Exxon's proposal for a plastics factory on the Gulf Coast raises alarms for a community already dealing with pollution.

“Taking a plastic bottle and turning it into part of a pair of sneakers that after a year will be buried or burned is not perpetuating a cycle,” said Kevin Budris, deputy director of Just Zero, a ...

USAID was a key player in renewable energy and disaster protection around the world — until Elon Musk showed up.

Nearly five years ago, the United States Department of Energy, or DOE, began an unusual partnership with the country’s largest lobbying group for the plastics industry.

Chris Wright is no hater of renewables, nuclear power, or transmission. But the Trump administration’s energy policy is a ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.

Sámi homelands, known as Sápmi, stretch across northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, and the report’s authors ...

An annual tribunal where farmworkers share their experiences and needs has spurred laws guaranteeing overtime pay and heat ...

Michigan wants to restart a nuclear power plant it had shut down, but the bumpy early days of the Trump presidency spook ...

Oil companies cheered Trump’s recent calls for a more streamlined process and a series of energy-related executive orders he ...

As climate change complicates growing the region’s historically emblematic crops, like olives and lemons, Amata is seeing ...

It will be hard for President Trump to revoke FEMA funding — but a GOP-led Congress could slow down recovery in Los Angeles.