air pollution

Smoke, ash from wildfires blanket California cities

October 11, 2017 By Combined Sources

At least 17 people have been killed, and families are frantically searching for more than 180 people who have been reported missing.

The other shoe drops: Maryland sues EPA over air quality standards

September 29, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg

Having warned Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, more than two months ago that the state would go to federal court in Baltimore unless he started following the law – and having gotten no reply at...

Fire or volcano? Ash from Oregon blaze compared to eruption

September 6, 2017 By Associated Press

People in Oregon covered their faces with scarves to keep wildfire ash from filling their lungs.

Did Republicans forget their constituents also need air and water?

February 16, 2017 By Jill Richardson

Republicans are governing as if their own constituents don’t breathe air or drink water.

Have we become OK with watching Earth melt?

November 23, 2016 By Rev. Jim Conn

If we think the ecosystem doesn’t need preserving, we won’t preserve it. If we think climate change just happens, then nothing can be done about it. But if we think humans cause it, then we can...