Heavy metals detected in the soil have also created health implications for Monterey County’s agriculture industry, and the workers who pick the produce.

Preliminary data from the first few weeks of New York City’s tolling plan show a possible uptick in traffic in the neighborhood.

When we face some risk of a bird flu pandemic, do we want to entrust our health to a man who has fought lifesaving vaccines?

The former New York congressman has little experience in environmental policy. He is expected to follow orders to weaken climate rules.

Top political appointees are already at the E.P.A. preparing to erase the agency’s climate rules and pollution controls. Many of them have tried it before.

His executive orders ultimately seek to make the market for oil and gas as big as possible.

The findings give new insight into the dangers of urban wildfires that burn plastics and other chemicals in homes and property.

Hino Motors, a Toyota subsidiary, will plead guilty to conspiracy charges and pay penalties for deceiving regulators about its diesel engines, the E.P.A. said.

Mr. Zeldin, a Trump loyalist, would be charged with dismantling climate rules and perhaps the agency itself. He faced questions from the Senate Thursday.

Health hazards from soot and smoke blown indoors onto furniture and walls can linger for months, researchers say: “Wind will get through every crack.”

State regulators said the measures would probably have been rejected by the Trump administration and that they would focus on homegrown legal strategies instead.

Levels of PFAS in sewage sludge used as fertilizer can pose risks that sometimes exceed safety thresholds “by several orders of magnitude,” the agency said.

Researchers see a growing health danger from the vast plumes of pollution spawned by wildfires like the ones devastating Los Angeles.

Can a city lose an entire neighborhood now and simply shuffle on, dragging the local memory like a ghost limb?

Charging drivers to enter Lower Manhattan vindicates the lifelong mission of a Nobel laureate who, as it happened, died behind the wheel of a car.

It’s widely used because it can slow flames in ways that water can’t. But it also contains heavy metals and other harmful compounds.

Wastewater, even after treatment to make it drinkable, contains high levels of PFAS, according to researchers.

With a lucrative tax credit, the Biden administration is hoping to establish a new industry that might help fight climate change.

Human rights organizations and residents describe the situation in the enclave as getting more desperate. Here is a closer look.