Greenwire

The Obama administration proposed voluntary guidelines yesterday for oil and gas companies to reduce methane emissions that it says will complement regulations in the pipeline.

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) is preparing to release her much-anticipated drought measure before lawmakers leave town for August recess.

The Senate inched forward on a road and transit funding bill today as the legislation squeaked past another procedural hurdle, but risked becoming snarled in unrelated policy fights. With only a week remaining until the existing transportation authorization law expires, a rare Sunday session is likely.

Donald Trump has denied man-made climate change, demanded Al Gore be stripped of his Nobel Peace Prize and enraged environmentalists around the world by supplanting ecosystems with luxury golf courses. His polarizing views on other issues have dominated media coverage of the 2016 GOP presidential contender lately, but the brash billionaire's ascendance in the race has greens alarmed.

A team of more than 20 E&E Publishing reporters will deploy to cover the release of the U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan, expected as soon as next week.

The discovery of the headless, skinned carcass of Cecil the lion just outside a Zimbabwe national park has kicked off a manhunt for a Spanish hunter believed to have paid more than $55,000 to kill one of Africa's most famous lions.

France's government is considering changing how it applies a tax to power bills to fund renewable energy by extending it to natural gas and transportation fuels.

For the first time in 25 years, a Chinese social organization is being allowed to sue a company over pollution.

A park in north Milwaukee was shut down Saturday after "a confirmed sighting of a lionlike animal," according to police.

Scientists have detected a large algae bloom near the Lake Erie islands but say there is no threat yet to area drinking water.

Toledo, Ohio, has deployed an array of upgrades, defenses and sensors to better prepare the city to handle any recurrence of the toxic Lake Erie algae bloom that cut off safe tap water to hundreds of thousands of residents last August.

The eight-member New Jersey Transit governing board has unanimously voted in favor of more than 800 resolutions approving spending, $583 million in tunnel construction, $347 million for new buses and rail cars, and four fare increases, according to public records.

America's busiest rail sector is struggling to handle increasing ridership and aging infrastructure.

As part of a reverse stock split, shares of Arch Coal Inc. are expected to rise for the first time in years today.

A Wyoming conservation group is moving to intervene in a dispute over Alpha Natural Resources Inc.'s ability to ensure the reclamation of mines in the state.

A coalition of Washington state American Indian tribes put a $150,000 grant from the Bureau of Indian Affairs toward assessing the impacts of climate change on its reservation's natural resources, namely traditional food sources suffering through a current drought.

Cities and water agencies in Southern California are petitioning the Supreme Court to reject a plan that could restrict water access in the Santa Ana River to save an endangered fish.

Rice farmers in the Sacramento Valley are using their senior water rights to help with environmental restoration projects, a local water official contends.