Greenwire

New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez (R) has joined those opposed to routing a multistate transmission line project near an Army missile testing range, imploring Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to find another route or require the project proponents to bury the section of the line near the range.

Tom Steyer set tongues wagging in the capital this winter when he floated the prospect of advertising against Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairwoman Mary Landrieu (D-La.) -- but today the billionaire environmentalist underscored that the GOP, more than even the Keystone XL pipeline, is his top enemy.

Federal appellate judges yesterday canceled oral arguments in a case brought by a children's campaign seeking to use a novel legal argument to force the government to take more action on global warming.

There's been a crackdown on U.S. EPA employees' behavior, thanks to CIA masquerader John Beale.

Automakers on average have reduced the greenhouse gas footprint of their model year 2012 passenger vehicles even below the levels required by U.S. EPA's new tailpipe emissions rules, according to a new report released today by the agency.

One of the world's biggest paper companies plans to back the conservation of 1 million hectares (nearly 2.5 million acres) of rainforest in Indonesia to reduce the company's impact on wildlife habitats.

The Japanese government and media are hailing as a victory the reopening of the first village within the 12-mile evacuation zone surrounding the still-leaking Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. But many residents aren't joining the celebration; they say their homes are still unsafe, and they haven't received enough compensation to live elsewhere.

China will likely continue to rely on coal into the future, despite plans to increase nuclear and renewable energy, consultants said in a report today.

A landslide on a hill about a mile west of Jackson, Wyo., threatens serious damage to the people who live there but hardly stands to devour the entire town. In some ways, a greater threat from the slow-motion disaster is to Jackson's working-class residents, who provide services to the area's wealthy as they take advantage of top-dollar recreation opportunities in the resort town.

Facing a growing drought, a few California cities are patrolling the streets, looking for residents who are wasting water.

A majority of southern Minnesota cropland that abuts lakes and rivers doesn't have a required buffer zone to absorb agricultural runoff, a new study shows.

A video game that critics called the worst ever made has risen from the grave: Documentary filmmakers and archaeologists Saturday dug hundreds of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" cartridges out of a New Mexico landfill.

State officials have flagged high levels of arsenic, chromium-6 and uranium in the Burbank, Calif., water supply, raising alarm in the Southern California city.

Workers in Chernobyl, Ukraine, are getting closer to completing a one-of-a-kind engineering project to cap the remains of the world's worst civilian nuclear disaster.

A major proposed coal mine in southeastern Montana has fallen more than two years behind its permitting schedule in the face of opposition from environmental groups and state officials.

Greenpeace International is sending a ship to confront a Russian tanker carrying oil from the Arctic to the Netherlands.

President Obama told a youth town hall meeting in Malaysia yesterday that climate change would "condemn future generations to a planet that is beyond fixing" if countries don't work together to limit emissions.

The California Air Resources Board voted last week to allow the capture of waste methane from mines to count toward compliance with the state's cap-and-trade system.

Federal judges Friday rejected U.S. EPA's request to reconsider a ruling that threw out the agency's air pollution rule for some American Indian territories.

The city of Chicago may have to remove as many as 10,000 trees in a bid to stop the invasive emerald ash borer.

Latest Images