The EPA will act on plans to reduce air pollution in California and Colorado as part of an agreement with environmental groups filed in a California federal court.

Climate change is hitting home everywhere. Just in the last few weeks, extreme heat, floods, and fires have all come to look like part of the new abnormal, and few places are safe. New York is issuing air quality alerts because of wildfires some 3,000 miles west.

A federal pipeline regulatory agency has put the operators of the Dakota Access pipeline on notice of probable safety violations—including for not looking at spill risks—and a proposed fine of $93,200, according to a new notice filed in a Washington, D.C., court.

A New York man convicted of conspiring to dump contaminated waste in 2013 will pay a reduced penalty to resolve the federal government’s Superfund claims against him, according to the Northern District of New York.

Australia succeeded in efforts to prevent the Great Barrier Reef from being listed as endangered by a United Nations organization after a diplomacy blitz.

The Senate in April overwhelmingly passed legislation (S. 914) that would invest more than $35 billion over the next five years in drinking water and wastewater infrastructure. But senators, including Environment and Public Works Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.), yesterday said some funding discrepancies over water have cropped up in the bipartisan infrastructure negotiations.

Offshore wind farm developers are finding one more thing in common with the fossil fuel industry: community backlash on both sides of the Atlantic.

China needs to accelerate its build-out of energy sources such as nuclear and pumped-hydro to stave off worsening power crunches in its industrial centers, according to a government-backed think tank.

India’s biggest oil refiner says fossil fuels will continue to be key part of the nation’s energy mix as it embarks on a $13 billion expansion.

Angela Merkel’s slow-motion departure from the German political stage took an ironic turn in April as the chancellor tripped over a climate law she herself had drawn up.