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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Miranda Kaiser, a fifth-generation Rockefeller and the president of the Rockefeller Family Fund, about her efforts to take down the fossil fuel industry.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Christie Todd Whitman, former EPA administrator, about the future of the agency under President Trump.

U.S. policymakers from both parties have proposed higher trade barriers, or even bans, to keep the vehicles out more permanently.

Massachusetts Senate leaders say they’re nearing a deal on the supplemental budget and preparing to take up the House-passed cannabis reform bill before their holiday break begins Wednesday.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, a member of the Democratic Party, about provisions in the debt ceiling bill approaching a Senate vote.

The Northwest has been suffering record-setting heat. A cold front is supposed to move in, but with it comes high winds and dry thunderstorms in forests that have been cooked tinder dry.

More than a quarter of Connecticut's plant and wildlife species need more conservation research due to declining populations, threats, cultural importance or lack of data.

Colorado and Utah are reporting their lowest snowpacks in recorded history. Skier visits at major resorts are way down. Without snow to refresh reservoirs, water managers are sounding alarms.

International shipping company CMA CGM has stepped up its support for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in more ways than one.

Drinking water around the District of Columbia hasn't been contaminated. But scientists say the environmental damage could be severe.