Pollution

Salt Lake City's west side has worse air quality than the east side — for reasons that range from a mistake made in the 1890s and decades of redlining.

Plastic is almost everywhere through its presence in packaging and all kinds of products. And little bits of it end up in our natural environment, including in the water. Scientists call them microplastics and they're showing up in Front Range watersheds.

The Diné Household Water Survey, a first-of-its-kind two-year project led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health, aims to accurately quantify the number of households without access to safe drinking water.

A new report reveals that 91% of the nation’s coal plants are heavily contaminating groundwater, and some of the most polluted sites are in the Mountain West.

Plastic has been around for a century and its environmental impacts are getting more severe. Hear from plasic experts on a recent Roaring Fork Conservancy…

The Garfield County Recycling Center along Highway 6 in Rifle is closed until further notice. According to a press release issued by the county Thursday,…

Tiny fragments broken down from larger pieces of plastic have already been found in rivers, lakes, oceans and in agricultural soil. But very few studies of wind-borne microplastic have ever been done.

The Colorado Automobile Dealers Association is going to court to try and put the brakes on regulations that will require all new cars sold in the state...

It’s been more than three years since the Animas River near Durango turned orange from the release of toxic mining chemicals. But the Gold King Mine spill…