What is it like to study one of North America’s most elusive mammals? Meet wildlife ecologist Tyler Rudolph, whose boreal caribou research may help the threatened animal survive.
While the scavengers have a bad reputation in India and the Middle East, experts say striped hyenas are really rather gentle—not to mention good for the environment.
The EPA is taking dangerous, unlawful, and alarming steps to dismantle the long-standing TSCA program for reviewing the safety of new chemicals before they are allowed on the market.
Schools, hospitals and offices across the country will start saving money on their utility bills as a result of the new energy efficiency standards for fluorescent tube lights going into effect Friday. With more than 2 billion of these bulbs…
The tariff penalties imposed by President Trump on imported solar panel components today will hurt one of the fastest-growing sectors in the U.S. economy and significantly increase the costs of new solar systems to power America’s homes and businesses.
The Supreme Court ruled today that multiple challenges to the Clean Water Rule should be heard by district courts, reversing a prior decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Ohio finding jurisdiction to review consolidated…
The Senate voted today on a measure paving the way to reopen the federal government soon, which has been shut down over a budget impasse between Congress and President Trump.
For at least half of his presidency, Donald Trump has itched for a budget impasse to force the government to close. “Our country needs a good shutdown,” he said last spring, to fix what he labeled a “mess” in Congress.It…
Boreal caribou could go extinct in Ontario within the lifetimes of children today. Why, then, is the provincial government proposing logging industry exemptions to their Endangered Species Act?
It’s been an action-packed two weeks since the Trump administration released its polluters-first program to drill for oil and gas offshore the United States. The draft plan is an oil industry dream, an extreme first draft proposing to expose the…
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