Grist

New changes “ended up making the program less focused on people of color than it originally was,” one advocate said.

In the wake of the Ohio train derailment, towns wonder how to avoid same fate.

The coal industry may be dying in the U.S., but its health impacts are not, report finds.

Documents detail how the EPA coordinated with the very companies they’re supposed to regulate by attacking researchers and smearing peer-reviewed science. 

Almost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels — and the EPA acknowledges that the plastic-based ones may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health or the environment.

The hotter weather pattern might push the Earth into unprecedented territory next year.

Laguna Beach said the decision would keep litter out of the ocean and prevent potential fires.

Africatown, the only U.S. community established by West Africans who survived the Middle Passage, demonstrates the long roots of environmental injustice.

As frontline communities demand relief from diesel pollution, trucking advocates warn the state is moving too fast.

The announcement is “yet another nail in the coffin for PFAS.”

The answer: try at least $500 million.

New levees are too late to stop the exodus for bayou villages like Pointe-aux-Chenes.

"There is just no excuse" for the rise in methane emissions last year, IEA director says.

Trains carry hazardous chemicals everyday. They're also dangerously unregulated.

Tribes say the decision to reduce water flow "has more to do with potatoes than it does fish.”

Coal mining provided jobs for decades but has left the land vulnerable to fatal floods.

European Union countries spent big to fight rising costs.

The change came amid pressure from the state's vocal fishing community.

Some miners are promising more climate-friendly operations, but research shows the industry is a long way from putting that into practice.

One in five Americans now lives in an area that's trying to move buildings off fossil fuels.