Greenwire

The Nuclear Energy Institute has tapped an executive and engineer from power company Exelon Corp. to help manage its regulatory affairs.

Environmentalists and conservative advocates today announced a new coalition of groups from across the political spectrum dedicated to clean energy and climate change.

A federal judge on Friday upheld the government's charges that occupants of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge conspired to prevent Fish and Wildlife Service employees from doing their jobs and illegally carried firearms into a federal facility.

The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from Native Americans arguing that a solar project on federal land in Southern California threatens their religious freedom.

Monica Regalbuto has taken on the Department of Energy's Mission: Impossible.

INYO COUNTY, Calif. -- America's first water war was fought here in the early 1900s, sparked by a Los Angeles sneak attack on the Owens River. When it ended, the booming metropolis had slurped up the water, Owens Lake was a poisoned salt flat and Owens Valley residents were choking in thick clouds of toxic dust. The Owens Lake story is a cautionary tale for the West, where cities, farms and endangered fish are battling over water supplies threatened by a warming climate and historic drought. At least a half-dozen salt lakes -- including Utah's iconic Great Salt Lake -- are dying.

The Australian Greens political party has outlined its agenda for the next Parliament.

Norway may ban the sale of gasoline- and fossil fuel-powered cars by 2025, according to a new report.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) has appointed Bob Randall as executive director of the state's Department of Natural Resources.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) last night vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have allowed neighbors of coal ash ponds to connect to municipal water supplies, along with creating a regulatory commission for the ponds' cleanup.

The number of beehive thefts is increasing.

Most cotton companies do almost nothing to ensure their business is environmentally sustainable, according to a new report.

A NASA research scientist was found dead in Maryland after having been reported missing a day earlier, according to authorities.

U.S. EPA today released its first-ever final technical guide for addressing environmental justice concerns in agency regulations and oversight.

A subdivision in San Bernardino County, Calif., is conducting one of the nation's largest experiments to see whether a concept known as zero net energy can be put into widespread use in the near future.

Large technology companies that use massive amounts of energy are now sourcing more power directly from renewables as opposed to purchasing renewable energy credits to offset their carbon footprints.

Since the Arab oil embargo in the 1970s, the federal government has stockpiled nearly 700 million barrels of oil -- enough to maintain U.S. consumption levels for five months in the case of another embargo or crisis -- at a suite of facilities known as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast.

A federal judge should throw out North Carolina's lawsuit targeting a regional ozone-reduction program because the state has failed to cite resulting harm, U.S. EPA argues in a new court filing.