Al Armendariz, the top Environmental Protection Agency official in the oil-rich Southwest region, resigned from his post, effective Monday. It’s the latest twist in the never-ending and increasingly ugly fracking fracas. A two-year old video had surfaced last week (and since pulled) featuring Armendariz comparing his “philosophy of enforcement” to...

Let’s play "Jeopardy." Round One: Science Literacy. Category: Evolution. For $500: Which is the largest demographic group to reject Darwin’s theory of evolution?”

According to Chris Mooney’s best selling new book, The Republican Brain, a follow up to his 2007 polemic The Republican War on Science, the answer is easy:...

Howarth doesn’t have to convince anyone he’s right to devastate New York’s budding shale industry and put tens of thousands of jobs into question. He wins if he muddies the waters enough to give cautious Albany bureaucrats reason to stall.

Advocacy journalists sitr up unwarranted hysteria over a weed-killer made to save farmers over $2 billion.

If we don't rely on science to guide us, we might make the day for Whole Foods Market devotees, but it would have a devastating effect on the nutritionally poor and the world food supply.

The greens have been so friendly with Democrats and so relentlessly hostile to all Republicans--even ones with conventionally pro-environment records--that Republicans have little reason to accommodate their views.

President Obama and his team came into office insisting that they were on top of things and above mere ideological considerations. They were wrong.

Do not fear overhyped, scary environmentalist reports. Air quality is improving.