The benefits of environmental protection, measured in terms of advancing public health and the economy, outweigh the costs ...

Banner for the CT Environmental Rights Amendment on the steps of the Old State House Credit: Jan Ellen Sipegel / CT Mirror The Supreme Court has been undermining environmental regulations at the ...

TALLAHASSEE — Describing the case as having "exceptional importance," the Florida Department of Environmental Protection this week argued a federal appeals court should overturn decisions that ...

The Trump administration proposed earlier this month a reform of the implementing regulations of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a law enacted 50 years ago. The implementing regulations ...

At the conclusion of the recitation of the Angelus yesterday at Castelgandolfo, Pope Benedict XVI called on the international community to greater cooperation in promoting “the common good, the ...

Climate change and environmental crises such as deforestation are critical problems in refugee situations. UNHCR estimates that 20-25 million trees are cut down in and around refugee settlements each ...

Astrid Puentes’s journey from Bogotá to the UN is shaped by a deep awareness of how environmental harm often mirrors social injustice. Early in her legal career, she confronted cases where pollution ...

There is a common concern across most of the surveyed publics around environmental protection. A median of seven-in-ten report that climate change is having at least some effect in the area where they ...

It took two months, but Evanston's Environment Board finally got a chance to weigh in on the city's proposed Lakefront ...

Environment Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan has called for the legal protection of environmental human rights defenders, stressing the urgent need to incorporate their safety into Bangladesh’s legislative ...