The new Affordable Clean Energy rule allows states to set their own goals for greenhouse gas emissions.

The Environmental Protection Agency's internal watchdog wants to hear from East Chicago residents about how well the agency communicates information on the USS Lead Superfund site.

The Environmental Protection Agency is taking steps to improve communication with Franklin residents. People living in Franklin believe that toxic chemicals coming from the old Amphenol industrial site may be causing child cancers in the area.

Water quality trading allows someone like a farmer to get credits for reducing runoff on their land that they can then sell to buyers like wastewater treatment plants, developers, and cities.

About $14 million will be divided among roughly 30 projects targeting excess nutrients and storm water, which feed harmful algae blooms and otherwise degrade water quality.

The citys wellfield is contaminated with PCE, a cancer-causing chemical used to degrease metal and in dry cleaning.

The World Health Organization lists glyphosate as a probable carcinogen the same classification as the toxic pesticide DDT.

More than 1,000 people were forced from the West Calumet Housing Complex in 2016 after tests found high blood-lead levels in children.

The Environmental Protection Agency issued a memo this week saying contamination in groundwater that feeds into rivers, streams, and lakes doesnt need to be regulated under the Clean Water Act.

EPA soil remediation began in 2016. Its cleaned up nearly 600 residential properties. There are 170 additional properties slated for cleanup.