environment

The Washington Department of Ecology issued a $444,000 fine Thursday to Total Reclaim, the state’s largest electronic waste recycler. That follows an…

It's called "net metering." That's when homeowners who put solar panels on their rooftops can sell extra energy they don't use back to utilities.It’s…

High schoolers in Hoosick Falls say they are tired of the slow response by the adults in the community and government to a toxic substance that has…

YAKIMA, Wash. -- At homes and day care centers throughout central Washington, children play in yards contaminated with lead and arsenic.The state’s…

ALBANY — State officials are declaring a site in a Rensselaer County village a state Superfund site to address water contamination from a chemical used in…

It’s something most of us take for granted. You turn on the tap, fill a glass of water and have a nice refreshing drink.But what if that water has been…

The Homer City Generating Station rises like a cathedral out of a valley in Indiana County, just east of Pittsburgh. You can see its smokestacks and…

When she was growing up, Julie Bundy’s parents forbade her from playing on the "slate dumps." That was their shorthand for the hundred-foot-tall pile of…

Ahead of the upcoming Paris Climate Change Conference, Hudson Valley Environmentalists invited the public to join them in a public stance against climate…

They're beautiful on the surface, but, our rivers are on drugs.The scientists at the Cary Institute of Ecological Studies say their findings show human…