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The U.S. counties with the most egregious water quality violations are concentrated in four states: West Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and...
Western Colorado oil industry stakeholders are suing the Centennial State, in a bid that they say serves to protect energy security and job interests...
California scientists have determined that dogs might be able to help predict the spread of a dangerous fungus, which has surged in recent years due...
This excerpt comes from the forthcoming book Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America, which details how a set of toxic...
Only minimal amounts of untapped oil and gas resources remain in the historic Los Angeles fossil fuel production basin, according to the U.S....
Climate-induced warming is fueling the proliferation of insects keen on invading Colorado’s forests and leaving the trees they devour for dead, a...
Uncontrolled livestock grazing is destroying streamside habitats that are critical to endangered plants and animals in Arizona and New Mexico, a new...
Five out of seven Colorado River basin states are failing to maximize a critical resource that could help alleviate the region’s longstanding water...
Researchers have identified “forever chemicals” in household dust nearby a North Carolina factory — indicating that dust may be an additional...
The Trump administration’s unprecedented decision to deny a delivery of water to Mexico is raising alarm among experts, who fear it could jeopardize...
The Trump administration has denied a special request from Mexico for the delivery of Colorado River water to the city of Tijuana — marking the...
California air quality regulators announced the launch of a first-in-nation satellite data project Friday, with the aim of monitoring and minimizing...
California Democrats are urging newly confirmed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin to visit a fraught wastewater treatment...
A subset of North American iguanas likely landed on an isolated group of South Pacific islands about 34 million years ago — having rafted some 5,000...
California air quality regulators are pushing back against a recent ad campaign launched by new-car dealers, which maintain that stringent...
Wildfires and other climate-induced weather extremes are posing an increased threat to cancer patients by shifting their treatment trajectories and...
The ongoing surge of greenhouse gas emissions in the near-Earth environment could cause dramatic declines in the number of satellites orbiting the...
Federal funding freezes and staffing cuts are setting off alarms about the future of the Colorado River, a critical artery that supplies water to some...
Butterflies are disappearing from the United States at an alarming rate, with their total population declining by more than a fifth over two decades,...
Senate Democrats from the U.S. West on Monday urged the Department of the Interior to end a funding freeze that could endanger the flow of the...
Federal officials have declared they will not order soil sampling after completing debris removal on Los Angeles properties that succumbed to the...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has requested that Congress appropriate nearly $40 billion to support communities affected by the wildfires that...
Federal officials will be investigating California's high-speed rail plans, with the goal of determining if a portion of the project merits $4 billion...
Lead negotiators from the Colorado River's Upper Basin states expressed a dual sense of uncertainty and urgency on Tuesday, as a deadline to determine...
As a charred Los Angeles resurfaces from the infernal flames that engulfed the region last month, questions loom as to how residents will rebuild —...
Renewable energy generation is surging across many of the country’s red-leaning states, positioning some to outpace their bluer peers in a national...
Manufacturers have been quietly abandoning the use of toxic ingredients in their products, in response to California's strict chemical disclosure...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) threw his support Monday behind legislation aimed at guaranteeing that wildfire-impacted homeowners, rather than...
A Southern California Democrat blasted President Trump on Thursday for ordering a release of water in the state's Central Valley, describing the move...
Veteran firefighters who responded to the 2023 blazes in Maui, Hawaii, had greater levels of "forever chemicals" in their blood in comparison to those...
The two biggest blazes that recently ravaged the Los Angeles metropolitan region may have caused property damage and capital losses of up to $164...
President Trump's order to release billions of gallons of water in California's Central Valley last week — with the purported goal of dousing fires...
Registration of Tesla's electric vehicles (EVs) in California plummeted by 11.6 percent in 2024, a new report has found. The company's market share...
After multiple days of heavy rains provided Southern California with significant relief from a spate of catastrophic wildfires, experts are now...
The infernal blazes burning in Southern California are raising concerns about the potential airborne hazards they may be leaving behind. Even once the...
Five wild-born elephants that have long inhabited a two-acre plot in a Southern Colorado zoo will not be able to pursue their own release, the state's...
The Biden administration on Thursday took steps to safeguard an iconic bird species of the Wester United States — but did so in only two out of the...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Thursday issued an executive order to expedite the availability of temporary housing in areas ravaged by the...
California Democrats have authorized $50 million in state funding as part of an overall drive to protect residents from what lawmakers believe to be...
Federal meteorologists have issued their most dire wildfire warning for Los Angeles and Ventura counties, as winds threaten to pick up in the early...
An infernal barrage of blazes continues to ravage the Los Angeles metropolitan region, where the death toll has now risen to at least 10 individuals....
The blazes burning across the Los Angeles region are not only devastating property and lives, but also fueling political argument over how to fight...
Total damages from the devastating wildfires scorching Southern California could amount to between $52 billion and $57 billion in economic losses,...
Snowpack in the mountains of California is near average for this time of year, after a recent series of storms provided a much-needed boost to the...
The treacherous combination of rising temperatures and dried-up fuels has made Canadian forest much more prone to severe wildfires in recent...
Although 2024 — the warmest year on record — has been a fairly dark year when it comes to climate change, there have been several notable bright...
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The Biden administration on Wednesday approved California's trailblazing rules that would set stricter-than-federal emissions standards, in a bid...
Certain pricier styles of smartwatch wristband may not just be helping Americans stay fit — they may be exposing unsuspecting wearers to a hefty...
The Biden administration on Tuesday announced its conditional approval of a loan guarantee for Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) of up to $15...