Five years ago, encouraged by home builders and an anti-regulatory zeal, lawmakers in North Carolina joined other states in weakening...
Articles by Ari Natter
U.S. taxpayers who spent billions of dollars after a trifecta of hurricanes last year are poised to do so again...
Scientists say California’s record wildfires have been fed by an abnormally hot and dry fire season made worse by climate...

Hackers increasingly threaten sites in the U.S. ranging from nuclear power plants to water processing systems, according to a member...
Donald Blankenship, the former Massey Energy chief executive who went to prison in the wake of a 2010 mine explosion...
Hidden in the Trump administration’s $44 billion emergency budget request is a plan to expand an Obama-era effort to make...
In the event of a dirty bomb or a nuclear meltdown, emergency responders can safely tolerate radiation levels equivalent to...

The Trump administration is proposing to slash funding for grants to prevent lead poisoning, climate change research and criminal enforcement...