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At a big coal summit being held near U.N. climate negotiations, the industry argues that its fancy-pants new plants are clean. Scientists call bullshit.
A failing fracking company says Canadians owe it $250 million because of a ban on fracking beneath the St. Lawrence River in Quebec.
When Midwestern states and their industrial friends sued over a new EPA rule, they got just what they wanted: to keep polluting, and poisoning, as long as possible.
According to new research, severe thunderstorms are likely to hit the U.S. with more frequency over the coming century.
A spill of fracked oil from a pipeline was discovered two weeks ago, but we're only just learning about it.
The EPA has lowered the amount of biofuels required to be blended into gasoline. That's a good thing, even though it makes oil companies happy.
The killers: Cheaper alternatives, dropping demand, and rising costs of generating electricity with dirty coal.
Here's a bullet-point summation of what Nathanael Johnson learned about GMOs in 2013.
Now energetic kids in rural Ghana can charge up LED lanterns by playing, so they can study at night.