Environment

The policy the state uses in evaluating requests for fossil fuel permits is unconstitutional because it does not allow agencies to evaluate greenhouse gas emissions.

Stormwater can be a significant source of water pollution and a public health concern.

The discovery is part of the Air Force’s ongoing investigation of its nuclear missile bases.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the settlement on Monday.

The City's Solid Waste Division has done this to prevent fair visitors from parking at the depot and walking across Wyoming Boulevard to the fairgrounds.

The White House's plan would allow conservationists and others to lease federally owned land to restore it, much the same way oil companies buy leases to drill and ranchers pay to graze cattle.

An energy policy that was challenged by the lawsuit was repealed in March by the state Legislature, and Montana's attorney general wanted that part of the case dismissed.

All that rain and snow means California can provide 100% of the water requested by cities and farms for the first time in years.

The settlements require them to pay a combined $9.25 million in civil penalties.

Those older forests cover an area larger than California but are under threat by fires, insects, disease and other side-effects of climate change.