environmental concerns

WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, President Barack Obama chided Republicans and Democrats alike for treating the Keystone XL pipeline as a signal of whethe...

PARIS (AP) — A survey across 40 countries around the world found most people see global warming as a serious problem, and most of them want their gove...

A poisonous substance linked to a massive algae bloom off the West Coast has prompted officials to halt recreational shellfishing from Washington to C...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Investors and regulators put more pressure on Volkswagen on Wednesday after the company said it had understated the carbon d...

PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande hopes to use a state visit to China to boost difficult climate negotiations, a month before a U.N. con...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The operator of a closed radioactive waste dump that caught fire in southern Nevada had trouble over the years with leaky shipments a...

BONN, Germany (AP) — The trillion-dollar question of who should pay for global warming is coming to a head in talks on an international climate pact, ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Investigators are blaming the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a 3 million-gallon wastewater spill from a Colorado gold...

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Elephant tusks, leopard heads, crocodile skin purses and tiger skins — more than 1.5 million items in all — fill the shelv...

SEATTLE (AP) — Federal biologists flying a drone have taken thousands of rich images of endangered Puget Sound orcas showing the whales are in good co...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — African countries on Sunday dismissed an early draft of a U.N. climate accord as "unbalanced" and demanded amendments to even conside...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen's flagship brand plans to change its diesel technology in Europe and North America as well as develop new hybrid ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Amid the bloodbaths of 21st-century America, you might think that there would be a lot of research into the causes of gun violence, an...

VALPARAISO, Chile (AP) — President Barack Obama declared new marine sanctuaries in Lake Michigan and the tidal waters of Maryland on Monday, while Chi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department and five states have finalized a settlement worth more than $20 billion arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horiz...

OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — When Volkswagen opened its gleaming pollution testing center near the California coast, a top executive from the German automake...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has set a new national ozone standard, tightening limits on the smog-forming pollution linked to asthma and...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators on Friday restored ambitious rules to cut transportation fuel emissions 10 percent within 5 years, a d...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest developments from the state visit that President Barack Obama is hosting for Chinese President Xi Jinping. All times loca...

PARIS (AP) — The Alps are the birthplace of downhill skiing and a crucible for mountain climbing — but now the French government is trying to help the...