Energy and Environment

Coming just days before the inauguration, the new expenditure is likely to spark controversy.

For now, there are no immediate concerns about the staff’s safety.

The Montana congressman is also likely to face questions on his position on climate change.

If they are successfully torpedoed, Congress could prevent similar rules from being resurrected.

They want the Prime Minister to use the UK’s “special relationship" with the U.S. to urge Trump to accept climate change.

On its way out the door, the Obama administration makes one last defense of its controversial “Waters of the United States” rule.

Intact forest landscapes are “the last portions of the Earth that are not significantly affected by human influence.”

William Happer has argued that the "benefits that more [carbon dioxide] brings from increased agricultural yields and modest warming far outweigh any harm."

Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo don't seem to think climate change will be a big global risk.

More than 90 percent of coral in the Sekisei Lagoon in Okinawa has bleached.

The standards would result in a fleetwide average fuel economy sticker values of 36 miles a gallon by the model year 2025, 10 miles a gallon higher than the current fleet average, EPA said.

A new report recommends major updates to the contested federal metric known as the "social cost of carbon."

'It appears that modernization of the Federal coal program is warranted,' the report concludes.

These wetlands in the Congo Basin might store more carbon than the United States emits in 20 years.

The move comes after the Trump transition team sent the department a questionnaire asking for the names of personnel who had attended meetings related to climate change.

For the first time, a bumble bee species has landed on the endangered species list. The rusty patched bumble bee was prolific a generation ago. Now it's in danger of becoming extinct.

Two U.S. plants that capture carbon emissions from coal are becoming operational.

Scientists are debating what will happen once a huge iceberg breaks free from the Larsen C ice shelf.

“The ocean never forgets” -- how greenhouse gas emissions can cause centuries of sea level rise.

Obama argues that embracing clean energy isn't just a moral choice, but an economic one.

The federal polar bear conservation plan says the animal's future in the Arctic is grim unless greenhouse gas emissions are dramatically reduced.

A growing rift is setting the ice shelf up for an imminent loss of nearly 2,000 square miles of ice, scientists say.

Nationwide, an estimated 6 million or more lead pipes remain in use, bringing increasingly suspect water to as many as 22 million Americans.

For the second time in less than a month, President Obama took an action that closed the Atlantic to oil exploration and drilling.

A new report suggests that the United States could become a net energy exporter by 2026.

Energy Department calls for new action to protect against evolving threats.

'It’s really unlike any other place on the planet,'

Your cup of coffee, your chair and other creature comforts were once part of some wild animal's habitat. A new study pinpoints areas where human trade threatens endangered wildlife.

Future climate change could cause a major ocean current to collapse — with effects that radiate all over the world.

The debate over the so-called global warming 'pause' just got reopened.

Meet the Congressional Review Act, a tool about to be used more than ever before.

House Republicans are changing the way Congress calculates the cost of transferring federal lands to the states and other entities.

Proponents have defended the move as a way of protecting businesses from having to comply with additional regulations.

The new energy efficiency rules can't be published in the Federal Register until after Trump's inauguration.

The letter by attorneys general from New York, California, and other liberal states sets the stage for one of the biggest environmental battles of his administration.

Brazil is seeing a rise in deforestation and the threat of anti-environmental legislation.

A new analysis finds that temperatures around the North Pole in November and December were 'unprecedented in the satellite era from 1979 onwards.'

Amid the gloom, renewable energy proved a real bright spot.

Disengagement by the United States has the potential to make things worse — but it will depend on how the entire world responds.

A defamation lawsuit filed by a high-profile climate scientist will be allowed to proceed, an appeals court ruled on Thursday.

Meet the 'Warm Arctic, Cold Continents' hypothesis.

The office will not investigate the Trump transition team over an Energy Department questionnaire.

It all comes down to a metric known as the social cost of carbon.

Ryan Zinke seemed to take climate change seriously -- back in 2010.

The project, with a conditional $ 2 billion federal loan guarantee, would store carbon dioxide from the process of making methanol.