An expanding petrochemical industry, thanks to fracked shale gas, could have big consequences for a warming planet.

Candidates promising action on climate change and public lands won many victories, but several important ballot initiatives were defeated.

Experts fear oil and gas development could permanently damage millions of acres of ecologically and culturally important public lands.

A bid to remove the bird from the Endangered Species Act has emerged once again — long after the disappearance of the organization that proposed its removal.

It turns out that many people who care about the environment never vote. One organization is working to change that.

A former EPA engineer calls it “the most spectacular regulatory flip-flop in history.” Other experts say the resulting emissions increase would bode ill for the planet.

A handful of statewide ballot initiatives will test whether states can effectively counter environmental rollbacks coming from the federal government.

For 50 years the Land and Water Conservation Fund has helped support thousands of projects across the country, but its funding may be gone by the end of the month.

A change in the way the Supreme Court thinks about the role of the EPA and other agencies could dramatically weaken environmental protections.

We have five questions for Shelley Silbert, executive director of the advocacy group Great Old Broads for Wilderness.