Greenwire

California's proposed $16 billion water project is drawing questions and criticism after one of the state's water districts said government funding was offered to finish planning stages for two water tunnels.

U.S. EPA's Office of Water sent a host of regulations to the White House Office of Management and Budget this week, including a rule to set up a massive water infrastructure loan program and another to collect data on unregulated pollutants like pesticides and algae toxins.

There are now 18 different people who could run U.S. EPA.

One of U.S. EPA's senior officials involved in the agency's response to the drinking water crisis in Flint, Mich., is taking on a new job.

A fire that started yesterday morning at a Louisiana refinery was extinguished late that afternoon.

A fire at a Michigan power plant was about 80 percent contained last night, with firefighters continuing work into the late hours.

The nation's first offshore wind farm is set to open off the coast of Rhode Island in the fall, paving the way for future offshore operations across the country.

New York state considered seizing the FitzPatrick nuclear plant when negotiations about a corporate takeover stalled in January.

A federal court today ruled that mine operators are required to test whether power cables and extension cords are working properly.

A 15-year U.S. EPA veteran has joined the Washington, D.C., office of the law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP.

A Department of Justice lawyer who supervised the government's civil environmental claims in the Deepwater Horizon incident has been named chief of DOJ's Environmental Enforcement Section.

Federal officials yesterday approved 10 more years of mining and a 500-acre expansion to one of the largest molybdenum mines in the world.

Louisiana is using a pipeline as long as 10 miles to transport Mississippi River sediment to vast stretches of open water on the state's receding southern coast.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association is predicting the strongest Atlantic hurricane season since 2012.

California lawmakers are urging the Interior Department to analyze the environmental impacts of a hot-button legal settlement with Central Valley water districts.

Utah Republican Rep. Rob Bishop is working to incorporate new language into his sweeping public lands bill to allow Native American tribes to co-manage the Bears Ears region in his state.

Maryam Brown, a staffer who's been at the center of House energy policy since Republicans regained control of the chamber in early 2011, is leaving Capitol Hill for K Street.

Environmental scientists who have long questioned whether burning biomass for energy is truly beneficial to the environment asked forestry researchers yesterday to intervene in the ongoing legislative debate surrounding the fuel's carbon neutrality.