Twenty environmental, justice, and conservation groups are urging California to stay the course on air, public health, and climate regulations as industry groups push for delays, rollbacks, or weakening of rules during the coronavirus outbreak.
House Democrats from districts reliant on oil and gas production are distancing themselves from a new bill to ban fracking even though the measure is unlikely to gain any traction in Congress.
Federal appeals court judges grappled Thursday with the EPA’s insistence that a recent ruling doesn’t apply to the agency’s refusal to tackle upwind sources of ozone-forming pollution drifting into downwind states.
The EPA didn't have air quality monitoring procedures in place for Houston when Hurricane Harvey hit in 2017, and wasn't able to inform the public adequately about storm-related toxic pollution from industrial sites, the EPA Office of Inspector General has said.
Global hunger and malnutrition are on the rise, as are temperatures and water shortages. Humanity must adapt crops to the changing climate by breeding hardier plants, but political and commercial interests continue to stymie those efforts.
The Supreme Court is set to decide soon whether to greenlight state-court proceedings for several cases in which state and local government officials seek to hold oil companies accountable for their role in climate change.
