EUGENE, Ore. — The state is considering three more areas on the Oregon coast to be designated as marine reserves.

BANDON, Ore. — Thick mud swirling around his hip waders, U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologist Bill Bridgeland marched toward the banks of the Coquille River, net in one hand, the other hand outstretched, palm up, skimming the surface. Bridgeland’s prey: r…

Most of the state is under a flash flood watch this morning that has been issued by the National Weather Service.

CELINA, Ohio — State officials should know by late October whether two test projects aimed at tamping down a cyanobacteria outbreak at Grand Lake St. Marys are doing the trick and can be applied on a larger scale.

The Toledo area fared well in the first round of competitive grant money the federal government released Tuesday under President Obama’s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, with ties to nearly half of the $2 million share Ohio has been awarded so far.

A few days ago, District Judge Christina Snyder issued her 57-page ruling in American Trucking Ass’n v. City of Los Angeles, the trade association’s challenge to the city’s clean ports program.  The ruling gave the city a crucial victory, and it has more than local significance: if its reasoning is accepted, it could lead to [...]

Meteorologists haven’t started using the word drought, but they say conditions, particularly in Rensselaer County, southern Vermont and the northern Berkshires, have been extremely dry.

A group tied to conservative Oklahoma oil billionaires who are behind a campaign to deny man-made climate change is taking aim at New York’s participation in a program to cut greenhouse gases.

The state is extending a ban on the movement of ash trees and products in a bid to contain a spreading infestation of an invasive beetle that ravages the trees.

A new state law being hailed as a major boost to the local economy may or may not be all that it’s cranked up to be. In all likelihood, its impact will be far less that what politicians have contended since Gov. David A. Paterson last week signed a law…

With clean-energy legislation trapped in a political deadlock, renewable-energy advocates called big business the new leader in the nation’s green revolution during a national summit meeting Tuesday.

A New Mexico Environment Department official has been named to a federal advisory committee on implementing an environmental cooperation pact to the North American Free Trade Agreement.

In a brutal growing season that went from soaker to scorcher in just three months, six southern New Jersey counties now are designated agricultural disaster areas because winds, frost, freezes and even hail wrecked blueberries and other crops in May.