Although the results are preliminary - the study is still ongoing - they are a boost to a natural gas industry that has fought complaints from environmental groups and property owners who call fracking dangerous.
Twelve states are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for not complying with their public-records requests for information on the implementation of the Clean Air Act.
The spigot will run dry, toilets won’t flush and there will be no cooling shower on sweltering days for more than 100,000 people in Prince George’s County as crews wrestle to repair a major water main that serves their homes and businesses.
Democratic Gov. Lincoln Chafee, citing a tradition of separating church and state, on Tuesday vetoed legislation that would have authorized the issuance of license plates that say ‘‘Choose Life’’ to raise money for a Christian crisis pregnancy center that opposes abortion.
President Obama's new climate action plan requires a lot of cooperation from the states, but there will be numerous challenges in getting all of them on board given the diversity of their current environmental and energy profiles.
The White House late Wednesday said it would veto the 608-page farm bill because it omitted SNAP spending and did not "contain sufficient commodity and crop insurance reforms."
More than a year after Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the creation of the nation's first urban infrastructure bank it has not broken ground on a single venture. The slow start is being attributed to the lack of a working model, which means building policies for how the bank will operate from scratch.
As investigators delve into why the Yarnell Hill Fire killed more firefighters than any U.S. wildfire in 80 years, fire experts are renewing calls to make prescribed burns easier to accomplish.
BART trains will be running again beginning Friday afternoon after the transit district and its striking unions agreed to a 30-day extension of the current contract.
America's largest commercial ports have failed to shore up defenses against potential cyber attacks, a new study contends, raising concerns about the vulnerability of computer networks that help move energy, foodstuff and other goods to market.
As a result, almost everyone agrees that the plan that sits on the governor’s desk is too broad in what it allows and will require a legislative fix in the next few months.
Four U.S. senators are hoping to answer a question states have long been asking: where will the country permanently deposit the thousands of tons of nuclear waste piling up at sites ill-suited to handle the load?
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