Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Marine pollution encompasses many types of pollution that disrupt the marine ecosystem, including chemical, light, noise, and plastic pollution.

It’s a type of plan that environmentalists, scientists and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says can be a ...

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the Environmental Protection Agency acted unlawfully in declining to update water pollution control standards for seven major industries. The ...

Additional research is underway examining other types of air pollution from the Tijuana River, including bacteria and other pathogens from sewage.

The last of these “do not drink” orders was lifted last month. But the first large-scale study of post-wildfire water quality ...

New Delhi, Nov 16 (PTI) Delhi's air quality worsened further on Saturday, with many areas in the "severe" category, even as authorities intensified their action by imposing penalties of around Rs 5 ...

Pollution and water quality have long been an issue in Biscayne Bay, where stinky fish kills have become a summer norm, and every heavy rain washes a cocktail of oil, fertilizer, and wastewater ...

White category industries are defined as those with minimal pollution potential. The CPCB introduced this classification in 2016 to reclassify industries based on their pollution potential.

Union Environment Ministry exempts 39 industries from pollution board permissions, easing compliance burden and promoting ease of doing business.

Industries falling under this category are no longer required to seek consent from Pollution Control Boards to prove that their operations do not contribute to water or air pollution.