The Porcupine caribou herd is one of the last large, healthy, migratory caribou herds on the planet. But these caribou are threatened by oil drilling in the Arctic Refuge
Production was stopped on Wednesday evening after thousands of litres of oil leaked from a storage container aboard the Hibernia oil platform off the coast of St. John's.
Sunnyside Gold Corp. has spent millions of dollars trying to clean up the site. This month, it told the EPA it won't carry out the cleanup work ordered by the agency.
In a major victory for health equity, California lawmakers recently signed off on a state budget trailer bill that will fund improvements to the state's drinking water system.
The EPA recently said it needs more testing to ensure that shallow and deep, underground water sources are safe. The site sits above two important sources of drinking water, the Dawson and Denver aquifers.
Andrew Manganas, owner of Panthera Painting, pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Water Act and cheating his employees while painting the George Wade Bridge.
Across the globe, urban developments conceived by corporations have been pitched as technological and eco-friendly utopias, but many are prohibitively expensive and catalysts for land dispossession and social inequality.
Transport chiefs have been accused of creating a “two-tier" Capital where tourists will breathe cleaner air than residents under proposals to tackle air pollution.
Colombia's constitutional court has upheld its own restrictions on the aerial spraying of the herbicide glyphosate to eliminate coca but said its use could be reinstated if the government meets certain conditions.
Four workers received small external radiation doses and a planned outage of the Spallation Neutron Source was started a few days early after an unexpected “pressure transient" in March, according to Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The soldiers died from toxic fumes while trying to blow up an illegal gold mining installation underground. France has deployed hundreds of troops to French Guiana's remote jungle to clamp down on the criminal activity.
The EPA rejected a petition by environmental and public health groups to ban a widely used pesticide that has been linked to neurological damage in children, though a federal court said last year there was “no justification” for rejecting the ban.
The Environmental Protection Agency is getting rid of a policy that let pollution enforcement officials drop in at power and chemical plants for unannounced inspections.
This governor has done more to address climate change in four months than Rick Scott did in eight years. It's a welcome surprise because while in Congress he had a measly 2% lifetime approval rating from the League of Conservation Voters.
The Environmental Protection Agency will not halt a pesticide linked with brain damage from being sprayed on crops, the agency said Thursday in response to a lawsuit.
Environmental groups are demanding one of Britain's biggest water companies be made to pay tens of millions of pounds to restore the damage to habitats and wildlife caused by thousands of pollution spills into the rivers and beaches across the south-east of England.
Wildfire smoke isn't great for anybody, but a new rule California regulators vote on today recognizes that it's particularly dangerous for workers while they're on the job.
Rising temperatures this week could lead to unhealthy air quality, particularly for people with respiratory conditions, as the heat combines with pollution from vehicle emissions and other sources, says the American Lung Association.
Local authorities in Paris have ordered a deep clean at schools around the fire-damaged Notre-Dame cathedral, a city official said on Thursday, following a media report claiming the extent of contamination has been covered up.
The Sierra Club is threatening to sue the owners of a coal-fired power plant near Pittsburgh for releasing water that is too hot into the Allegheny River.
Cambodia's Environment Ministry yesterday said a total of 83 containers filled with unwanted rubbish at Sihanoukville Autonomous Port will be sent back to their original source.
Sarah James’ desire to preserve the Neets'aii Gwich'in way of life drove her into the thick of the battle over oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
