A crude oil pipeline spill in the Detroit suburbs has gotten little public attention but has caused federal regulators to initiate a nationwide investigation into the safety of all the hazardous liquid pipelines operated by the Dallas-based industry giant Energy Transfer.

U.S. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier of California, who has worked to improve refinery safety after five men died at the same Martinez plant in the 1990s, wants to see a systematic shift that prioritizes people over profits.

The U.S. government will no longer require environmental reviews for oil exploration in the fragile and rapidly warming Western Arctic.

The SEC issued a rare report this week putting investors on notice that some climate risk advocacy could trigger investigations. The focus was a campaign against ExxonMobil.

In the most landlocked region of the planet, aquaculture is booming. But fueling the industry’s rapid growth is forced labor.

Baltimore residents saw two opposite moves on incineration within days: Maryland moved to shut down a medical incinerator while Baltimore County voted to renew a contract with the city’s biggest source of pollution, Win Waste trash incinerator.

Adult bookstores, landfills, utility-scale solar. These are among the land uses deemed undesirable in the comprehensive plan issued by an Indiana county.

New research shows 75 percent of tropical forests were disrupted by extreme heat and drought during the 2023-24 El Niño, and that fire-derived ozone is eroding their capacity to absorb carbon dioxide.

What do River Phoenix and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have in common? They both stoked the ire of the livestock industry.

European supermarkets are pushing the fishing industry to be more sustainable. Failure to do so might leave the continent’s supermarkets without mackerel.

Alabama will now require more public disclosures around data centers, but stopped short of requiring each project be approved by its utility commission.

A batch of newly disclosed internal documents show ExxonMobil scientists questioning the company’s claims on its preferred climate solutions.

Warehouses. Data centers. Tax breaks. Development has become a key issue in a highly contested New York House race.

Can oil companies be sued for climate deception? That’s the question at the heart of a case argued before the Supreme Court on Monday.

“I think that we really need to have federal action to stop this crisis before more people suffer from unaffordable water bills,” said Mary Grant, the water policy director at Food & Water Watch.

“Altadena is a very working-class Black and Brown community, where they feel as though they've been treated very differently in this process,” said Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez, D-Pasadena.

Landfills in New York could run out of space before 2050. Without a major push to increase recycling and composting, New York City may have to send more of its trash to out-of-state landfills.

Border wall construction in the Big Bend sparked a national outcry. Now a federal judge has sided with conservationists and landowners.

America’s largest producer of foundry coke is operating with an expired permit. Who is at fault?

Just days before the Supreme Court hears Boulder’s landmark climate case against Big Oil, a New Jersey county filed the latest climate suit against the industry.