Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four communities in Kern County are targeted for mobile air-quality monitoring vehicles that will collect pollution data, part of ...

The Benicia Community Air Monitoring Program is hosting a public forum Thursday at the Benicia Library to help address the concerns about increased toxins in our environment, including those released ...

FILE - The community of Geismar is seen in the shadow of a chemical and petroleum industrial corridor, that is a known source of ethylene oxide emissions, in Ascension Parish, La., Friday, June 7, ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — On days of heavy pollution in Sulphur, a southwest Louisiana town surrounded by more than 16 industrial plants, Cynthia “Cindy” Robertson once flew a red flag outside her home so ...