Environment

"The tragic irony of the Obama years so far is that he inherited a country that was entering a crisis that the meritocracy produced, one that's bigger than the …

In today's Election Countdown 2012 news: Two UN human rights envoys called on US officials to explain the use of excessive force on Occupy protesters, the National Research Council …

Walker will get to stay in office for the rest of his term, but he didn't win the election u2014 money did.

The UN puts Canada on the human rights watch list; Ohio wants to open up the state's forests and parks to fracking; Philadelphia's Green Party takes a firm stand …

The protesters marched through downtown Columbus and temporarily occupied the front hall of the Ohio Statehouse.

The book effectively tells a story of greed and corruption in one small town that actually had also swept like a hurricane through hundreds of other communities in the …

Republicans in the House of Representatives quietly passed 13 provisions last week that would choke off Energy Department financing for existing clean energy and efficiency programs. The House adopted …

Plant's problems mobilize local anti-nuclear activists, residents and officials for the first time since the early '80s.

The proposal to decriminalize the public possession of small amounts of marijuana risks ending a number of objections to the NYPD's stop-and-frisk practices, without properly addressing the racist skew …