States Rights
The U.S. Court of Appeals is likely to decide soon on a bid by 15 states to slow down the timetable of the Environmental Protection Agency’s sweeping plan to dramatically...
Endangered Species
Washington's National Zoo said one of its two newborn panda cubs died Wednesday after three and a half days.
Environment
Managers at the Environmental Protection Agency were aware of the possible risk for a catastrophic “blowout” at an abandoned mine that could release “large volumes” of...
Environment
Massive groundwater pumping in California’s Central Valley over the course of the state’s historic drought is causing vast areas of land to sink faster than in the past,...
Environment
As the Animas River in Colorado continues to be flooded with toxic metal waste, owners of the nearby mines are playing the blame game.
Environment
Farmers, towns and tribes slammed water-intake gates shut as a sludge-laden plume from a Colorado mine spill rolled down principal rivers in the desert Southwest on Monday,...
Environment
Beneath the western United States lie thousands of old mining tunnels filled with the same toxic stew that spilled into a Colorado river last week, turning it into a nauseating...
Environment
A plume of orange-ish muck from million-gallon mine waste spill in Colorado was headed down river to New Mexico, prompting communities along the water route to take precautions...
Regulation
Faced with President Obama’s vastly expensive Clean Power Plan to remake the U.S. electrical system and other looming regulatory decisions that dramatically affect energy...
Carbon Emissions
Before any rational discussion of the economic or scientific merits of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, to be finalized on Monday, can begin, it is necessary to take his...