A contentious proposal to amend California’s Constitution to enshrine environmental rights for all citizens has been delayed for at least another year after it failed to gain traction ahead of a ...

On July 28, member states of the U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to adopt a historic resolution that recognizes that a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right. While the ...

Listening to some politicos on the campaign trail, it's easy to assume that most Americans are against protecting the environment and that government should simply let the market regulate itself. For ...

New Mexico's budget relies heavily on oil and gas revenue, but the state also bears the scars of generations of mining and drilling. So when Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, a former law professor and ...

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This story was published in partnership with New York Focus, a non-profit news publication investigating how power works in New York state. Sign up for their newsletter here. In November 2021, New ...

Life, liberty — and a clean environment? A national coalition of environmental activists is trying to amend state constitutions to establish a guaranteed right to a safe climate or a clean environment ...

Less than a week after an abnormally intense wildfire killed 115 people and scorched the historic Hawaiian city of Lahaina while smoke from other fires still blanketed much of Canada, a judge in ...

From the time you get up in the morning until you go to bed at night, and even while you are asleep, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency affects your life. The air you breathe, the water you ...