Last week, at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, many countries made commitments to cut back fossil fuel emissions to fight climate change. China announced it would curb emissions by up ...

As many communities across the country remove lead water lines following the Flint, Michigan, crisis, there’s concern they may be “leaping from the frying pan into the fire” if they replace those ...

The Trump administration announced last week that it would take additional water from Northern California and send it south to farms and communities in the San Joaquin Valley, drawing strong criticism ...

One rarely hears about someone in the military defying a direct order, but that’s what’s happening in Tucson, Arizona, because of a recent Supreme Court decision. Last May, the Environmental ...

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in Northern California was the go-to lender for renewable energy and clean technology firms. SVB understood the financing mechanisms unique to those industries and was the ...

Last week, President Trump exercised the first veto of his second term by canceling a clean water project in Colorado that had been approved unanimously by the House and the Senate. The project is ...

The seven states in the Colorado River Basin have been unable to agree on a plan to manage the river’s water, as long-term drought and climate change shrink available supplies. The three states in the ...

The first anniversary of the war in Ukraine has passed, and its effects on the people and the environment will last for generations to come. Thousands of people have been killed, millions displaced, ...

In Hawai’i, wildfires on Maui claimed at least 93 lives as of August 13, making it the deadliest wildfire in the U.S. in a century. According to AccuWeather, there could be $8 to $10 billion in losses ...

The West saw heavy levels of precipitation this past winter in many areas, and that’s good news for water levels in Lake Mead on the Colorado River, the country’s largest reservoir. According to the ...

In just 24 hours, the area, which is generally very dry, received more rain than what typically falls in a year, from Storm Daniel in the Mediterranean, similar to a hurricane and called a “medicane.” ...

The U.S. is facing a slow-rolling crisis over access to clean, safe drinking water but lacks a coordinated response to address the root causes of the problems, many of which are aging infrastructure.