Environment

California offshore oil firms rack up nearly 400 violations

April 11, 2018 By Associated Press

Critics have long said state regulators were too cozy with oil interests and had gone easy on enforcement.

Oil keeps flowing as Corps misses deadline for DAPL environmental study

April 4, 2018 By Albert Bender

Foot-dragging Judge Boasberg lets the oil keep flowing through DAPL, even as the Army Corps of Engineers fails to submit an ordered environmental assessment.

This week in history: Saugus Iron Works, 50 years a National Historic Site

April 3, 2018 By Special to People’s World

On April 5, 1968, the Saugus Iron Works was added to the National Park Service system and renamed the Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site.

How one coal baron set the Trump administration’s energy agenda

February 5, 2018 By Basav Sen

In a political system awash with money, it's Big Coal vs. democracy.

Six environment stories to watch in 2018

January 18, 2018 By UN Environment

The United Nations Environment Programme announces the big environmental stories for 2018.