A federal judge in Washington is weighing whether President Donald Trump exceeded his authority by freezing $3 billion in climate-justice funds intended to shield flood-prone Appalachian towns.Charles ...

A truck-size atomic power unit slated for an Idaho gold mine signals a broader bid to scatter hundreds of mini-reactors across the United States.Evan Halper reports for The Washington Post.In short:At ...

A little-noticed spending rider that would freeze pesticide label updates has put House Republicans at odds with the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) coalition that helped return Donald Trump to the ...

As United Nations negotiators debate a plastics treaty in Geneva, Nairobi’s landfill pickers say corporate “plastic credits” are stripping away the bottles they depend on for income.Benard Ogembo, ...

Experts and Hiroshima survivors say the world is closer to nuclear arms use than at any time since the Cold War, yet public pressure for disarmament has faded.Padraig Moran reports for CBC Radio.In ...

A lightning-sparked blaze near the North Rim has torched more than 123,000 acres since July 4, forcing Grand Canyon National Park to close for the remainder of the season with firefighters holding ...

Young, right-leaning activists trying to green the GOP are colliding with a White House that is selling off public lands and ...

West Virginia’s 240,000 public-school students returned Aug. 1 to cafeterias stripped of the seven synthetic dyes long common ...

Under new U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rules quietly issued this summer, states and cities must certify they do not boycott Israeli companies before receiving disaster aid.Maxine ...

A global study warns that rampant groundwater pumping is accelerating drought, fueling sea level rise, and threatening food ...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin moved Tuesday to revoke the 2009 greenhouse-gas “endangerment finding,” ...

Developers are rushing to build massive data centers in the arid West, driving up electricity and water use and prompting ...