A playground north of the Oak Creek Power Plant. The federal government is cracking down on air pollution in cities like Milwaukee. Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency tightened ...

(BPT) – If your region faces the risk of wildfires during the hot, dry summer months, you may already have an emergency plan in place. But once the danger has passed, there is a list of things you ...

The Biden administration is proposing tougher standards for a deadly air pollutant, saying that reducing soot from tailpipes, smokestacks and wildfires could prevent thousands of premature deaths a ...

A home on Centennial Court in Walkers Woods is threatened as the woods catch fire behind the home. Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze. Evacuations continued over night for communities in the ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

New limits on lung-damaging soot proposed by President Joe Biden’s administration would effectively require cleaner factories, power plants and vehicles in Chicago and several other urban industrial ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- They're not visible, but they're there – particles in the air that make people sick. PM 2.5, also known as soot, are fine particles that are smaller than the diameter of a strand of ...

The Biden administration Wednesday set a new, more rigorous standard for a dangerous air pollutant that has plagued vast swaths of California for decades: Fine particles, commonly called soot. The U.S ...

MILLVALE, Pa. (AP) — How do you conserve 80-year-old murals that have accumulated decades’ worth of soot, salt and other deterioration? Slowly and carefully, using everything from scientific analysis ...