Part of yesterday's budget deal included a rough agreement to spend $650 million on environment- and energy-related programs, $500 million of which will come from new borrowing over two years. ... (07/01/2008)

Every morning Tom McCormack strides into a swarm of bees, armed with little more than a can of smoke. Mr. McCormack, 62, of Aliquippa, has been a beekeeper since 1977. ... (06/30/2008)

Honeybees don't keep datebooks, and they don't just show up at the apple orchard, on schedule, to pollinate your trees. ... (06/30/2008)

Pumped by consumer shock at gasoline prices topping $4 a gallon and flowing hard toward $5, political pressure is mounting to end the 1981 moratorium on offshore drilling, which was adopted to protect the environmental and tourism value of the nation's beaches. (06/29/2008)

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court today agreed to step into an environmental dispute over a gold mining operation near Juneau, Alaska. ... (06/27/2008)