ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

In Maine, packaging products covered by the law make up as much as 40 percent of the waste stream.In both...

WASHINGTON — Democrats are preparing to muscle through the nomination of Tracy Stone-Manning to head the Bureau of Land Management,...

‘Like a Moving Assembly Line’On an afternoon in mid-May, several laborers coming off their shift at Assembly Solar said they...

China, the world’s biggest source of greenhouse gas pollution, opened a national carbon emissions trading market on Friday, a long-awaited...

For much of the past decade, oil companies engaged in drilling and fracking have been allowed to pump into the...

As the U.S. economy struggles to emerge from its pandemic-induced hibernation, consumers and businesses have encountered product shortages, hiring difficulties...

Jill Laidlaw has worked for 37 years at Camp Cavell in Lexington, Mich., a little spot of paradise on Lake...

At the same time, American cities are facing a heat crisis: The largest are warming at twice the rate of...

Boryana Dineva was born on May 26, 1983, in Bulgaria. With the fall of Communism in 1989, her family emigrated...

But if a final infrastructure package includes little or no spending on electric vehicles, a tougher tailpipe rule would likely...

ORDBEND, Calif. — In America’s fruit and nut basket, water is now the most precious crop of all.It explains why,...

The Biden administration has defended a contentious pipeline project that would carry hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil through...

MINETY, England — On a clearing at the edge of a farm field, 40 big rectangular boxes the size of...

A heat dome is baking Arizona and Nevada, where temperatures have soared past 115 degrees this week and doctors are...

A heat dome is baking Arizona and Nevada, where temperatures have soared past 115 degrees this week and doctors are...

SHANGHAI — The Chinese government said on Wednesday that “about five” of the uranium fuel rods inside a nuclear power...

AUSTIN, Texas — On Monday, when soaring temperatures drove electricity demand in Texas to a June record, state regulators asked...

WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has advised President Biden to restore sweeping environmental protections to three major national monuments...

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will reconsider federal limits on fine industrial soot, one of the most common and deadliest...

Some environmental solutions are win-win, helping to rein in global warming and protecting biodiversity, too. But others address one crisis...

The Canadian pipeline company that had long sought to build the Keystone XL pipeline announced Wednesday that it had terminated...

“Particularly from a climate standpoint, the case for a brand-new, massive tar-sands pipeline is extremely thin and frankly nonexistent,” said...

At the start of wildfire season, California’s insurance regulator has backed sweeping changes to discourage home building in fire-prone areas,...

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Tuesday said it would suspend oil drilling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...

More than a third of heat-related deaths in many parts of the world can be attributed to the extra warming...

The Biden administration will announce on Thursday that it is requiring the nation’s pipeline companies to report to the government...

Kristen Miller, acting director of the Alaska Wilderness League, said the burning of oil produced by the Willow project over...

WASHINGTON — The federal government said on Wednesday said it has cleared a key hurdle to open up the central...

“Today that down payment grew substantially, but as a nation we must still do more,” said Mr. Kaniewski, a managing...

Randal K. Quarles, the Fed’s vice chair for bank supervision and regulation, was asked about the critique while testifying before...

WASHINGTON — Workers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency have been scouting shelters for the migrant children surging across the...

Storms, floods, wildfires — and to a lesser degree, conflict — uprooted 40.5 million people around the world in 2020....

WASHINGTON — Workers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency have been scouting shelters for the migrant children surging across the...

The burden for Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, is about $1 trillion per year, researchers said. They placed losses at...

ALBUQUERQUE — This year, New Mexican officials have a message for farmers who depend on irrigation water from the Rio...

Those factors interconnect: High temperatures lead to longer fire seasons and larger burn areas as well as drier soils that...

But, the official said, the United States has been challenged to enforce the sanctions without reliable help from allies and...

The throwaway plastic that holds our takeout food and wraps our dry cleaning is widely seen as one of the...

HOUSTON — When OPEC barred oil exports to the United States in 1973, creating long gasoline lines, President Richard Nixon...

For more than a century, the core mission of the National Park Service has been preserving the natural heritage of...

HOUSTON — When OPEC barred oil exports to the United States in 1973, creating long gasoline lines, President Richard Nixon...