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Tennessee is poised to let gas and oil companies build new infrastructure without local interference. It comes after activists helped stop a pipeline through Black neighborhoods in Memphis.

Chile has voted a resounding NO to a proposed constitution that would have put a focus on social issues and gender parity, enshrine rights for the indigenous population, and address climate change.

Davis was a public intellectual best known for his book City of Quartz and other searing critiques of capitalism, corruption and environmental degradation.

Residents of some suburbs complain their lives are being ruined by the giant garbage dumps that ring the city. With no recycling in the capital, all trash goes into the expanding landfills.

Phil Pister, a biologist who singlehandedly saved a rare fish from extinction by walking through the desert at night with two buckets in his hands, has died at 94.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Hallman on Thursday found that the U.S. Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Forest Management Act and the Endangered Species Act.

Advocates for a measure to reduce plastic packaging by 50% in New York over the next decade say they are encouraged by a joint legislative hearing held on the bill this week.

Advocates and lawmakers continue to urge New York Governor Kathy Hochul to include lead pipe funding and legislation in her next budget.

António Costa asserted his innocence but said he must resign amid an investigation implicating members of his government.

Lawmakers and advocates gathered at the New York state Capitol Tuesday to renew calls for legislation to control harmful PFAS chemicals.