Rivers have relatively less protection than do land or oceans and we lack effective mechanisms for measuring protection. A ...

This historic decision will bolster the municipality's ability to tackle its most pressing environmental challenges.

In 1972, Congress passed the Clean Water Act, which serves as the country’s main safeguard against water pollution. It grants the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of ...

FILE - Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, appears before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill ...

For business leaders, environmental responsibility cannot be episodic. It should be treated as a long-term strategic consideration.

Diving in a kelp forest in Monterey Bay recently, I watched a tubby 200-pound harbor seal follow a fellow diver, nibbling on his flippers. The diver, a graduate student, was using sponges to collect ...

A demonstrator's sign is placed in a traffic cone during a rally in support of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday, March 25, 2025, outside of the main office location for the Great Lakes ...

Newtown's Nettleton Preserve is near a property under consideration for a large housing development. Credit: Davis Dunavin / WSHU News This is the third of a five-part series exploring issues ...

LONG ISLAND-- Leaders in Nassau and Suffolk counties say they're hopeful that former Congressman Lee Zeldin, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for head of the Environmental Protection Agency, will ...