Environment

A tourist who was allegedly caught on camera throwing a rock at a beloved monk seal named Lani in Hawaii was arrested on Wednesday. 

Special agents with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration arrested a man in Washington state this week on federal charges for throwing a coconut-sized rock at an endangered monk seal’s head in Hawaii last week.

Interior Secretary and Chairman of the National Energy Dominance Council Doug Burgum said Monday that American natural gas could move through Europe’s vertical corridor to help allies reduce their dependence on Russian energy and change the geopolitics of the region.

India is planning to reduce the size of the “exclusion zones” around nuclear reactors to make more land available for expanding the facilities, reports revealed on Monday.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum argued while speaking at a Breitbart News policy event that the vast majority of the legal hoops the American energy industry has to jump through are setting the U.S. back, while China skips over bureaucracy in the race for AI dominance.

Breitbart News’s “Harnessing American Power” event with Interior Secretary and National Energy Dominance Council Chairman Doug Burgum featured a wide-ranging policy discussion on the Trump administration’s energy agenda, including how royalties from production on federal lands help support conservation, wildlife, and national parks.

President Donald Trump’s energy strategy is a crucial diplomatic tool used with both friends and foes, Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) explained during an event with Breitbart News on Monday.

A roving gang of more than 400 peacocks have sparked a civil war among residents in a small Italian village. “They don’t let us sleep because of the screams!” one local exclaimed of the tropical birds, calling on the municipality to step in.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) shot back at California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) for making a misleading claim about his state’s renewable energy usage while calling the agency’s secretary an “oil shill.”

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin revealed how federal dollars spent on “environmental justice” often simply perpetuate a wasteful yet lucrative cycle of environmental activism.

12 months on from the historic power cut, no politician or businessmen has taken responsibility, never mind resigned, over the blackout.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) erupted in hostility toward Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin on Monday over climate change.

Former Vice President Al Gore is still making climate doom predictions, 20 years after his warnings from An Inconvenient Truth proved false — this time invoking the science fiction film The Day After Tomorrow for a rapt Hollywood audience.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio used Earth Day to mobilize his social media following, encouraging direct outreach to lawmakers ahead of a House vote tied to proposed changes to longstanding environmental protections.

A federal judge halted Trump administration policies affecting wind and solar development, ruling they are likely unlawful and created project delays.

Twenty-three state Republican attorneys general sent a letter to Fitch, S&P, and Moody’s for downgrading fossil fuel companies over what they believe are flawed environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics.

A state panel refused a permit for a Fourth of July fireworks show that has long delighted Long Beach and raised money for charity but will allow SeaWorld 40 nights of fireworks.

Senate Republicans on Monday introduced legislation that would bar Democrat states from punishing American energy producers via “climate lawfare,” contending that the Democrat laws amount to nothing more than a “climate shakedown.”

Green Party voters and the highly educated are those most likely to say they feel intolerant of other people’s opinions, research in Germany shows.

In the face of economically crippling anti-fuel tax demonstrations across Ireland, the neo-liberal government in Dublin announced a last-minute emergency support package on Sunday evening in an apparent bid to pay off key sectors of the protest movement.

The media is having a meltdown over the U.S. Forest Service being “executed” by the Trump administration — ignoring the fact that it is just being consolidated and moved from Washington, D.C. to out west, where there are more forests.

When not burning tons of carbon jetting the 5,000 miles between his mansion in Los Angeles and his luxury estate in Ireland, Hollywood’s Adam McKay gets off spreading fear porn about the imminent death of the world’s food supply.

Fire crews battled a blaze at Hollywood’s legendary “Magic Castle” landmark — one of the oldest establishments in Los Angeles.

In a post-Biden era, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has worked hard to build back the trust between the country’s unsung heroes — farmers and ranchers — and Washington, D.C., emerging as a strong advocate for rural America and its key industries while collaborating with fellow cabinet members.

Democrat states are increasingly adopting legislation that would allow insurers to sue oil and natural gas companies for disaster-related losses; critics argue these law would penalize energy producers at a time where lower energy costs are needed more than ever.

EPA chief Lee Zeldin and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday announced action to ensure that America’s drinking water is safe from microplastics, pharmaceuticals, forever chemicals, and other contaminants that may harm Americans.

The recent massive U.S. strike near Iran’s central city of Isfahan likely sought to render Tehran’s remaining highly enriched uranium stockpile inaccessible by burying it deep underground — a strategy that would negate the need for a prolonged and risky U.S. ground operation to extract the material, according to an Israeli military analyst writing Tuesday.

President Donald Trump announced that his administration was looking into how insurance companies handled claims related to the 2025 Los Angeles-area wildfires.

President Donald Trump announced that he, and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, are cleaning up Washington, D.C.’s “absolutely filthy Reflecting Pool.”

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) called for EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to leave office, marking the latest move by Democrats to try to remove a Trump cabinet official.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued ground stops for flights at several airports in the Washington, DC, and Maryland area, due to an “environmental issue” at a government facility, according to multiple reports.

Step aside, cocaine bears, and make way for the cocaine sharks — creatures emerging in the Bahamas due to partygoers discarding drugs, including painkillers and caffeine, into the ocean.

Former EPA staffers, now at environmental groups, have moved to kill the repeal what is considered to be the “holy grail of the climate change religion.”

A survey found that 87 percent of battleground voters remain highly concerned about the prospect of America having to import agricultural inputs from China. The 2026 Farm Bill aims to address this major concern.