The Trump administration wants to open up nearly all of the country's oceans to oil drilling. So what will this mean for communities that depend on the coast for their livelihood? And what will it mean for our oceans? Will they become the site of the next great oil rush?
The gas industry spent $5.2 million last year in lobbying lawmakers. Environmental groups together spent about $300,000. What is their money buying them?
More than 60 percent of Alaska is owned by the federal government. So if any state is going to feel the impacts by environmental decisions made in DC, this is the one.
There have been lots of presidential orders and proclamations, and many proposals are in the works. But just how effective has Trump been in changing environmental policy during his first year in office?
The Interior Secretary was in Bethlehem Township, home to Black Dog Hollow, a 100-foot tall pile of coal waste left by a mine that closed 30 years ago.
The Trump Administration has proposed opening up the entire East Coast to offshore exploration. But fishermen, environmentalists, realtors, and business owners in New Jersey are voicing their unified opinion that it's not worth the risk.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University looked at emissions data and found that the U.S. can still meet-- or maybe even beat-- reduction targets without it.
There's a delicate calculation that goes into environmental regulations for air pollution -- the number of jobs in coal and other polluting industries we're willing to save versus the number of premature deaths as a result of pollution.
