Environment

Oklahoma has become the world capital of earthquakes.

"We know we can't expect corporate polluters to look out for our health, but we should be able to count on our enforcement agencies to protect us."

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently approved a permit to lay a tar sands crude pipeline from Illinois to Indiana. Environmental groups are doing all they can to stop it by requesting a full National Environmental Policy Act review for Enbridge's proposal.

The Office of Research and Development has been at the front line of virtually every environmental crisis. Trump wants to cut its funding in half.

A world of solidarity economics or climate profiteering?

The Trump administration said there will be a 90-day pause to allow the Interior Department and other agencies to work with project developers to determine if the perceived security threats can be mitigated.

The pipeline would have crossed more than 88 waterways, 44 wetlands, 30 parks, and 33 conservation easements. Experts say the cancelation demonstrates that federal regulators must stop approving gas pipelines that fail to show they are needed in the first place.

The climate crisis requires us to flatten the curve of our greenhouse gas emissions and toxic, polluting society.

Financial firms are still fighting to get billions out of the bankrupt island as it tries to rebuild.

Hundreds of blazes could push threatened species closer to extinction. But the roots of Australia’s wildlife crisis are indicative of a much larger problem.