In its American Electric Power Co. Inc. v. Connecticut decision issued June 20, the U.S. Supreme Court kept six states from suing power plants for their greenhouse gas emissions and said among other things, that the Environmental Protection Agency, not federal judges, should regulate greenhouse gases.

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked a federal lawsuit by states and conservation groups trying to force cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The court said Thursday that the authority to seek reductions in emissions ...

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Rochester will receive $600,000 from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to identify and remove petroleum and other hazardous substances from city properties. “This money will go a long way toward helping us attract new investment ...

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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Prodded by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, Pennsylvania said it is expanding the scope of water tests to screen for radioactive pollutants and other contaminants from the state's booming natural gas drilling industry.

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ALBANY — New York’s new environmental chief says the state needs to proceed cautiously with high-volume hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in deep shale formations, but not wait for the Environmental Protection Agency to complete a review of the practice that could take two years.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Environmental Protection Agency subpoenaed energy giant Halliburton on Tuesday, seeking a description of the chemical components used in a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing.

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BINGHAMTON — Rep. Maurice Hinchey told a federal hearing Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate hydraulic fracturing, the natural gas extraction process that he said has contaminated water near drilling sites around the country.

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BINGHAMTON — A pair of public hearings on a federal government study of a controversial drilling technique are set for upstate New York. The Environmental Protection Agency is holding four-hour hearings at The Forum in Binghamton ...

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WASHINGTON — The oil and natural gas industry is willing to cooperate with a federal study of natural gas drilling, but opposes regulation of a practice known as hydraulic fracturing.

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Prolonged heat waves in North America and Northern Europe, sparking massive fires in Russia, occurring simultaneously with unprecedented flooding in Asia and parts of interior Europe, have been cited by many as examples of the prophecy of global warming becoming ...

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ALBANY — In anticipation of as many as 8,000 people at a public hearing on natural gas drilling, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it was moving it from Binghamton University to a Syracuse convention center 65 miles north.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer on Tuesday asked the Environmental Protection Agency why it did not include Bisphenol-A, the controversial plastic-hardener, on a list of chemicals ...

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