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As utilities transition away from coal power, what, if anything, do they owe the places that were built around supplying that coal? A Montana lawmaker is among those trying to make that case.

International research labs are using seaweed to make biofuel, but little progress has been made in the U.S. Now scientists in California are developing a prototype to enable vast open-ocean farming.

Steve Inskeep talks to Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio about the administration forging a tentative pact with Mexico on NAFTA. The next step is to get Canada re-engaged in the talks.

The Mexican capital's incoming leader, Claudia Sheinbaum, is an environmental engineer who worked on a U.N. climate panel that shared a Nobel Prize with Al Gore. Can she stabilize the city?

The Trump administration is expected this week to unveil its executive order undoing President Obama's Clean Power Plan, which aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

The sunken Hero, an Antarctic research vessel from the 1960s, is leaking oil into Willapa Bay, where more than half of the state's oysters are grown. And no one knows how to remove it.

A UNESCO survey shows that schoolbooks often minimize, brush aside or misrepresent important issues, from gender equality to environmental protection.

Judge Neil Gorsuch has said deferring to agencies is an abdication of judicial responsibility. He is expected to be grilled on this at Monday's confirmation hearings.

Bilateral ties are at a low and while Washington and Beijing agreed on climate cooperation, details are unclear. Competition with China is key to the Biden administration's response to climate change.

The government once considered members of eco and animal rights groups top national security threats. But are they domestic terrorists? An upcoming court trial will debate who gets that label.