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In a victory for opponents of the drilling process known as hydrofracking, a New York State judge ruled on Tuesday that the upstate town of Dryden in Tompkins County can [...]

Eleven states sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday over its delays in tightening air quality standards involving soot. The Obama administration has faced intense opposition to the stricter regulations [...]

When Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo took office last year, his administration seemed to be in hurry-up mode as it decided whether to allow hydraulic fracturing, a controversial gas drilling process. [...]

Adjusting to shifts in the economy, states in the cap-and-trade system known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative have slashed the number of allowances that electric power companies can buy [...]

Every decade, the Census Bureau spends billions of dollars and deploys hundreds of thousands of workers to get an accurate portrait of the American population. Among the questions on the [...]

After taking over 20,000 public comments, more than on any issue they have ever faced, New York environmental officials are getting ready for the final phase of work on their [...]

THE only safe thing to say about the future is that, borrowing from Mort Sahl, it lies ahead. After that, we are all on our own. The year just past [...]

The biggest environmental decision for New York State in 2012 will be how to regulate drilling for natural gas on the Marcellus Shale, the rich gas field that stretches from [...]

HORSEHEADS, N.Y. -- At the Glamour and Glow boutique in the local mall here, crystal necklaces and fake fur vests have been hot-ticket items the last year. When the drilling [...]

In a decision affecting some of New York's most toxic sites, the Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that state environmental regulators could seek to require companies responsible for the pollution [...]

A federal agency announced Thursday that it had found no evidence that decades of live fire and bombing exercises by the Navy on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques had [...]

CALLICOON, N.Y. STROLLING by restaurants and antiques stores on a quiet Main Street the day after Thanksgiving, Mark Ruffalo waved hello to a girl in the back of a passing [...]

Major American environmental groups have dodged the subject of population control for decades, wary of getting caught up in the bruising politics of reproductive health. Yet, virtually alone, the Center [...]

A debate that pits energy needs against safety risks is playing out in the New York region as federal officials weigh approval of a natural gas pipeline that would terminate [...]

IT was warm and sunny on a recent Tuesday and the lunchtime crowd in Bryant Park was in full swarm. Hundreds of Midtown workers sat on the grass or at [...]

The Bloomberg administration is set to commit $2.4 billion in public and private investment to applying new environmental technology to an old problem: the flow of untreated sewage and storm [...]

DRYDEN, N.Y. -- Four years ago a man and a woman knocked on Katharine D. Dewart's door, offering easy money for the use of her land. Handing her a brochure [...]

More than 10,000 ground zero rescue and cleanup workers who settled lawsuits with New York City over damage to their health will share an extra $55 million in bonus payments [...]

Natural gas drilling using a controversial technique known as hydraulic fracturing could create up to 37,000 jobs and generate from $31 million to $185 million a year in added state [...]

Boats will be prohibited from dumping sewage in New York State waters in Long Island Sound under a ban announced on Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency. The new ban, [...]

New York State environmental officials commissioned a study of impacts of natural gas hydraulic fracturing from a consulting firm that counts oil and gas companies among its clients and that [...]

Sewage routinely contaminates the Hudson River, according to a report released on Tuesday after four years of water testing in which one-fifth of the water samples indicated that the river [...]

WASHINGTON -- Like manna from heaven, thousands of dollars in new revenue is raining on a group of congregations here from the unlikeliest of sources: the utility bill. The windfall [...]

The boat's captain was happy to clear up one misconception: Sewage does not necessarily stink. ''People think sewage is going to smell,'' the captain, John Lipscomb, said late Friday afternoon [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Rules proposed recently by New York State for regulating a controversial form of natural gas drilling are drawing expressions of guarded optimism from the natural gas industry but [...]

Lorraine Johnson says she remembers the garbage trucks that lined up near her housing project on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, to unload trash at a marine sanitation station [...]

Two-thirds of New York City's rooftops are suitable for solar panels and could jointly generate enough energy to meet half the city's demand for electricity at peak periods, according to [...]

Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday that he planned to scale back New Jersey's goals for renewable energy as he looked for an ''achievable'' approach to generating electricity in the state. [...]

A top New York State official filed a lawsuit against the federal government on Tuesday to force an assessment of the environmental risks posed by drilling for natural gas in [...]

Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday that New Jersey would become the first state to withdraw from a 10-state trading system, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, declaring it an ineffective way [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED ORADELL, N.J. -- Nancy and Eric Olsen could not pinpoint exactly when it happened or how. All they knew was one moment they had a pastoral view of [...]

Buildings in New York City will be required to phase out using the most-polluting grades of heating oil under a new regulation that is expected to improve air quality significantly [...]

In the weeks after the oil spill, Tuan Nguyen visited 15 towns around the Gulf Coast to seek out Vietnamese fishermen whose lack of English made their sudden loss of [...]

After embracing environmentally friendly construction, Martin Dunn, a developer of affordable housing in the city, made a frustrating discovery: the energy that he hoped to save with improved insulation and [...]

JERSEY CITY -- Some 25 years ago, Ellen Wright was driving home through her neighborhood of single-family wood-frame houses here when she noticed that the streets were slick with ''green [...]

As a new state law making electronics manufacturers responsible for offering free recycling programs takes effect, many residents of New York City are likely to continue relying on so-called collection [...]

Neighbors around the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn already know their waterway is a toxic soup of heavy metals, sewage and probable carcinogens. But some dream of treasures that might also [...]

New York City's 10-year plan to identify and replace school-building light fixtures that are leaking toxic chemicals should be handled in a speedier and more comprehensive fashion, the Environmental Protection [...]

The Bloomberg administration announced on Wednesday that the city would replace light fixtures containing the toxic chemicals known as PCBs in nearly 800 city school buildings over the next 10 [...]

Some neighbors call the 311 help line. Others say they now take a different route to walk their dogs. Parents complain of headaches. Children say they cannot sleep. A year [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED New York City's sewage presents a daunting and costly challenge: it creates foul odors and often contaminates waterways. But the city is now casting its sewage treatment plants [...]

As the father of an 8-year-old attending Public School 36 on Staten Island, Richard P. Ghiraldi was alarmed to learn that students were being exposed to a known carcinogen. Last [...]

A yearlong investigation of the Gowanus Canal in preparation for its cleanup under the federal Superfund program has confirmed the severe extent of its contamination and the threat it poses [...]

This holiday season, Mellissa Spitzer is doing what was once unthinkable for her: presenting used toys to her children, niece and young sister as gifts. ''I've talked to relatives and [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to begin inspecting school buildings in New York City next month for contamination with the toxic chemicals known as PCBs in response to a pilot [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency announced tighter requirements on Friday for the second phase of General Electric's cleanup of chemical pollution in the Hudson River, imposing a stringent limit for the [...]

Gov. David A. Paterson ordered state environmental officials on Monday to complete revisions to their proposed standards for a controversial type of natural-gas drilling by June and submit them to [...]

Gov. David A. Paterson is considering whether to sign legislation that would impose a temporary moratorium on the issuing of permits for a controversial type of natural gas exploration that [...]

In New York, government officials found $90 million to pay for schools by dipping into money generated by a multistate greenhouse gas initiative. In New Hampshire, the state took $3.1 [...]