Environment

There’s a major sector of the automobile industry that is unwavering in its support of strong clean car standards: auto parts manufacturers.

The authors used EPA’s own risk assessments to estimate the number of illnesses and early deaths prevented by clean air and water rules Trump is now trying to erase.

The idea that the power grid is so frail it’s become a national security crisis got little support from FERC commissioners testifying before Congress.

A spate of record-breaking storms has spurred a call for expanding the hurricane scale for better warnings that could save lives.

A growing pool of scientific evidence indicates that living near oil and gas production can endanger public health.

Trump wants a backwards industrial policy. That’s not surprising, given that everything else he and his administration are doing is designed to take us backwards.

Under Obama, the Federal Emergency Management Agency emphasized climate risk. The new plan fails to even mention the words 'climate change' or 'sea level rise.'

While top-level science positions remain vacant, scientific advisory panels have been quietly diminished, disbanded or stacked with industry scientists.

Short cuts, subsidies and tax breaks helped create 7,000 jobs in the Powder River Basin. Damage to water, air and land is part of the price borne by the public, too.

Exxon Mobil Corp. has vowed to do a better job in disclosing the risks it faces from climate change starting “in the near future” after bucking pressure to do that for years.