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Yesterday Rhode Island U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse once again used his office to promote the agenda of party donors such...

A handful of scientists is using a super PAC to get their colleagues to align against Republican presidential nominee Donald...

Maryland unveiled what may be country's strictest regulations on hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," yet. In Maryland, State Department of the...

In an unprecedented development, the state of South Australia was cut-off from the national electricity network. Wednesday's event will trigger...

A liberal watchdog group erroneously claimed a cabal of Republican attorneys general held an undisclosed, secret meeting in Colorado with...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard oral arguments in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, the...

We are told the globe is rapidly and dangerously warming, and that this rapid and dangerous warming has been predominantly...

As attorneys defended the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan in a federal appeals court Tuesday, two senators from coal-dependent West...

Federal appeals court judges went after both the Obama administration and its opponents equally on Tuesday, in a whirlwind series...

President Barack Obama's anti-space exploration policies have created a vacuum that's being filled by China, bemoaned lawmakers on both sides...

Research published in the American Geophysical Union's journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles shows that recent rises in levels of methane in...

People must stop having so many children if they want to avert "catastrophic climate change," warns an American university ethicist....

"I believe climate change is real," Hillary Clinton asserted in her acceptance speech at this year's Democratic National Convention, while...

Academy Award winner Leonardo DiCaprio is scheduled to join President Barack Obama in a conversation about climate change at the...