After talking the climate talk at U.N. negotiations in Scotland, the Biden administration now tests whether a divided United States...
Articles by Ellen Knickmeyer
Hazardous emissions from a chlorine plant fire, abruptly shuttered oil and gas refineries and still-to-be assessed plant damage are seeping...
The Trump White House has intervened to weaken one of the few public health protections pursued by its own administration,...
The Environmental Protection Agency said this week that it’s reviewing a request from the oil and gas industry to ease...
Fewer mock commando raids to test nuclear power plants’ defenses against terrorist attacks. Fewer, smaller government inspections for plant safety...
The nuclear power industry is pushing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to cut back on inspections at nuclear power plants and...
The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce a plan for dealing with a class of long-lasting chemical contaminants amid...
Long-term exposure to a chemical compound currently used for making nonstick coatings appears to be dangerous, even in minute amounts,...
California stands in “complete opposition” to a Trump administration plan to scrap a policy slashing climate-changing emissions from power plants,...
One year after the worst structural failures at a major U.S. dam in a generation, federal regulators who oversee California’s...