The U.S. Bureau of Land Management released a draft environmental impact statement today for a proposed Nevada lithium mine that would push the endangered wildflower Tiehm’s buckwheat to extinction despite its protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Rejecting the advice of scientists, the Environmental Protection Agency on April 15 proposed to retain existing air quality standards for soot and nitrogen. Portions of the standards have not been updated for decades.

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) announced nearly $830 million in grant awards for 80 projects nationwide that will help states and local communities save taxpayers money while strengthening surface-transportation systems and making them more resilient to extreme weather events worsened by the climate crisis, flooding, sea-level rise, heat waves, and other disasters.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on April 12 finalized Congressionally-mandated energy efficiency standards for general service lamps (GSLs), which include the most common types of residential and commercial lightbulbs.

The European Commission has approved a €2.2 billion German scheme to support investments in the decarbonisation of industrial production processes to foster the transition to a net-zero economy, in line with the Green Deal Industrial Plan.

The European Union (EU) and India on April 9 launched an Expression of Interest for start-ups working in the area of Battery Recycling Technologies for Electric Vehicles (EVs) for a matchmaking event.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) restricted six toxic PFAS chemicals found in drinking water today, the first time the agency has regulated these ubiquitous "forever chemicals" in water.

The Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reached a settlement April 10 with Colonial Oil Industries Inc. that will require the company to pay a civil penalty of more than $2.8 million and spend an estimated $12.2 million to offset the detrimental human health and environmental impacts of Colonial’s alleged failure to meet obligations under the Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program and gasoline volatility standards.

The Strengthening Resilient Water Resource Management in the Eastern Caribbean project has completed the initial stages of its preparatory phase, with the hosting of an inception workshop in St. Vincent and the Grenadines at the end of March.

Furniture manufacturers producing for IKEA are sourcing wood from some of Europe’s last remaining old-growth forests in the Romanian Carpathians, including in Natura 2000 protected areas, new report finds.

A major biomass and carbon capture and storage project slated for California’s Central Valley abruptly ended this week after the company, under scrutiny from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, withdrew federal and local permits.

In response to legal objections filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, the Environmental Protection Agency has ruled that Colorado failed to ensure flaring at a large gas processing plant north of Denver effectively reduces smog-forming emissions.

The corrupt U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on April 04 announced its selections for $20 billion in grant awards under two competitions within the bogus $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) that is more about vote-buying than climate.

New research from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million tonnes of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor.

Thanks to more aggressive conservation efforts in some countries, global forest losses fell significantly last year.

A new Bureau of Land Management plan to open 40,000 acres of the Wayne National Forest to fracking for oil and gas looks almost identical to one a federal judge rejected in 2020. The public can comment on the plan in writing or during online meetings Monday and Tuesday.

The project on “Improving sanitation and hygiene in flood vulnerable communities for improving public health situation” was officially launched in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 2nd April 2024.

Eight out of 10 people support cutting plastic production revealed a new Greenpeace International report ahead of the fourth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC4) meeting for a Global Plastics Treaty to be held in Ottawa, Canada this month.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently released Decarbonizing the U.S. Economy by 2050: A National Blueprint for the Buildings Sector, a comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions from buildings by 65% by 2035 and 90% by 2050.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services reported killing 375,045 native animals in 2023, according to recent data released by the program.