Water Pollution

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder testified before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing. A second House committee will hold a hearing on the water crisis in Flint, Mich. next week. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Energy and Environment

Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and top officials to be charged in Flint investigation: Report

Abby Smith · January 12, 2021 9:04 pm

Energy and Environment

Trump EPA issues science transparency restrictions that could tie Biden’s hands

Abby Smith · January 5, 2021 2:56 pm

Republicans and Democrats are more divided over the issue of climate change going into the November election, but support more wind and solar. (iStock Photo)

Bipartisan duo of senators team up to get plastics out of the ocean

Abby Smith · January 1, 2021 4:00 am

The Energy Department is collaborating with the private sector to accelerate energy efficient technologies that reduce plastic waste in oceans and landfills.

Masks add up to 6,240 metric tons of plastic pollution to oceans in 2020

Michael Lee · December 28, 2020 3:01 pm

The state of Michigan will pay $87 million so that Flint, Mich., can replace 18,000 lead pipes by 2020 to end the water crisis in that city. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Energy and Environment

Six years after Flint crisis, EPA overhauls rules to replace lead pipes

Abby Smith · December 22, 2020 7:34 pm

The Energy Department is collaborating with the private sector to accelerate energy efficient technologies that reduce plastic waste in oceans and landfills.

Energy and Environment

In swing-state Florida, Trump officials tout plan to keep plastics out of oceans

Abby Smith · October 19, 2020 7:41 pm

Six federally recognized Native Alaskan tribes and commercial fishing interests started what may well prove to be Big Green's biggest ballyhoo ever with a May 2010 letter to the Environmental Protection Agency against the proposed Pebble Mine -- a huge prospect of copper, gold, and molybdenum near the vast salmon runs of Bristol Bay. (AP/Al Grillo)

Energy and Environment

Alaska governor says to keep politics away from controversial gold mine opposed by Don Trump Jr.

Abby Smith · September 5, 2020 10:30 am

Beltway Confidential

How China is ruining oceans and stealing rivers

Tom Rogan · September 4, 2020 10:15 am

Energy and Environment

EPA’s Wheeler pledges to focus on pollution rather than climate in Trump second term

Abby Smith · September 3, 2020 10:30 pm

Coal ash is the waste left over from burning coal for electricity production. The waste is typically stored in large containment ponds. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Energy and Environment

EPA loosens controls on coal plants’ toxic waste that industry said would cause closures

Abby Smith · August 31, 2020 8:26 pm

Welded gas pipe sections sit before laying beside a trench.

Energy and Environment

In 100th lawsuit versus Trump, California leads states to fight overhaul of environmental permitting requirements

Abby Smith · August 28, 2020 6:44 pm

Workers drill test holes at the Pebble Mine near Bristol Bay in Southwest Alaska.

Energy and Environment

Controversial Alaska gold mine opposed by Trump Jr. isn’t dead, administration privately tells conservatives

Abby Smith · August 28, 2020 3:56 pm