environment

A group of 16 young people in Montana will take the stand in June in the case of Held v. State of Montana over their constitutional right to a clean environment.

Perhaps the most unlikely feature of high-stakes budget negotiations going on in Washington is a debate over permitting. That’s essentially the regulatory process for deciding what gets built where. It could be power plants, transmission lines or other projects.

An unexpected visitor spotted sunbathing on a beach in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv is turning heads and causing a media buzz. But it’s not American film director and Tel Aviv mainstay Quentin Tarantino or another celebrity. It’s Yulia, an endangered Mediterranean monk seal. The seal cow first appeared south of Tel Aviv’s main beachfront last Friday, drawing clusters...

The Environmental Protection Agency could force American power plants to capture smokestack emissions using technology that isn’t in widespread use. If finalized, the rule would mark the first time the government has restricted carbon dioxide emissions.

A legal dispute in Montana could drastically curb the government’s use of aerial fire retardant to combat wildfires.

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that would create the White House Office of Environmental Justice.

The Biden administration has identified more than 175,000 square miles of old growth and mature forests on U.S. government lands.

California and other parts of the western United States had the country’s worst air pollution, even as air quality overall improved in 2019 through 2021, according to the latest report from the American Lung Association.

The NTT IndyCar Series is addressing environmental issues on and off the track with renewable race fuel, innovative tires and more.

Congress on Wednesday approved a resolution to overturn the Biden administration’s protections for thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways.

Water containing a radioactive material has leaked for a second time from a nuclear plant near Minneapolis and the plant will be shut down, but there is no danger to the public.

A helicopter with a shooter will fly over a portion of the vast Gila Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico next week, searching for feral cows to kill.

The Biden administration has 30 days to issue a final decision on whether to approve the Willow oil drilling project in Alaska.

Add Burning Man to the list of plaintiffs challenging one of the growing number of “green energy” projects in the works in Nevada.

Brazil´s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday that Amazon activist Marina Silva will be the country´s next minister of environment.

A new report from the United Nations says countries are bending the curve of global greenhouse gas emissions downward, but plans remain insufficient to limit global temperature rise.

A new report from the United Nations says countries are bending the curve of global greenhouse gas emissions downward, but plans remain insufficient to limit global temperature rise. Kari Hall reports.

Breathing cleaner air is vital to your long-term health, so expect benefits if you live in one of these seven least polluted U.S. states, a new report says.

Now that he’s monarch, King Charles III — one of Britain’s most prominent environmental voices — will be have to be more careful with his words.

A five-year report says Australia’s environment continues to deteriorate due to climate change, resource extraction and other causes.