Rice plants are a big source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Scientists just developed a strain that cuts those emissions by 70 percent.

The states passed the first comprehensive laws to prevent utilities from charging customers for lobbying, advertising, and ...

The phrase is puzzling for people trying to understand it as a policy goal. The United States already produces more oil than ever before.

Researchers and activists are archiving websites and data because “policymakers and the public need good information to make the best policy." ...

Exxon's proposal for a plastics factory on the Gulf Coast raises alarms for a community already dealing with pollution.

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.

Nearly five years ago, the United States Department of Energy, or DOE, began an unusual partnership with the country’s largest lobbying group for the plastics industry.

Chris Wright is no hater of renewables, nuclear power, or transmission. But the Trump administration’s energy policy is a ...

Sámi homelands, known as Sápmi, stretch across northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, and the report’s authors ...

Simmering urban temperatures are bad for humans. It's another story for rats, according to new research -- especially in ...

Trump’s immigration crackdown could cause chaos for communities trying to rebuild after devastating wildfires and floods, as the vast majority of skilled disaster-restoration workers are ...

Hocker lived on Maui when wildfires destroyed as many as 4,000 housing units in August 2023, leveling the town of Lahaina. But as an organizer with the Maui Housing Hui, a tenant advocacy group, she ...