Efforts to identify and attribute global emissions will get a boost from satellites to be launched by a consortium including Carbon Mapper, the State of California, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Planet Labs Inc.

The EPA “delayed informing” communities in Illinois about health risks associated with a carcinogenic chemical in 2018, which affected regional officials’ ability to address emissions, the agency’s internal watchdog said Thursday.

Three of the biggest power companies in the U.S. told Texas lawmakers that proposed new laws would load unfair costs onto wind and solar farms and chill investment in the state.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc. must face defamation and false light claims related to a blog post about a Maryland zoo’s alleged treatment of animals, a state appeals court ruled.

Canada’s conservatives will back a price on greenhouse gas emissions in the next election, a sharp turnaround from past policy on climate change.

The EPA reached an agreement in principle with states and public health groups to resolve a dispute over how it gathers information on imports of asbestos and products that contain it, the agency told a federal judge Thursday.

Electric vehicle users would pay a charging-station tax and an annual registration fee in Oklahoma under a bill state lawmakers approved Thursday and will send to Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt’s desk.

Transit is emerging as a key partisan split as lawmakers draft legislation to reauthorize surface transportation programs and respond to President Joe Biden’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure plan.

A handful of companies with petrochemical operations in a Louisiana estuary will pay the federal government $5.5 million to clean up pollutants, according to a proposed settlement in federal district court.

Environmental justice considerations will play a bigger part in EPA decisions on grants and loans, including those for city water infrastructure projects, Administrator Michael Regan said Thursday.