Explainer

Environmental justice is an important part of the struggle to improve and maintain a clean and healthful environment, especially for those who have traditionally lived, worked and played closest to the sources of pollution.

Clean diesel is an object lesson on "too good to be true." Any kind of diesel exhaust is truly terrible—both for the environment and for our health.

This toxic herbicide comes with known health risks, but it’s still being used on crops, in parks, and maybe even in your own backyard.

Years later, not much has changed—including the impulse to drill.

As the country's economy improves—and temperatures rise—tens of millions of people are installing air conditioners. That spells trouble for climate change.

Recurring drought in the Golden State has convinced most of us that there’s simply not enough water to go around. But that’s actually not true.

We've already wrecked the Gulf of Mexico. Why would we do the same on the East Coast?

Five reasons drilling in the Arctic is a bad idea.

It’s not just climate change that’s killing this iconic endangered species. Hunting is on the rise, too.

Now deemed national monuments, these natural beauties will be protected for generations.