The dying grass told Jason Peeler something was amiss with sections of his family’s ranch an hour south of San Antonio. He got answers last March, when federal rules forced the operator of a coal-fired power plant in the middle of the family’s land to release its pollution data.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency’s prosecution of polluters is at its lowest level in three decades, a watchdog group reports.
Read moreThe Kern County, California, Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to rescind approval for a project that would have allowed a Bakersfield refinery to process up to 63 million barrels of volatile Bakken crude oil a year.
Read moreEnvironmental groups and Louisiana residents of a rural, majority-black area on the Mississippi River filed a records request Monday seeking answers to why St. James Parish officials “basically changed the black district into the petrochemical district.”
Read moreFiat Chrysler is expected to pay about $800 million to resolve claims that it used illegal software to cheat on emissions tests on more than 104,000 Ram pickup trucks and Jeep SUVs.
Read moreOregon has no duty to protect natural resources as part of a public trust, according to a state appeals court Wednesday, tossing claims that the state hasn’t done enough to stop climate change.
Read moreTying a bow on an otherwise cringeworthy year at the Baltimore Police Department, an officer with the marine unit brought a federal complaint detailing waste in a months-long salvage operation.
Read moreHuman feces, overflowing garbage, illegal off-roading and other damaging behavior in fragile areas were beginning to overwhelm some of the West’s iconic national parks, as a partial government shutdown left the areas open to visitors but with little staff on duty.
Read moreA California judge must reconsider whether a permit OK’d by the state to allow Southern California cities to dump excessive amounts of contaminated stormwater as long as they eventually develop safety compliance plans passes legal muster, a state appeals court has ruled.
Read moreThe 28-nation EU bloc moved closer Wednesday to banning single-use straws, plates, cutlery and cotton buds after officials from member states and the European Parliament said they’re following recommendations by its executive branch designed to marine pollution.
Read moreAlmost 200 nations, including the world’s top greenhouse gas producers, China and the United States, have adopted a set of rules meant to breathe life into the 2015 Paris climate accord by setting out how countries should report their emissions and efforts to reduce them.
Read moreFinding the federal agency tasked with diverting polluted Mexican waters from fouling San Diego beaches does not have sovereign immunity to dodge a lawsuit alleging Clean Water Act violations, a federal judge Tuesday denied dismissal of the groundbreaking case.
Read moreResidents from poor black and Latino neighborhoods who sued the city over policies that placed oil wells close to schools and homes in their neighborhoods argued in court on Friday that they have been swept up into a lawsuit filed by the oil industry, who want to hold them accountable for enacting change within the city’s internal zoning laws.
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Luxembourg is planning to become the first nation in the world to make all of its public transportation free. Starting in 2020, the government says, it will do away with fares on trains, trams and buses, to encourage people to use public transportation rather than cars.
Read moreTouting the benefits of cleaner air, a Wednesday report unveiled by the United Nations says reducing pollution could save the lives of a million people each year by mid-century.
Read moreTwo statewide bird conservation groups and local environmentalists claim Minneapolis’ proposed rezoning plan would increase housing density and relax regulations at the expense of natural resources such as trees and lakes.
Read moreThe Supreme Court ordered the U.S. solicitor general on Monday to offer input in two water cases, one involving a pipeline crack that caused an oil spill in South Carolina and the other involving Maui wastewater that drifts into the ocean.
Read moreWildfires in California in 2018 released the rough equivalent of about 68 million tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide — about the same amount of carbon emissions as are produced in a year to provide electricity to the state, U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Friday.
Read moreTwo Greek shipping companies pleaded guilty to Clean Water Act violations and agreed to pay a $4 million fine for discharging oil from a tanker into the Port of Houston and Port Arthur, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Read moreA federal judge questioned Monday whether he could dismiss a novel lawsuit challenging cross-border pollution at the U.S.-Mexico border under the Clean Water Act before any discovery has been conducted in the case.
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