A looming new water quality standard for the Florida Everglades culminates nearly 40 years of litigation and restoration work. A new report says the water is still polluted.

A Baltimore church is using green space to combat flooding and other environmental threats.

A new Florida animal attraction is importing wild sloths from South America. As dozens die, the business continues to acquire more.

Researchers warn that the great white shark—the ocean’s fastest and most formidable predator—might also be the most physiologically vulnerable to warming waters.

The U.S. is facing a gasoline price crisis, and recent actions by elected officials and automakers made it difficult for this moment to lead to a major surge in electric vehicle sales.

Local tech groups think Pennsylvania will have more than 4,000 percent capacity growth in data centers in the next decade. Lawmakers are considering bills that might have an impact on that.

Virtual power plants see a renewed push in the legislature to weather California's “mid-transition,” a period when renewables must coexist with fossil fuels to drive the state toward a zero-carbon energy grid.

“Taken from us too soon”: Scientists mourned the United States’ most important climate rule at a mock funeral.

A new law will make it harder to sue agricultural operations for the climate harms caused by their emissions. Is anyone trying to do so?

Michigan Democrats say the Trump administration’s war in Iran and refusal to invest in renewable energy are driving up costs for their constituents.

Norway reopened its annual whale hunting season earlier this month—and as demand for the meat declines in the country, Norway is exporting it to Japan by marketing it to tourists and selling it online as dog food.

Trump’s EPA is working to roll back Biden-era rules to protect workers, first responders and communities from chemical explosions and other accidental releases—just as climate change is making them more likely.

A proposed data center campus in Georgia has become a flashpoint in the state’s expanding AI infrastructure boom.

Four decades into her crusade against Texas petrochemical plants, Diane Wilson—a retired shrimper—remaines determined to fight Dow, the largest chemical company in America.

Yale University researchers linked large livestock feeding operations to high rates of bladder cancer in California, colorectal cancer in Iowa and lung and bronchus cancer in Texas.

At an event sponsored by the gas industry, Democratic leaders sowed doubt about the practicality of transitioning to renewables in Pennsylvania.

After decades of fighting a polluting trash incinerator in Northern Minneapolis, residents are escalating their fight with a hunger strike.

Data centers consume enormous amounts of electricity in N.C. but don’t pay taxes on it.

The days of Britain’s fish and chip shops might be numbered. Rising temperatures and overfishing have seen the U.K.’s iconic cod decline for over a decade. Now, consumers are warned to “completely avoid” eating the fish.

The Keystone XL pipeline was one of the most controversial energy proposals of the century, killed by Obama, revived by Trump and then nixed by Biden. Is it back from the dead again?

Trump’s use of a WWII-era power to prop up coal is “illegal” according to one expert, and it also makes electricity more expensive.

Georgia lawmakers adjourned without passing a single bill on data centers—no action on tax breaks, expansion or consumer protections.

At gas pumps across the U.S., Americans have confronted a reality about international energy markets that is missing from President Trump’s portrait of an energy-dominant nation impervious to a historic supply disruption.

California to consider banning PFAS pesticides after studies found traces of the toxic chemicals on nearly 40 percent of conventional produce grown in the state.

Between the U.S. bombing Iran and the Strait of Hormuz continuing to be closed, energy experts say that countries transitioning to renewable energy will be more resilient in the “face of shock.”

Slashing programs to help small farmers and cutting conservation-focused staff means Trump’s USDA will help bigger, more polluting producers.

“People like me are probably going to be running out of water.” Cities, towns and industrial complexes are planning to quickly pump tens of millions of gallons of water per day in a bid to avert disaster near Corpus Christi, TX.

President Trump’s annual budget request to Congress continues to defund climate change programs, environmental protection and renewable energy as he proposes to slash funding for the EPA, NOAA and FEMA.

The main driver of gas-utility bills used to be the price of gas itself, but utility spending on gas infrastructure has more than tripled in the last decade—now making up the bulk of consumer costs.

Forests currently absorb about a quarter of carbon emissions from human activities, but that depends on healthy leaves doing their job. A new study shows how a combination of heat and drought disrupts the process, weakening a key climate buffer.

Researchers studying lobsters’ early life cycles found clues that could help Maine fisheries that depend on them planning for a warmer future.

A Bronxville church is testing geothermal installations—and it could be a blueprint for similar projects in NYC. Despite high costs and tight spaces, geothermal systems are cutting emissions and could reshape how dense cities heat and cool buildings.

Years of debate on electric vehicles in Virginia have slowed the roll of the transition and now VA Republicans want tax relief to ease gas costs, but state Democrats—who control both houses—have indicated no interest in suspending the gas tax.

The EPA placed microplastics on a list of contaminants that are not subject to regulation or monitoring.

In February, Border Patrol requested access to Big Bend Ranch, Seminole Canyon and Bensten-Rio Grande Valley State Parks, including 14 parcels in Big Bend Ranch, signaling interest in easements, leases or potential purchases.

The amount of acreage burned in wildfires so far this year is 231 percent of the previous 10-year average. The federal government’s biggest firefighting force, in the US Forest Service, will face a risky season amid a major upheaval of their agency.

Are your electricity bills increasing? A new report says one reason is that utility profit margins are rising. Florida Power & Light is leading the way.

Staff at a state run mental health clinic serving Maui wildfire survivors have faced months of stress over the future of their jobs. Some are finally leaving.

The first Black woman ever elected to statewide office in Georgia, Alicia Johnson, discusses rate hikes, transparency and her priorities for the Georgia Public Service Commission. “Good public policy can set us up for a strong energy future and a legacy for our children’s children to inherit.”

Even though Texas leads the nation in wind energy, producing more than a fifth of the country’s wind-sourced electricity, and studies show the region could have similar successes offshore, the state has no offshore wind projects as construction on other projects resume this month.

Batteries had a record-setting day in California, but the growth in battery storage is centered in Texas.

Chemically recycling plastic has proven to be a technical and economic challenge. Now, the chemical industry wants the EPA’s help. Environmentalists are raising alarms.

Two-thirds of Pennsylvanians don’t want an AI data center near them, but the state is a hotbed of proposed projects. How are politicians responding?

Father Joe Mitchell, a Passionist priest, wants the world to recognize the interconnectedness of people and nature amid a worsening ecological crisis.

Despite its sunny climate, Alabama ranks 49th among U.S. states in residential solar installations, but advocates say the steep solar fee is part of the reason why.

A planned 1.3-mile wall across Monte Cristo Rey has drawn opposition from environmentalists and the local Roman Catholic Diocese, which owns most of the mountain.

Attendees at the National Hurricane Conference this week in Orlando are preparing for the start of the season June 1 without FEMA because of the partial government shutdown.

Tracking leatherback sea turtles’ movements could help identify where high-risk fishing areas overlap with the critically endangered species.

The invasive emerald ash borer, native to northeast Asia, has spread to 37 states over the past quarter century—killing almost all of the ash trees it infests. In Maine, however, a coalition of basketmakers, scientists and government officials are searching for a future for their trees.

U.S. wildfires have burned over 127 percent more acreage so far in 2026 than the 10-year average, as drought, paltry Western snows and unseasonable heat prime the nation for a long wildfire season.