Northeast States Sue EPA over Water Use Rules for Power Plants

Six Northeast states sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, claiming its rules on power plants' water use will cause fish kills and other environmental harm. >> Read the Full Article

Newmont Executive Denies Polluting Indonesian Waters on First Day of Trial

An American executive of Newmont Mining, the world's largest gold miner, told a court Friday that his company did not pollute a bay on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island, where it's accused of sickening villagers and causing fish stocks to plummet. >> Read the Full Article

Listening System May Help Save Whales

Small survey planes, daylight and luck have long been the best tools for scientists hoping to spot the rare North Atlantic right whale. The results aren't too impressive. An estimated one in four whales are spotted by aerial surveys, leaving the rest vulnerable to ship strikes or fishing gear entanglements. >> Read the Full Article

Chemist Tries to Solve World's Energy Woes

A U.S. chemist is trying to determine how the world will produce enough energy to supply 9 billion people by mid-century -- and whether that can be done without pumping off-the-charts amounts of carbon dioxide into the air. >> Read the Full Article

U.S. Court Rejects Effort to Block Rules on Mercury Pollution

An effort by environmental groups to block the President George W. Bush's administration from implementing its new regulations on mercury pollution power plants was rejected by a federal appeals court. >> Read the Full Article

Green Sea Turtle Makes Rare Va. Delivery

A green sea turtle dug out a nest in the sands of this resort beach and left 124 eggs -- the first documented case of the protected turtle laying its eggs in Virginia. >> Read the Full Article

Canada, U.S. Agree Ways to Drain North Dakota Lake

Canada and the United States announced a deal on Saturday that could end years of bickering over plans to drain a North Dakota lake into rivers that end up in Canada, and said there would be safeguards to prevent pollution and minimize risk from "nuisance species" of fish. >> Read the Full Article

Scientists Study Arctic Climate Changes

A team of researchers will spend the next several weeks studying the icy Arctic Ocean to document historic climate changes. The expedition is using new technology to see whether variations in the Arctic's climate are within normal range of those that took place in Earth's recent past during the Holocene era, some 10,000 years since the last ice age. >> Read the Full Article

Bird-Filled Emirates Wetlands Diminishing

The Khor al-Beidah lagoon is a pristine tidal flat teeming with wildlife, including endangered birds, sea turtles and manatee-like dugong that swim among its tangles of mangroves. But a bevy of dredges and construction gangs are about to begin transforming a 1,500-acre parcel into a $3.3 billion luxury conglomeration of homes, shops, marinas and beach resorts aimed at foreign buyers and tourists. >> Read the Full Article

Environmentalists See Hope in Exxon CEO Change

Environmental groups expressed guarded optimism Thursday that the management succession at Exxon Mobil Corp. may lead the oil company to taking a proactive role in protecting the planet. >> Read the Full Article