The Trump administration has finalized its plans to roll back decades worth of rules and regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act, in the latest effort to accelerate federal ...

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum to speed up the permitting process for energy and infrastructure projects by bolstering the technology used in issuing environmental reviews. It was the ...

On April 26th, 2025, an 82-year-old oil well, designated as Well #59, blew out near Garden Island Bay in Plaquemines Parish, resulting in over 9,400 gallons of oil spilling into the Mississippi River ...

When we talk about disasters, we often default to the language of nature. We describe storms as "unprecedented," floods as ...

Too often, projects related to the 2021 federal infrastructure rebuilding effort were slow to move forward, weighed down by permitting processes, rising labor costs and other obstacles, a Washington, ...

In this series, NPR takes readers behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Neela Banerjee is NPR's chief climate editor. The Environmental Protection Agency just announced plans to ...

Megan Jenkins is director of strategic research at Pacific Legal Foundation, where Paige Gilliard is an attorney in the environment and natural resources practice group. Enacted in 1969 — before the ...

The state’s recent order to demolish the beleaguered 115-year-old LaPrele dam has drawn renewed attention to Wyoming’s aging water infrastructure. A legislative panel will discuss funding for ...