Expansions at five petrochemical plants in Texas and Louisiana could add the equivalent of more than 1 million cars’ worth of ...

Leaving the tight-knit community his family had called home for five generations along the Louisiana coast was one of the hardest things Chris Brunet has had to do. But three years ago, he felt he had ...

Retired Marine Corps gunnery sergeant Vida Rivera knows heat can be as dangerous as any enemy. Early in her military career, she collapsed from heat exhaustion while carrying a 65-pound pack on a ...

This country’s heaviest polluters also rely on a workforce that disproportionately fails to fill good-paying jobs with people of color who are more likely to be affected by their emissions, according ...

It was 2:30 in the morning on Nov. 6, 2014, when flames engulfed the New Orleans home of political consultant Mario Zervigon. Someone had lit his cars on fire, and the flames spread to his house.

On a quiet street near the marsh in Charleston, South Carolina’s Rosemont neighborhood, Luvenia Brown watches the weather reports more than she used to. She’s lost lawn mowers, bikes and outdoor ...

Concrete built much of the modern world. It paves highways, shelters millions and forms the foundations of countless buildings. But cement, the crucial powder that serves as the binder in concrete, ...

Laura Beth Resnick, photographed here collecting flowers at her Maryland farm, spent $36,000 to have solar panels installed at the farm, expecting to get the same amount in grant money from the U.S.

A truck prepares to haul coal at the North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Wyoming, the largest coal mine in the world. Due to cost and environmental concerns, use of coal to generate U.S. electricity has ...

Renewable energy in the United States has surged to unprecedented levels, with the combined power generated by solar, wind and geothermal more than tripling over the past decade, according to a new ...

In south-central Wisconsin, near record warmth in January and two record-breaking summer heat waves have cross-country skiers nervous they won’t be getting much snow this winter — again. And it’s not ...