The Trump administration has issued an emergency order directing a coal-fired power plant in Michigan to remain open for operation through at least the end of summer. The J.H. Campbell Plant in West Olive was originally slated to shut down May 31 as part of a transition to cleaner energy. But the Department of Energy...

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said Thursday that climate and earth science at the agency will “move aside” as it refocuses solely on space exploration. “All the climate science and all of the other priorities that the last administration had at NASA we're going to move aside, and all of the science that we do...

A mammoth 90 percent of American Christian leaders — from Catholics to evangelicals — believe in the reality of human-induced climate change, a new study has found. However, these same leaders are typically silent in their beliefs and fail to share that understanding with their congregants, according to the study, recently published in the Proceedings of...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is halting at least some disaster-related travel at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as the Trump administration tussles with Democratic lawmakers over funding, according to an internal email reviewed by The Hill. “DHS has issued a stop-travel order for all DHS funded travel … for the duration of...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set up a portal allowing polluters to request exemptions to nine Clean Air Act rules. The Clean Air Act allows the president to exempt polluters from complying with regulations if he determines that the rules are based on technology that does not yet exist. The EPA posted online this...

Free-moving herds of migratory bison in Yellowstone National Park are stimulating the regrowth of flourishing grasslands and reshaping ecosystems, a new study has found. Contrary to conventional grazing wisdom, the findings suggest that encouraging large-scale migrations of these massive mammals could help enhance landscapes across North America, according to the research, published Thursday in Science. “With...

President Trump ordered a blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and exiting Venezuela on Tuesday, continuing his escalations against the Latin American country and its leader, Nicolás Maduro. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Maduro’s “illegitimate” regime is using oil to “finance themselves, Drug Terrorism, Human Trafficking, Murder, and Kidnapping,” designating the...

Nearly a month after a wastewater spill into the Potomac River began, recovery efforts are ongoing. The spillage, which resulted from a section of the Potomac Interceptor sewer line collapsing last month, resulted in an overflow of roughly 243 million gallons of wastewater as of Feb. 6, according to DC Water. Although public health officials...