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It's the first state to reject new national science education standards. And it just so happens to be the biggest coal-producing state.
His plan would increase pollution, accelerate global warming, despoil public lands, and stymie Americans’ efforts to get out of their cars.
Lawmakers are retreating on basic reforms when they should be looking to the future, and creating even more dramatic changes.
Dangerous chemicals are being applied to GMO test fields on Kauai at a much higher rate than on most U.S. farms, an analysis of new data reveals.
The fossil-fuel industry is kicking up a fuss about the Obama administration's "social cost of carbon" calculations. Now the public is invited to comment too.
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Park Service gave everyone freedom to celebrate as they wished. Was that really the best it could do?
The latest data is out on the prevalence of global warming denial among the U.S. public. And it isn't pretty.
This is a few steps more complicated than burning your trash pile.
This time it's a spill of 100,000 gallons of coal slurry from a coal processing facility in West Virginia. Thanks, Patriot Coal!