air pollution

As Traverse City grows, its tree canopy is shrinking. The city is trying to protect trees in city limits, but no one can agree on the best way to do…

Air quality has gotten better in the U.S. over the last several decades. But more recently, nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide emissions have not been...

Long-term exposure to certain kinds of air pollution increases the risk of premature death in Americans over 65 years old. That finding holds true even...

With thousands of tons of trash burned every day, Detroit has the largest urban incinerator in the country. Now its long and controversial history has...

The Marathon Petroleum refinery in southwest Detroit is no stranger to controversy. But its request to increase sulfur dioxide emissions has sparked a...

It’s possible to track air pollution from space. NASA scientists did that with high-resolution satellite maps. To gather the data, they used an ozone...

The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with the state of Michigan, other states, and industry groups in a challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s...

The landmark 2012 Clean Air Act was the nation's first action focusing on greenhouse gases, with the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half...

A team of researchers in Spain attached sensors to school age kids. Then, they used a smartphone to track how much air pollution (black carbon, a...

Economists often argue that we should use the market to fight climate change. Cap-and-trade legislation died in Congress back in 2010. Some people...