Community-led monitoring of deforestation might not reduce forest use overall, but merely displace it to unmonitored areas, a new study finds. The peer-reviewed study, by researchers including Dr.

Community groups are suing the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality over a new law that could prevent them from publicly sharing their air monitoring data. Conducting their own air monitoring ...

In communities, health is a product of many factors, and many segments of the community can contribute to and share responsibility for its protection and improvement. Changes in public policy, in ...

Over recent decades, community-based environmental monitoring (often called "citizen science") has exploded in popularity, aided both by smartphones and rapid gains in computing power that make the ...

The agency is preparing to expand the role of citizens to detect methane leaks at oil and gas wells at the edges of communities. When EPA issues its supplemental draft rule on methane later this year, ...

New results from an independent community air quality monitoring site in Commerce City show that air pollution levels there tend to be higher than other comparable metro area sites to the northwest of ...

The Cherokee Forest neighborhood in Pascagoula, Mississippi sits next to an industrial park housing a refinery, a shipbuilding yard, a superfund site, a gas processing plant, and more. Cherokee ...

When Debra Walker installed an air monitor in the front yard of her home in Sunnyside a few months ago, she initially got some weird looks from her neighbors. "People thought they were cameras — you ...

As the analysis and examples in this report have demonstrated, a wide array of factors influences a community's health, and many entities in the community share responsibility for maintaining and ...