pollution

The City of New Haven has installed air quality monitors at sites near major transportation hubs across the city.

Kimberly-Clark has manufactured paper products in New Milford since the 1950s. Residents in the surrounding area claim the company has used PFAS in its manufacturing process, polluting the community in the process.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to be more aggressive when it comes to plastic waste and pollution.

At least a dozen areas around the airport have hosted sensors the size of miniature refrigerators that measure air pollution as planes take off. The goal is to use the data in conversations with local leaders.

A total of $5.2 million from NOAA will fund research activities to reduce land-based sources of marine debris in rivers and coastal waterways in New York.

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has appointed 18 members to the state’s new environmental justice council.

Transportation is responsible for about 40% of regional carbon emissions. The American Lung Association said electrifying vehicles nationwide is an effort to protect public health in addition to slowing climate change.

The state energy and technology committee, alongside the transportation committee, voted on legislation in support of energy resilience this week, moving multiple bills to the state House and Senate.

The attorneys general asked the EPA to tighten rules on nitrogen oxide output by heavy-duty vehicles — like semi-tractor trailers and buses.

A waste-to-energy plant operator on Long Island wants to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that claims it dumped toxic ash across parts of Suffolk County.A…