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Fresh Fruit and Vegetables being shot as they submerged under water. So fresh and delicious. This idea can also be use to show washing food before being process further.
Health

How to properly wash fruits and vegetables

By Debbie Wolfe

Green architecture homes
Technology

The EPA wants to tighten up their ‘zero-emission’ building definition

By Andrew Paul

Someone filling a glass of water probably wondering if there are PFAS in it.
DIY

2 ways of knowing if there are PFAS in your drinking water

By Shi En Kim

EPA plan to eliminate lead in buildings could help half a million young children
Health

EPA plan to eliminate lead in buildings could help half a million young children

By Kate Yoder/Grist

person opening faucet with water flowing
DIY

PFAS are toxic and they’re everywhere. Here’s how to stay away from them.

By Sofia Quaglia

Lit wood stove emitting air pollution
Environment

An EPA fix for pollution-spewing wood stoves is backfiring

By Diana Kruzman / Undark

Tesla fremont factory
Environment

Tesla got fined for polluting (again)

By Colleen Hagerty

This Roundup ingredient is riddled with controversy—here’s why
Environment

This Roundup ingredient is riddled with controversy—here’s why

By Isobel Whitcomb

A bird's eye view of white tanks containing gasoline at a refinery.
Environment

The new infrastructure bill will fund pollution cleanup. But will it hold polluters accountable?

By Philip Kiefer

PFAS are everywhere—and the EPA has a new plan to fight back
Environment

PFAS are everywhere—and the EPA has a new plan to fight back

By Angely Mercado

fridge
Health

The EPA is cracking down on more of the greenhouse gases in your fridge

By Hannah Seo

White birds on a pink, purple, and green illustration of the Fukushima nuclear plant
Environment

5 famous environmental disasters where humans and nature healed together

By Meera Subramanian

Person filling up water bottle at kitchen sink with tap water.
DIY

Simple, at-home tests can check your air and water for contaminants

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

smoke rising from smokestack
Environment

Cracking down on soot pollution could save thousands of lives—but the EPA won’t do it

By Ula Chrobak

Maria Caffrey
Environment

Meet the former government officials who quit or retired to protest ‘blatant disregard’ of science

By Starre Vartan & Jenny Morber/Undark

smoke stacks from energy plant
Environment

Prosecutions under the Clean Air and Water acts dropped in half after Trump took office

By Ula Chrobak

Environmental Protection Agency
Environment

Fossil fuel companies don’t have to clean up their methane emissions anymore

By Jeremy Deaton/Nexus Media News

flooded street
Environment

Toxic waste sites aren’t prepared for hurricane season

By Greta Moran

A sockeye salmon in very shallow water.
Environment

Local opposition to Alaska’s Pebble Mine grows as the project reaches the next milestone

By Bjorn Dihle/ Outdoor Life

Smoke stack emitting pollution
Environment

Here’s how many pollution-related deaths your state is exporting or importing

By Ula Chrobak