Environment

The Air Pollutant Index in Serian surged to 521 on Friday, exceeding the emergency threshold.

The EPA seeks public comments as it tries to redefine the scope of the nation’s bedrock clean water law to limit the wetlands it covers.

The Trump administration has stalled a study that would help identify industries dumping harmful PFAS chemicals in wastewater, two former officials say.

A federal judge has struck down New York’s attempt to make fossil fuel-producing industries pay into a $75 billion fund to repair damage wrought by climate change.

Before and after satellite images show that the river is now much wider, and brown and black, because of the debris.

The first large site for testing wave energy technologies in the continental U.S. is open, after securing a key green-energy approval from the Trump administration.

The European climate service Copernicus says the world’s oceans have reached their hottest temperature on record. This increase is driven by a strong El Nino and human-caused climate change.

Last winter saw the worst snowpack on record for the Colorado River Basin.

The project through the national park in southern Texas has faced fierce bipartisan opposition by critics who say it is marring a pristine environmental area and that the region’s rugged and remote terrain already serves as a deterrent to migrants and smugglers.

“Our mission is to create a new kind of farmer,” Farmer Chippy said.