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The Bush administration plans to uphold regulations issued in the last weeks of Bill Clinton's presidency requiring thousands of more businesses to report their releases of toxic lead into the environment. NPR's John Nielsen reports on the details of the announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency's administrator, Christie Whitman.

Rick Scott, Florida's GOP governor, has come under criticism for his record on the environment. Now, he's rolling out his own proposals for safeguarding the state's water and wildlife preserves.

Crews are expected to being working Saturday to repair a leak in a pipeline that released some raw sewage into the southern part of Onondaga Lake last…

Syracuse Common Councilors jumped aboard a larger national movement that would levy a carbon fee on fossil fuels and return that money to households. The…

SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry biology students are researching this year’s most compelling breakthroughs in evolutionary research, such as:…

Governor Cuomo unveiled a number of environmental priorities this week in his state of the state address, including one that’s been a bit more…

Members of various Syracuse-area environmental groups gathered today to create a list of questions and issues they’d like to see addressed by the 24th…

First it was plastic bags, then plastic straws. Now environmental groups are urging a ban on balloons. The anti-balloon campaign is happening at Clemson University football games, and in a small Rhode Island community.

Syracuse Common Councilors lent their voice Tuesday to a proposal to make a renewable energy technology more affordable. WAER's Chris Bolt reports…

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with host Jacki Lyden about Vice President Al Gore's recent visit to Silent Spring author Rachel Carson's estate. Gore, a long-time crusader for a clean environment, spent time at the author's estate, and said her book helped to get him interested in environmentalism.