A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to abandon a Biden-era rule that ...

The D.C. Circuit rejected a challenge from states and industry groups, leaving the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for fine particulate matter in place as litigation over implementation ...

Soot, made up of tiny toxic particles that lodge deep in the lungs, results in severe health harms, including premature death.

In a blow to the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda, a federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Environmental ...

Billions upon billions of soot particles enter Earth's atmosphere each second, totaling about 5.8 million metric tons a year—posing a climate-warming impact previously estimated at almost one-third ...

Soot is one of the world's worst contributors to climate change. Its impact is similar to global methane emissions and is second only to carbon dioxide in its destructive potential. This is because ...

The exhaust from diesel-fueled vehicles, wood fires and coal-driven power stations contains small particles of soot that flow out into the atmosphere. The soot is a scourge for the climate but also ...

A massive simulation of soot's climate effects finds that basic pollution controls could put a brake on global warming, erasing in a decade most of the last century's temperature change. Compared to ...

Soot particles from oil and wood heating systems as well as road traffic can pollute the air in Europe on a much larger scale than previously assumed. The evaluation of the sources during a measuring ...

Whether it comes from a burnt candlewick, a fireplace, or that fire pit you've been holding all your socially distanced gatherings around this spring, soot can leave one heck of a stain. As much as ...