Environmental Defense Fund

As the Obama administration launches a broad investigation of flame retardants used in furniture and other household goods, the nation's top environmental regulators are running into the limitations of a federal law that makes it practically impossible to...

Although recommendations of what we should and shouldn't eat bewilder us and make any cuisine feel like the weighing of lesser evils, it isn't exactly responsible to recommend the many ways to enjoy salmon "because it's plentiful and popular" [April 25,...

WASHINGTON -- A dozen states and cities and three major environmental groups have notified the Environmental Protection Agency that they plan to sue the regulator unless it issues final rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants. On...

Think you are being ripped off at the gas pump? One California lawmaker wants to give the public a place to contact with complaints of price manipulation or other shenanigans. Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) has proposed creation of an Office of Fuel...

WASHINGTON -- A coalition of energy companies, environmentalists and Pennsylvania-based philanthropies announced Wednesday the creation of a center that would provide more stringent standards for fracking and natural gas development in the Eastern...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The oil and gas industry is trying to ease environmental concerns by developing nontoxic fluids for the drilling process known as fracking, but it's not clear whether the new product will be widely embraced by drilling companies....

For a class of troublesome flame retardants, this appeared to be the end of an era. After years of study, scientists in the U.S. and Europe had reached an alarming conclusion: Flame retardants called polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, build up...

YADKINVILLE, N.C. - Google, of all companies, last year got into the business of hog poop. It joined a project started by Duke University, Duke Energy and a Yadkin County farmer to pull the potent greenhouse gas methane from swine waste and use it to...

It would be an insidious route to the end of the world, one that doesn't make quite the exciting movie plot as asteroids and super tornadoes but that could be far more of an effective apocalypse: Water overuse. There are nearly 7 billion people on the...

"I give the environmental community, including myself, a C for passing new laws and regulations, and an F in making them work." — Richard Klein, founder, Community & Environmental Defense Services More than 30 years ago Richard Klein, in a few...

The state of Alaska is asking a federal judge to block enforcement of rules intended to limit pollution from large ships.     The request for a preliminary injunction was filed Friday.     Alaska is suing the federal government over the new fuel...

It's hard work catching soft crabs, a fickle livelihood in an increasingly precarious part of the world. Starting before sunup, Smith Island waterman Mark Kitching spends hours repeatedly "scraping" the submerged grass beds that grow abundantly around...