Banned from residences for more than half a century, lead paint still poisons thousands of children a year in New York City. Who is responsible for ensuring healthy homes for all?

Since 2009, New York City has been incentivizing private cleanup of contaminated sites. Who benefits?

After a historic oil spill and an unprecedented financial settlement, a Brooklyn community oversees its ecological repair.

In works from digital dérives to a floating opera, artists bring new perspectives to New York City's most damaged environments.

How do you respond to remediation when it falls short, again and again? For New Jersey's Ramapough Lunaape, mending the impacts of pollution on ancestral land means restoring health and indigenous culture on new ground.

Toxic industrial legacies — and their hazards — extend far beyond high-profile parcels. Measures to remediate them need to treat a broader urban landscape, too.