The latest news coverage on climate change and environmental protection issues.
LOS ANGELES — Miscommunication led utilities to mistakenly cut power to customers in several California cities during unprecedented demand on energy supplies, operators of the state’s electricity grid acknowledged Wednesday while warning the continuing extreme heat could prompt much larger rollin...
Climate crisis and student debt among the factors cited, with the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade a near-term catalyst.
U.S. lawmakers are starting to get back to work, and one key task is agreeing on a spending measure in order to avoid a partial government shutdown.
A record-setting heat wave made life miserable in much of the West on Tuesday, with California stretching into its second week of excessive heat that taxed the state's power supply with record-setting demand and brought it...
The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday denied a request by Cheniere Energy, a leading U.S. producer of liquefied natural gas, to exempt two Gulf Coast plants from a federal air pollution rule.
Shares of Ballard Power Systems Inc. ran up 3.4% in premarket trading Tuesday, after the fuel cell company announced an order from India-based rail system integrator Medha Servo Drives. The order comes after Medha was con...
California's chance of power outages will grow in the coming days, as the state prepares to enter the most brutal stretch yet of an ongoing heat wave, officials said Sunday.
Two people have died in a blaze that ripped through a Northern California town, said Siskiyou County Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue.
Mississippi’s capital has taken a step closer toward restoring water service. Jackson officials announced Sunday that water pressure has been restored to most of the city's customers.
Seventeen states with vehicle emission standards tied to rules established in California face weighty decisions on whether to follow that state's strictest-in-the nation new rules that require all new cars, pickups and SUV...
Shares of Dollar Tree Inc. fell 1.0% in afternoon trading Friday, and the Canada-listed shares of Dollarama Inc. slipped 0.4%, after Canada's Environment Defence announced this week a report that said heavy metals, such ...
White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy is stepping down, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Friday. The press secretary said the Biden administration is "very sad to lose her" and "will hav...
An environmental activist group on Friday glued themselves around the speaker's chair in the U.K. House of Commons.
Heavy fighting continued Friday near Europe's largest nuclear power plant in a Russian-controlled area of eastern Ukraine, a day after experts from the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency voiced concerns about structural damage...
California firefighters worked in extreme conditions Thursday as they battled wildfires in rural areas north of Los Angeles and east of San Diego amid a blistering heat wave that is predicted to last through Labor Day.
Taken together, along with tens of billions in budget money for climate proposals, the policies marked one of the state's most groundbreaking years for climate action, some advocates said.
California wildfires erupted Wednesday in rural areas, racing through bone-dry brush and prompting evacuations as the state sweltered under a heat wave that could last through Labor Day.
General Motors said Wednesday that a new electric vehicle battery plant built in Ohio has started producing cells, which could help customers get federal tax credits.
It's been quiet — too quiet — this Atlantic hurricane season, meteorologists and residents of storm-prone areas whisper almost as if not to tempt fate.
Mississippi's capital city is grappling with multiple water problems — too much on the ground after heavy rainfall in the past week, and not enough safe water coming through the pipes for people to use.
