A new law gives companies a simple way to raise the bar for lawsuits. A phosphate mining company lobbied for it.

In Renca, Chile, the Cerros de Renca Metropolitan Park reuses industrial wastewater to address a local water crisis. Renca’s mayor, Claudio Castro, has worked for a decade to attract international ...

It’s been a wild first half of the year in the U.S. power sector, with announcements of gigantic natural gas power plants and some long-awaited renewable energy projects coming online. At times of ...

The Sand Creek Fire had grown to 27,736 acres on Thursday after burning through parts of Maverick Mountain Ski Area in southwestern Montana, but firefighters succeeded in protecting the ski lodge and ...

John Durnell just wanted to make things around his St. Louis neighborhood look a little nicer. So, on occasion, he’d spray a bit of Roundup in the obvious places—along weedy sidewalks and in public ...

Prolonged heatwaves pushed death tolls to new levels this year in Maryland, which recorded its highest number of heat-related deaths with more than a month left of summer. At least 70 deaths across ...

Households near the reserve burn plastic waste, releasing pollutants that travel by air and settle on the leaves the monkeys ...

Environmental justice advocates see his new executive order as a step in the right direction as national opposition to the ...

The tools the environmental justice movement spent decades building are being pulled apart. The Biden administration’s ...

Gas makes up nearly half of the 200-plus gigawatts lined up for a grid-connection study. But PJM’s own record shows most ...

SAN DIEGO—On a walk near his house, with views of the ocean, Mark Ellis speaks with urgency about how the utility business—the industry that long employed him—is harming the public with unsustainable ...

A new peer-reviewed study suggests that productivity for fossil fuel companies boosted by AI tools will increase global emissions by nearly 5 percent.