Historically, trade agreements have focused on reducing barriers to trade—such as tariffs and quotas—while encouraging economic integration and growth. Environmental protection was often considered a ...

FILE - Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, appears before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill ...

Rivers have relatively less protection than do land or oceans and we lack effective mechanisms for measuring protection. A new study offers an improved mechanism for tracking progress.

Newtown's Nettleton Preserve is near a property under consideration for a large housing development. Credit: Davis Dunavin / WSHU News This is the third of a five-part series exploring issues ...

LONG ISLAND-- Leaders in Nassau and Suffolk counties say they're hopeful that former Congressman Lee Zeldin, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for head of the Environmental Protection Agency, will ...

For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at Today on the Hill. Congressional Democrats are calling for Environmental Protection Agency ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) indicated this week that it will steer its environmental enforcement officers away from energy companies. The EPA can pursue civil or criminal cases against ...

TALLAHASSEE — Describing the case as having "exceptional importance," the Florida Department of Environmental Protection this week argued a federal appeals court should overturn decisions that ...

Former leaders of the Environmental Protection Agency who served under both Republican and Democratic presidents spoke Friday against the Trump administration's announcement this week that it will ...

Diving in a kelp forest in Monterey Bay recently, I watched a tubby 200-pound harbor seal follow a fellow diver, nibbling on his flippers. The diver, a graduate student, was using sponges to collect ...