Shell WindEnergy is scouting rural Albany County for places to develop commercial wind farms.

The public will get its first look at how Pennsylvania plans to proceed with a review of the environmental impact of natural gas drilling with the release of an outline scheduled for today.

Pro-environment and pro-industry groups are organizing their own educational forums on natural gas development, promising very different takes on its impacts.

Pro-environment and pro-industry groups are organizing their own educational forums on natural gas development, promising very different takes on its impacts.

The price of energy - from soaring electric bills to pain at the gas pump - remains a central issue in the presidential election, but the candidates' ability to address it at a time of economic free fall remains a source of considerable debate.

After months of negotiations and missed deadlines, the Great Neck Water Pollution Control District has submitted plans to the state for a $68-million sewage treatment plant.

The public will get its first look at how the state plans to proceed with a review of the environmental impact of natural gas drilling with the release of an outline scheduled today.

Workers have drilled and blasted two enormous tunnels under the Hudson River in a project that is unique in the field of environmental cleanup work.

Residents, concerned about radiation being emitted from mounted structures, file complaints.

Strategic thinking and bold action are largely absent under Mayor Byron W. Brown, according to leaders in the Buffalo green community.

For Viki Ingersoll, as energy prices rise, the numbers on her electric meter sometimes run backwards.

The Nassau pistol and rifle range isn't far from the Island Trees School District - which has been unable to stop lead contamination from an indoor rifle range it shuttered in 1999.

State cars that run on ethanol-based E85 gasoline are a more common sight these days. So are vehicles that run on natural gas or electricity, but to a lesser extent.

Lead lingered in a kitchen duct and a basement storage room at Island Trees High School after a cleaning earlier this week to address contamination from the school's former rifle range.

The state Attorney General’s Office is suing the federal Environmental Protection Association over what is says is a loophole in the Clean Water Act.

A Spring Valley High School gymnasium floor replacement project slated to end today did not release any asbestos into the air and posed no risk to students, East Ramapo Schools Superintendent Ira Oustatcher said yesterday.

Some toddlers and preschoolers were evacuated from a private Paterson daycare center to another location Friday after elevated levels of a toxic chemical were found inside the school.

In the center of Michelle Mastin's house in Victor, two points grab a visitor's attention — the expansive view of Cobblestone Creek golf course outside and the expanse of shiny, black granite countertops inside.

The D.E.C. is worried that workers repairing the East River bulkhead are allowing the shoreline to erode into the water.

New York state will create public education campaigns on the proper disposal of unwanted consumer medicine under legislation signed into law last week by Gov. David Paterson.