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The Center for Biological Diversity last month rolled out an online publication that is focused on environmental stories that the conservation group believes other newsrooms and its own press operation are missing.

A coalition of environmental advocacy organizations has raised or contributed more than $1 million to candidates in the 2017-18 election cycle, the earliest the groups have hit that mark.

House Democrats are urging Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke once again to keep oil and gas drilling away from the Arctic Ocean.

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment unanimously approved a reauthorization of U.S. EPA's brownfield redevelopment program this morning but split sharply in advancing other bills to delay implementation of the agency's 2015 ozone standard and create an interim storage facility for nuclear power plant waste.

Kristine Svinicki moved a step closer to being confirmed again as chairwoman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission today, two weeks before her current term ends.

Senators are again demanding answers from U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt after reports surfaced yesterday that he appears to have used a second government email address as Oklahoma's attorney general despite telling lawmakers he only used one.

Solar and wind power are set to "dominate" the future of global electricity and push coal plants out of business faster than expected, said a report released this morning from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, an analysis firm.

Not far from the White House, some of the federal government's most influential number crunchers are still working on the social cost of carbon.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt looked to woo lawmakers on Capitol Hill today as he came under fire for President Trump's massive proposed budget cuts for the agency.

House lawmakers today advanced legislation that would allow the developers of two financially struggling reactor projects in South Carolina and Georgia to cash in on expiring tax credits.

A new expedition has discovered heavy plastic pollution on remote Arctic islands, showing that the region ends up being the dumping ground for waste coming from the Gulf Stream.

China and the Asian Development Bank plan to support efforts by small and medium-sized enterprises to cut pollution around the smog-covered Beijing area through a green financing program.

Houston has had more casualties and property damage from flooding than any other locality in the country.

Almost five years after Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc, worries seem to have dissipated along the Jersey Shore as large homes are going up and communities are looking to reinvent themselves.

Colorado health authorities have ceased monitoring groundwater contaminated with PFCs, or perfluorinated chemicals, state and federal officials confirmed.

California legislators yesterday required Volkswagen AG to build electric charging stations in disadvantaged communities.

Aging infrastructure in the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is breaking down and could cause future accidental releases of radiation, according to the top Energy Department official at the site.

The Interior Department's Office of Inspector General yesterday disclosed violations of federal policies by a technology supplier and a National Park Service employee.