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Federal authorities fined a Massachusetts shellfish processing plant, and a temporary work agency that staffed it, $44,000 for broken safety rules that played a role in an employee's death -- a penalty that workers' rights advocates criticized as a slap on the wrist.

Researchers plan to test a biological pesticide that could stop the spread of an invasive mussel species in Wisconsin.

The Fish and Wildlife Service today confirmed that the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome has been found on bats in Mississippi for the first time, alarming some environmentalists who say it's just a matter of time before bats there start to die and the disease spreads across the American West.

Technology that helps launch weapons and rockets may be the key to using almost no water when companies seek to crack rocks to find oil and natural gas -- the process known as hydraulic fracturing.

A pair of California Democrats yesterday advanced their push to update regulations on captive marine mammals by amending the fiscal 2015 agriculture appropriations bill.

The federal gas tax would disappear in favor of a wholesale levy on oil under a bill (H.R. 4848) introduced yesterday by Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) intended to pump more than $100 billion in new revenue into the Highway Trust Fund over the next decade.

House Republicans' leadership elections on June 19 today took shape as a three-way contest for majority whip and a Texas-versus-California faceoff for majority leader.

U.S. EPA's proposal to limit greenhouse gas emissions is not as popular in coal country as it is in the rest of the country, according to a new poll released today by the National Mining Association.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz defended the Obama administration's climate regulatory agenda to a crowd of skeptical coal boosters.

The Sierra Club today announced an ad campaign targeting House Republicans in competitive races and accusing them of not doing enough to support wind energy development by extending a key renewable energy tax credit. And the League of Conservation Voters is launching an online advertising effort to urge support for U.S. EPA's recently unveiled rule to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

Mike Boots should probably get comfortable in his seat in the White House's Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

A government watchdog group today plans to file a lawsuit to compel the Bureau of Land Management to release documents involving its failed roundup of cows owned by Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's acting chairwoman's announcement yesterday that the agency intends to fight a court ruling that vacated a key demand-response rule has drawn less-than-enthusiastic reactions from FERC's two Republican commissioners.

As the Obama administration and industry groups go to war over the costs of a high-stakes climate rule, the White House has released a new study showing that the benefits of major federal regulations vastly exceed the costs.

Eight thousand years ago, nomadic families camped in Zion Canyon's shadow. Two thousand years ago, farmers appeared. Then came the Mormons. And now: drones.

With the Supreme Court expected to hand down a decision as early as Monday on U.S. EPA's use of the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gases, what could the outcome mean for future carbon emissions cases? On today's The Cutting Edge, ClimateWire reporter Nathanael Massey discusses the possible outcomes and their implications for stakeholders.

Peru plans to encourage mining and energy investments by issuing fewer environmental fines and guarding development rights in protected nature reserves, the government announced yesterday.

The European Union's energy ministers today reached a deal to limit the use of food-based biofuels.

Around 25 percent of Beijing companies regulated by the city's carbon laws have ignored a mandatory deadline to report their emissions, local news agencies reported today.

India's spy agency has accused Greenpeace of blocking economic growth by protesting mines and other projects.

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