The Washington Post's David Farenthold reports on dramatic confrontations between environmentalists and mountaintop miners in Appalachia West Virginia: Environmentalists are unhappy because they fear federal officials are losing their nerve to take on the powerful coal industry. The coal industry is unhappy because it thinks the administration is on the ...

The Wall Street Journal's Stephen Power and Ian Talley report on state government concerns about the Environmental Protection Agency's plan to cap greenhouse gas emissions that curb global warming. Power and Talley doesn't make this distinction but there seem two different  kinds of complaints from states. States like California ...

It might kill you if you don't.  One of the nation's oldest publications, Harper's has seen its share of wars and corporate misdeeds come and go, and it's still on the lookout.  Here David Gargill relates why ...

President Obama vowed early in his presidency that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act would do double duty by creating or maintaining jobs and by helping solve problems in the environment, education, and basic infrastructure. As NPR's Greg Allen reports, $3 million in stimulus funds are heading for ...

The stars might be aligning for a real national effort to limit how America heats up the globe, to our own and others' detriment. President Obama spoke today at the UN about a more energetic U.S. approach, the EPA has a new carbon tracking system, the Congress ...

It may be that Florida is shrinking (the state is experiencing out-migration for the first time in decades) but it's likely to come back. And like California and other large states, Florida has the opportunity to be a leader and trendsetter in many areas of government. Given ...

Cornelia Dean of the New York Times examines worrying news from NOAA about the danger that nitrous oxide poses to the ozone layer.

Keith Bradsher of the New York Times went to Shenzhen, China (pop. 14 million) to see what happens to that city's trash.  China has now overtaken the U.S., Bradsher reports, as "the world's largest producer of household garbage."  This prize may still be shared with the rest of the world, ...

Kate Long of the West Virginia Gazette is keeping an eye on what the Mountain State -- one of the nation's less prosperous in terms of GDP and household income -- stands to gain from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.  It looks like about $1.8 billion, and ...

A Supreme Court ruling yesterday could severely complicate what regulations the Environmental Protection Agency can issue. Adam Liptak of the New York Times reports that the court ruled that EPA should use economic cost-benefit analysis when regulating coal-fired power plants under ...