sold in Atlanta stores used a restricted pesticide
Sniper was being sold over the counter even though it contained dichlorvos, a pesticide EPA has restricted over…
North Central Florida has lost 80% of its monarch butterflies
North Central Florida's monarch population has fallen 80% since 2005, with development, pesticides, and a parasite called OE…
Gray whales are starving to death and washing up on Washington beaches
Twenty-one have died on Washington shores since March, most of them emaciated, after Arctic sea ice melting early…
The four ways forever chemicals reach your tap, and the machine built to end them
A Columbus, Ohio plant runs water past 705 degrees and 3,200 pounds of pressure to snap the carbon-fluorine…
One in five people this seawater bacteria infects will not survive
Vibrio vulnificus caused just 150 to 200 US cases a year, but wound infections along the East Coast…
The EPA pulled a 27-foot abandoned boat off a Shinnecock beach
A 1,200-pound navigational buoy came off a second beach in the same operation, after more than five years…
Tornado warnings now buy you 13 minutes instead of 3
Average warning lead time has risen from 3 minutes in the 1980s to 13 today because radar can…
Inland flooding can get worse even after a tropical storm weakens
A weakening tropical storm often slows down and dumps rain over the same ground for longer, making inland…
Nighttime heat is now the dangerous part of a heat wave
A heat wave becomes most dangerous at night when a bedroom stays above 70 degrees and the body…
Heat waves are cutting people off from each other, and homes are part of why
People cancel plans and stay indoors during extreme heat, losing the everyday contact that helps protect health. The…
Every baby bottle and sippy cup tested leaked bisphenols into drinks
Every baby bottle and sippy cup tested released BPA or BPS into the liquid inside, including plain water…
Vitamins and minerals may buffer your body against endocrine-disrupting chemicals
Certain vitamins and minerals may help the body blunt some damage from endocrine-disrupting chemicals, but they don't replace…
Florida leprosy cases are rising, and armadillos may be part of why
Florida recorded 36 leprosy cases in 2025, up from 8 in 2022, and health officials say people can…
Landlords must disclose lead paint, and EPA is fining owners who don’t
A Connecticut landlord paid $359,069 after failing to disclose possible lead paint in 11 apartments where children lived…
California is making electricity from ocean waves, and the waves never stop
Solar quits at night. Wind dies on calm days. Waves keep rolling in, and the more power they…
Suspending the federal gas tax would cut prices by only 4%
Crude oil drives most of the price of a gallon, while the federal gas tax adds only 18.4…
More than 1,000 data centers are moving toward American neighborhoods
Local governments are reaching for moratoriums as more than 1,000 data center projects move toward neighborhoods across the…
When solar projects shut down, gas and coal fill the gap
Demand doesn't fall when a solar plant goes offline, so fossil-fuel plants step in to keep power flowing…
Wild pigs cost U.S. farmers up to $3.4 billion a year
USDA says the damage runs from $2.5 billion to $3.4 billion once crop losses and other property damage…
Federal law still skips Florida as gopher tortoises reach critical risk
Longleaf pine habitat is down to less than 3% of what it once was, and federal protection for…
A new federal rule removed the habitat shield that helped save bald eagles
The rule drops habitat destruction from the Endangered Species Act's definition of harm, letting developers degrade nesting and…
Free-ranging cats are killing species already at risk
Hundreds of the species cats have been documented eating are already listed as threatened or worse on the…
