Feds reject removal of 4 US Northwest dams in key report
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A long-awaited federal report out Friday rejected the idea of removing four hydroelectric dams on ...
US officials cite ‘balance’ as goal for Chaco oil plan
ALBUQUERQUE, N .M. (AP) — U.S. land managers on Friday made public a list of possible alternatives for managing developm...
UK court blocks Heathrow expansion over climate concerns
LONDON (AP) — Campaigners won a court ruling Thursday to block the plan for a third runway at Heathrow Airport on enviro...
Supreme Court hears battle over Atlantic Coast Pipeline
The Supreme Court on Monday appeared ready to remove an obstacle to construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, with a ...
Scientists gather to study risk from microplastic pollution
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Tiny bits of broken-down plastic smaller than a fraction of a grain of rice are turning up everywh...
Germany’s Hamburg city in elections marked by climate issues
BERLIN (AP) — Voters in Hamburg, Germany’s second-biggest city, go to the polls Sunday to pick a new regional assembly i...
Toxic Superfund cleanups decline to more than 30-year low
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration completed the fewest cleanups of toxic Superfund sites last year than any adm...
Trump delivers on pledge for wealthy California farmers
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hoisting the spoils of victories in California’s hard-fought water wars, President Donald Trump is dir...
German ex-environment minister seeks to lead Merkel’s party
BERLIN — A former German environment minister on Tuesday became the first prominent figure officially to declare his candidacy for the leadership of C...
Delta says it will invest $1 billion to cut carbon emissions
Delta Air Lines said Friday it will invest $1 billion over the next 10 years in measures designed to offset climate-warming carbon emissions from its ...
RK Pachauri, who led Nobel-winning climate panel, dies at 79
NEW DELHI — Indian environmentalist Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, under whose leadership a U.N. climate change panel shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, has...
South Sudan ignores reports on oil pollution, birth defects
PALOCH, South Sudan — The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste pits, the water and soil contaminated wi...
Macron vows “fight of the century” against climate change
PARIS — France’s leader called the battle against climate change and environmental destruction “the fight of the century” Thursday after visiting a me...
Push to scale back US environmental law draws ire at hearing
DENVER — The Trump administration on Tuesday hosted the first of two hearings on its proposal to speed energy and other projects by rolling back a lan...
UK’s Johnson backs high speed railway despite opposition
LONDON — Britain’s Conservative government on Tuesday approved an overdue, over-budget plan for a high-speed rail line linking London with central and...
Amid uncertainty, French wine industry puts itself on show
PARIS — France's big wine industry, shaken by U.S. President Trump’s painful tariff hikes and the threat of climate change, is hoping to re-energize g...
Trump calls for slashing funding for toxic Superfund cleanup
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump called Monday for slashing funding for the Superfund hazardous waste program, even as the backlog of clean-ups has...
Factory farms provide abundant food, but environment suffers
AKRON, Iowa — In recent years, Fred Zenk built two barns housing about 2,400 hogs between them — long, white, concrete-and-metal structures that are u...
Groups give notice they will sue to protect beluga whales
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Two environmental groups gave formal notice Friday that they will sue to protect endangered Alaska beluga whales from problems cau...
French climate alliance takes legal action against Total
A French climate alliance of charity groups and local authorities launched an unprecedented legal action Tuesday against Total, hoping to make the Fre...
Trump ups mileage proposal, but it’s well below Obama plan
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is making a concession on its proposed minimum fuel economy requirement for new vehicles, but environmental grou...
Why tech has been slow to fight wildfires, extreme weather
SAN FRANCISCO — For two years running , California’s wildfires have sent plumes of smoke across Silicon Valley. So far, that hasn't spurred much tech ...
Steyer, buoyed by polling, makes campaign swing in Nevada
LAS VEGAS — Driving on any freeway in Las Vegas, you’re likely to see Tom Steyer’s face. Turn on the radio, you might hear his voice. Turn on the tele...
Navy review backs planned expansion of Nevada bombing range
RENO, Nev. — The U.S. Navy has concluded no significant environmental harm would come from its proposed tripling of the size of a Nevada bombing train...
Environmental issues top worries for those heading to Davos
LONDON — Environmental issues dominate the global risks for top decision-makers over the coming decade, organizers of next week's World Economic Forum...
EU launches 1 trillion-euro plan to support Green Deal
BRUSSELS — The European Union plans to dedicate a quarter of its budget to tackling climate change and has set up a scheme to shift 1 trillion euros (...
Steyer wants climate change refugees to enter US legally
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer on Friday unveiled an immigration proposal seeking to make immigrants fleeing the effects of...
US plutonium production plan likely to spur legal challenge
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The agency that oversees the United States’ nuclear arsenal says it doesn’t need to do any broad environmental reviews of a propos...
Court to decide if private border wall can go next to river
HOUSTON — For Tommy Fisher, a federal court hearing set for Thursday next to the U.S.-Mexico border could result in his company getting a chance to pr...
Big study finds no strong sign linking baby powder & cancer
U.S. government-led research found no strong evidence linking baby powder with ovarian cancer in the largest analysis to look at the question.