environment

The Biden administration has announced a wide-ranging enforcement strategy aimed at holding industrial polluters accountable for damage done to poor and minority communities. The strategy includes creation of an Office of Environmental Justice within the Justice Department. It also reinstates a dormant program that allowed fines paid by industry as part of a settlement go to community activities such as...

Students representing about two dozen Vermont schools descended on the capital city of Montpelier Friday, demanding high-level focus on slowing climate change. Several teenagers rallying for the planet told NECN and NBC10 Boston climate change is one of, if not the, defining issues of their generation. “I think it just starts with listening,” Montpelier High School senior Gabe Groveman said,…

Students representing about two dozen schools descended on Vermont’s capital city.

It’s a “pause” for a developer and cause for celebration for project opponents. A proposal to build a large salmon farm near Acadia National Park that Norwegian-backed American Aquafarms called a $250 million investment has stalled because the Maine Department of Marine Resources denied a permit application. According to the department’s commissioner, Patrick Keliher, Maine officials are “no longer...

Earth Day 2022 is far from the first. But when was the first Earth Day celebrated? And who organized it? Learn Earth Day’s origins and how it’s evolved since.

What has long been an annual reminder from conservation groups in Vermont has taken on new urgency during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many people rediscovered outdoor recreation.  Those people are now being asked to remember to do their part to protect natural resources this time of year. The Green Mountain Club and the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and...

New vehicles sold in the U.S. will have to travel an average of at least 40 miles per gallon of gasoline in 2026 under new rules unveiled by the government.

Finance, geopolitics and cybersecurity will all be crucial in determining the scope and success of any energy transition.

One of the early casualties of Russia’s territorial ambitions in Ukraine was the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, a massive energy project that cost $11 billion.

Biden officials said the new funding will allow them to retrofit about 450,000 homes and slash monthly energy bills for families.

There are rapidly rising concerns over what Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine will mean for European economies.

Millions of Americans waiting for news on the future of their student debt got no more information from Biden’s 2023 budget proposal.

Germany has some advice for Russian President Vladimir Putin: think about the consequences of asking for energy payments in rubles.

Both the energy transition and energy security have become topics of significant debate and discussion.

Source Global is a climate startup that uses hydropanels to produce clean water out of the air. It’s backed by Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he has Covid again, following an earlier bout in November 2020.

Mount Trashmore Park in Virginia Beach, Virginia, was the city’s landfill in the 1950s and ‘60s. But once the mountain of trash became an unsustainable eyesore, the city had a novel idea — and Mount Trashmore became the first landfill to be converted into a recreational park. Greg Bledsoe takes his Family Geography Project to Virginia Beach to see this...

Many environmental, social and corporate governance investors are seeing portfolio values decline this year. If it continues, how patient will ESG investors be?

In 2021, the European Union imported 155 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Russia, according to the International Energy Agency.

European stocks closed higher on Monday as investors continued monitoring developments in the war between Ukraine and Russia.