Coastal Restoration

Protesters in Texas, Maryland, Indiana, Nevada and Wisconsin lobby against coronavirus restrictions. Trump criticizes Democratic governors.

Both are existential challenges—and a president who belittles and neglects science has made them both tougher to address

The Trump administration has finished a new rule that rolls back environmental controls on many wetlands and intermittent streams, delivering a win to rural landowners.

The administration's attempts to remove environmental regulations have made very little headway—though that may soon change.

Trump's tweet about California fires shows he doesn't understand anything about the climate or water.

We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves. A tragedy in two acts.

We’ve collected the highlights from what turned out to be a daylong grilling over allegations of ethical infractions and lavish spending by the E.P.A. head.

While top-level science positions remain vacant, scientific advisory panels have been quietly diminished, disbanded or stacked with industry scientists.

Laguna Beach is trying to mask the masses, and this M.D. is championing the cause

Government exercises, including one last year, made clear that the U.S. was not ready for a pandemic like the coronavirus. But little was done.

A tech billionaire’s PowerPoint brought the Trillion Trees climate plan to the president, a textbook case of ad hoc policymaking in the Trump era.

Wilbur L. Ross Jr. made the threat after the agency’s Alabama office contradicted the president’s claim that Hurricane Dorian might hit the state.

A jury’s $289 million award to a former school groundskeeper who said Monsanto’s Roundup left him dying of cancer will bolster thousands of pending cases and open the door for countless people who blame their suffering on the weed killer, the man’s lawyers said.

Kelvin Droegemeier is vice president for research at the University of Oklahoma and a climate change scientist. His selection was widely welcomed.

A proposed policy would bar the E.P.A. from considering research that doesn't release its raw data for review, blocking some significant work.

The fierce debate over public land in the West is expected to further intensify with a Trump executive order reviewing national monuments created in last two decades.

Ray Hilborn has a reputation for challenging studies showing declines in fish populations. But Greenpeace says its public records request has revealed a failure to disclose industry funding on papers.