Republican U.S. Rep. Greg Stanton of Arizona and Democratic U.S. Rep. Dina Titus have cosponsored the Extreme Weather and Heat Response Modernization Act — a bill that would allow the president to declare extreme heat a major disaster.
A federal agency will offer tens of thousands of acres in northwestern Colorado that the nation’s largest elk herd relies upon for migration, foraging and winter habitat to oil and gas companies.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this spring proposed loosening environmental regulations on dump sites for coal ash, aiming to meet the energy industry’s request for more flexibility.
Climate change is not some distant, future threat, it's being felt now all across Maryland, which is why the federal government's decision to do away with the endangerment finding needs to be fought.
The Republican appropriations bill for the Interior Department proposes per-turbine fees for wind projects, potentially boosting those costs much higher.
A new Trump administration rule will likely cost consumers more money while creating higher emissions of climate-warming superpollutants, industry and environmental groups warn.
This month, a North Dakota court barred Greenpeace from saying what it wanted in a European court, an unusual move. The environmental group says it is forging ahead.
The so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center could be pumping hundreds of tons of toxic gases into the atmosphere without a permit, Florida environmentalists suing the state claimed in a new court filing.
A new report from the United Nations weather agency gives a three-out-of-four chance that the next five years will average more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures.
