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Air quality levels have been bad in Accra since December as harmattan season kicks in across Ghana. The data coming in shows the situation is not improving.

Hazy skies over Accra: Harsh harmattan season in Ghana leads to health hazards, poor air quality

Climate Change

Severe, dry winds during the harmattan season are not new in Ghana. But experts with the country’s environmental agency say climate change is intensifying these weather conditions, leading to increased respiratory problems and poor air quality in Accra, the country’s capital. 

Three pick-up trucks drive down a wet road passing a street sign indicating the intersection of Coal Street and Main Street in Keystone, West Virginia, 2018.

What’s the EPA’s changing relationship with science?

Environment
Harley-Davidson motorcycles on display at the company’s headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. An EPA penalty of $15 million for selling emissions defeat devices was decreased by $3 million under the Trump administration in December 2017.

Environmental prosecutions under Trump projected to be the lowest in two decades

Global Politics
Leaded gas sign

EPA budget cuts threaten programs to reduce kids’ exposure to lead paint

Health
Pruitt

EPA administrator Scott Pruitt is not making anyone happy right now

Environment
Attorney General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma (c) at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Pruitt, who Donald Trump has nominated to run the Environmental Protection Agency, is a fierce critic of the EPA in general and its efforts to cut c

With Trump’s EPA pick, the prospects for stopping dangerous global warming just got a lot cooler

Environment

A fox in the hen house? With Donald Trump’s selection of Scott Pruitt to run the EPA, rejection of the reality of climate change could become official US policy.

The World

Sustainable Science at EPA

After decades of focus on how much harm to allow to the environment, the top scientist, Paul Anastas, wants to make principles of sustainability the north star guiding the agency. To do that, Anastas draws on his experience as a pioneer in the field of gr