The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

With the ignominious collapse of cap and trade legislation in the Senate, the climate campaign is licking its wounds and wondering where it went wrong. Greens are pointing fingers at the bad economy, ...

Philly Councilmember Helen Gym plans to introduce legislation Thursday that could protect already overburdened communities by keeping additional pollution out. Philadelphia Councilmember Helen Gym ...

This piece was originally published in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. The predominantly black and low-income communities living near the back-to-back petrochemical ...

RODANTHE, N.C. — Two lawmakers, one from North Carolina and the other from Maine, are teaming up to help coastal homeowners dealing with properties experiencing long-time erosion and the possibility ...

This episode is from WHRO’s Spotlight Earth series. The video explores environmental hazards. In this Spotlight Earth episode, you will explore environmental hazards that can impact our health, both ...

What are environmental health hazards? Humans share an interactive relationship with the environment. Biological, physical, chemical, biomechanical, and psychosocial factors in the environment affect ...

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Santa Barbara County just unveiled a new roadmap to protect those who suffer most from environmental hazards. The draft Environmental Justice Element was created through outreach in the county’s ...

More than half of Philadelphia’s public elementary schools have serious environmental hazards, a newspaper investigation has found. The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News reviewed ...