The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing changes experts said would weaken reporting and monitoring rules for toxic "forever chemicals" known as PFAS, in Utah and elsewhere. The thousands ...

Indigenous leaders, farmers, conservationists, and community activists—risk their lives opposing the destructive exploitation of natural resources. Global Witness defines them as people who “take a ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing changes experts said would weaken reporting and monitoring rules for toxic "forever chemicals" known as PFAS. Thousands of such synthetic ...

The late Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman once said the social responsibility of business is to make a profit. He contended that anything businesses do to invest their money elsewhere ...

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a new rule that would drastically reduce the number of wetlands protected by federal environmental regulations.

Looking to cut pollution from its fleet of diesel-burning school buses, an Oklahoma school district last year doubled its electric vehicles. The district requested the funding in November but was told ...

Climate change and environmental crises such as deforestation are critical problems in refugee situations. UNHCR estimates that 20-25 million trees are cut down in and around refugee settlements each ...

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The Gulf Environmental Protection and Stewardship Board at the National Academies explores the varied environments of the Gulf--including terrestrial, freshwater, coastal, and marine systems. The work ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a sweeping suspension of its enforcement of environmental laws Thursday, telling companies they would not need to meet environmental standards during ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In the face of the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts ...