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A recent report focusing on the latest generation of game consoles suggests these high-powered machines offer impressive standby modes, but can gobble up energy depending on how you're using them. The Natural Resources Defense Council says while Microsoft's new Xbox lineup and Sony's PlayStation 5 consoles make it easy to stream from services like Netflix …

A new push for stricter rules in flood zones could force Biden's team to choose: Increase construction costs, or leave people exposed to climate change.

The environmental measures attached to the Covid-19 relief bill mark the first significant climate change legislation to pass in the U.S. in about a decade.

The bill calls for phasing down emissions of hydrofluorocarbons, a potent greenhouse gas

Under President Donald Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency became an oxymoron, run by people who'd spent their careers suing or lobbying the EPA on behalf of oil and coal companies. Trump pulled out of the Paris Accords and rolled back more than 100 protections for land, air, water, wildlife and human health.

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President-elect Joe Biden will name Gina McCarthy as his White House climate czar, a source familiar with the decision tells CNN, making the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency his top domestic climate coordinator.

Amazon has launched many sustainability efforts but it's still not easy to recycle its packaging.

Ms. McCarthy will serve as a senior adviser to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., coordinating climate change policy throughout the government.

Biden is under pressure from all sides to pick the right EPA chief. Who will it be?

Speaking at an online summit on the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate agreement, Xi Jinping said that China would reduce its carbon intensity by over 65 percent by 2030.

The Trump administration is finalizing a rule Wednesday making it harder to enact public health protections, by changing the way the Environmental Protection Agency calculates the costs and benefits of new limits on air pollution.

Governments around the world are gearing up to see how vulnerable financial systems are to climate shocks

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the tufted puffin does not warrant Endangered Species Act protections

Praised by Republicans and Democrats, Mary Nichols is a contender for head of the EPA in a Biden administration.

The Trump administration torpedoed the Pebble Mine, which critics said would have destroyed the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery.

The controversial copper and gold mine was opposed by several leading Republicans, including Donald Trump Jr.

Jeff Bezos on Monday announced the 16 environmental organizations that will receive $791 million as the first round of grantees for his $10 billion Bezos Earth…

The federal government has still not set limits for PFAS compounds, and some allege that could be because it is a polluter of them itself

President-elect Joe Biden has committed more explicitly than any nominee before him to dramatic steps against the climate crisis, but he faces the same geographic puzzle that has precluded congressional action on the challenge for years.