A Year Spent Wrestling With Paperwork, Not Nets
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
Alton Verdin is not interested in lawsuits; he just wants to get back to fishing.
The payment to five states and the federal government will count toward the company’s final liability.
There is a huge dead zone off the mouth of the Mississippi, and coastal wetlands have been vanishing rapidly.
Alton Verdin is not interested in lawsuits; he just wants to get back to fishing.
It took a call from President Obama to convince Michael R. Bromwich to lead the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement.
Tuan Nguyen has helped Vietnamese fishermen in Louisiana get emergency money, mental health counseling and new jobs.
With just hours to retrieve belongings before a government deadline, neighbors of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant flocked back home.
Midland and other Permian Basin cities are facing serious water problems as their above-ground reservoirs dry up.
The Fish and Wildlife Service is struggling with an avalanche of petitions and lawsuits over the endangered species list.
The spill occurred at a well in northern Pennsylvania that was being opened in a process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
The potential of floating solar farms is enticing for some farmers, municipalities and companies that see their ponds and reservoirs doing double duty.
Six states and New York City turn to the courts for help in forcing power companies to reduce emissions.
Pennsylvania regulators want the natural gas industry to stop sending waste from hydrofracking to plants not equipped to remove some contaminants.
Veterans of the Three Mile Island cleanup said that a much larger task faced the Japanese engineers who are trying contain and secure the damaged Fukushima Daiichi reactors.
A civil lawsuit questions whether state officials have the authority to stop a reactor that has a federal approval to operate 20 more years.
A small cadre of meteorologists was busy figuring out just how many tornadoes touched down on Saturday in North Carolina and how powerful they were.
Tens of thousands of Gulf Coast residents, frustrated by the process of submitting claims to BP after the 2010 oil spill, have actively sought legal help to cover loss of income or property damage.
Despite death and devastation in a corner of North Carolina, a sense of marvel that a mile-wide tornado didn’t do worse.
A San Francisco-based “vegetarian lifestyle” magazine and Web site acknowledged that it regularly used images of meat and dairy-filled foods to accompany vegan-themed articles and recipes.
The revamped Bureau of Ocean Energy Management concedes that it will take time, money and more skilled employees to properly police the oil and gas industry.
The Amazon’s pink dolphins are protected by law, but fishermen kill them to use as bait.
The climb out from this recession, if Wyoming is any measure, could be as politically turbulent as the descent.
Legislatures and governors are moving aggressively against conservation measures and regulations they see as too burdensome to business interests.
A legal settlement, announced by the E.P.A., could account for a loss of as much as a third of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s coal-burning capacity.
The Tennessee Valley Authority is the first American reactor operator to announce safety changes that it is weighing since the nuclear crisis at a Japanese plant last month.
As a nuclear disaster unfolds in distant Japan, a growing number of Indian scientists, academics and others have expressed concern about plans for a coastal nuclear plant.
Regulators say they are overwhelmed by lawsuits to save flora and fauna endangered by global warming. What's the answer?
The moss has been busy this year, and so has a gardening hot line, which fields inquiries as to how to get rid of the abundant plant.
A photographer has created 25 true-scale pictures, including two full portraits — each composed from dozens of photographs of different sections of the whale’s body.
Oil and gas companies put toxic chemicals into wells in a drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, according to a Congressional study.
In Colombia, coffee yields have plummeted as a result of rising temperatures and more intense and unpredictable rains.
An expedition to the mountains of the Solomon Islands sought to understand how new species evolve.
Elisabeth Rosenthal reports form rural Kenya, where cheap Chinese solar panels are providing decentralized small-scale electricity to towns that have little chance of being connected to the grid.
Steve Ryan is one of the scientists at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii who measures carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere.
Vance Vredenburg hopes to protect frogs in the Sierra Nevada mountains from a fungal disease that is wiping out amphibian populations.
Environmental milestones over 13 presidential administrations.