Environment News

The National School Transportation Association presented its "Go Yellow, Go Green" award to The Trans Group for achievements in emission reductions and environmental sustainability during the association's 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting & Convention in Charleston, S.C., last week.

The announcement by Alpha Natural Resources dealt another blow to Appalachia's iconic, but dwindling, fossil fuel industry.

Your teeth can tell stories about you, and not just that you always forget to floss.

Environmentalists are enlisting minority groups such as African-Americans and Latinos to help them stop use of fossil fuels in the name of ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE .

War and preparations for war are -- although you'll never hear it from well-funded environmental groups -- huge causes of environmental destruction .

Federal environment officials have failed to adequately oversee hundreds of thousands of wells used to inject toxic oil and gas drilling waste deep underground, according to a new congressional report .

The death toll has rose to 27 in the landslide tragedy that took place yesterday in Pune's Malin village.

"There aren't a lot of functioning democracies around the world that work this way where you can basically have millionaires and billionaires bankrolling whoever they want, however they want, in some cases undisclosed.

Gov. Jerry Brown was about to leave Mexico's capital after four days of talks pressing on the environment, and he wasn't sure, broadly speaking, how his diplomacy might add up.

Recently, on July 19, 2104, Sacramento had a solar cooker festival in Land Park.

This week, the Environmental Protection Agency will hold public hearings in Washington D.C., Atlanta, Denver and Pittsburgh to receive comments on its proposed Clean Power Plan.

The trumpeter swan has been removed from Alberta's threatened species list, but four other species have been added due to declining populations.

The world's oceans are vast and deep, yet rapidly advancing technology and the quest for extracting resources from previously unreachable depths is beginning to put the deep seas on the cusp of peril, an international team of scientists has warned.

Facilities that exceeded wastewater discharge permit requirements in 2013 earned environmental awards from King County's Industrial Waste Program for dedication to business practices that protect regional water quality.

Facilities that exceeded wastewater discharge permit requirements in 2013 earned environmental awards from King County's Industrial Waste Program for dedication to business practices that protect regional water quality.

"We have implemented an official policy to not ship any shark fin products," Phoonsak Chumchuay, the managing director of Thai Airways' cargo division, told dpa Wednesday.

Webster Parish District Attorney Schuyler Marvin tells The Times the plea was scheduled to have been entered Tuesday but was postponed because of pending action in federal court with the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.

Stanford University scientists have produced the first-ever high-resolution carbon geography of Peru, a country whose tropical forests are among the world's most vital in terms of mitigating the global impact of climate change.

THE threat of swingeing new charges looks set to kill off one of the most historic watercress beds in Hampshire.

Gov. Tom Corbett was expected to address a rally of coal industry and mining supporters opposing stricter Environmental Protection Agency regulations being proposed to regulate pollution from coal-burning power plants.