Labor productivity would dwindle as workers wilt in the heat. Summers in Illinois would feel like a Louisiana swamp. Epic...
Articles by Mark Drajem

The New York-bound Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia, killing seven and injuring more than 200, was traveling 106 miles...
U.S. drillers already reeling from a six- month drop in oil prices denounced new U.S. fracking regulations as costly and...
The Obama administration issued the first federal regulations for fracking since the drilling technique fueled a domestic energy boom, requiring...
A coalition of advocacy groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for public access to information on toxic chemicals released...

Coal miners took on skiers, and environmentalists dueled with business groups as the public debated sweeping rules from the Obama...
As the Obama administration defends its efforts to curb carbon emissions this week, it’s taking a new tack: arguing that...
U.S. senators said they will take up a bill as soon as this week to require inspections and clean-up plans...
A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning to pregnant women in West Virginia has raised alarms because officials,...

West Virginia’s Governor sees the “light at the end of the tunnel” in the chemical leak that has compromised water...