Pollution

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, center, who has declared himself the interim president of Venezuela, greets supporters as he arrives at a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela.

Beltway Confidential

Fact-free fearmongering: Don’t believe new trumped-up fossil fuel ‘death’ statistics

Katie Tahuahua · March 22, 2020 11:00 am

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters following escalation of tensions this week between the U.S. and Iran, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The House will vote Thursday on a measure limiting President Donald Trump's ability to take military action against Iran as Democratic criticism of the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general intensified.

Energy and Environment

Fate of ‘forever chemicals’ with Trump EPA as House passes bill scorned by Senate GOP

Abby Smith · January 10, 2020 4:52 pm

Mandy Gunasekara is returning to EPA as chief of staff after leading the agency's air-policy office.

Energy and Environment

‘Meaningless statistics mongering’: Trump environment enforcers push back at criticism over declining numbers

Abby Smith · November 12, 2019 10:57 pm

A dolphin is seen swimming.

Dolphins in the Potomac: Cleaner waters prove alluring for marine life near DC

Ellie Bufkin · October 1, 2019 8:09 pm

A Masai child walks near a village in the Amboseli national park, Kenya, March 21 2007.

Save 7 million lives per year by increasing access to hydrocarbon fuels

Chris Wright · August 16, 2019 4:00 am

Thousands of fish die in bourbon-infused water following Jim Beam fire

Zach Halaschak · July 10, 2019 10:54 am

EPA moves to relax policy that applied stricter emissions rules to polluters

Josh Siegel · June 25, 2019 8:04 pm

Birds fly past at sun set as smoke emits from a chimney at a factory in Ahmadabad, India, Monday, Dec. 8, 2014.

There is no climate fix without China and India

Washington Examiner · June 5, 2019 12:20 pm

In this Nov. 12, 2015 photo, Mt. Everest is seen from the way to Kalapatthar in Nepal.

Effort underway to clean Mt. Everest of trash, bodies

Zach Halaschak · May 2, 2019 6:46 pm

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures while addressing the crowd.

Energy and Environment

Filipino president says he will ‘declare war’ if Canada does not take back its trash

John Gage · April 24, 2019 8:51 pm

Beltway Confidential

‘Leave No Trace’ reprimanded for negative environmental impacts

Katie Anderson · April 12, 2019 4:00 am

Letitia James.

Energy and Environment

Democratic attorneys general trumpet report charging Trump’s climate rollbacks would increase emissions, harm public health

Josh Siegel · March 5, 2019 8:16 pm