Environment

TigerSwan, the mercenary security firm that worked to suppress the NoDAPL movement, is promoting its disaster response efforts in Houston and Puerto Rico.

The commerce secretary made a fortune selling U.S. steel companies to a foreign entity and evaded responsibility for environmental cleanup.

The state’s relationship with Energy Transfer Partners stands in stark contrast to its lack of engagement with activists opposing the Bayou Bridge pipeline.

As an expert on perfluorinated chemicals, Professor John Giesy was in a position to help 3M keep damaging papers out of the scientific literature.

While the dangers of PFOA and PFOS are widely known, very little is known about the other chemicals in their class, PFAS.

The U.S. military is spending billions to clean up drinking water contaminated with toxic firefighting foam while continuing to use dangerous new formulas.

The Integrated Risk Information System, or IRIS, is the only division of the EPA that independently assesses the toxicity of chemicals.

Ohio’s bill mirrors a model laid out by ALEC, while Iowa’s creates a new felony, “critical infrastructure sabotage,” punishable by up to 25 years in prison.

At a hearing of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee on Tuesday, the EPA's Scott Pruitt repeatedly avoided answering simple yes-or-no questions.

DuPont introduced GenX in 2009 to replace PFOA, also known as C8, a chemical it had used for decades to make Teflon and other products.