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Wal-Mart Pays $81 Million Fine to EPA

Wal-Mart has agreed to pay $81.6 million for violating what the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) calls “environmental crimes,” concluding a decades-long investigation by the agency and the FBI. Wal-Mart settled with the EPA and the Justice Department in three...

New Energy Secretary Says Climate Change Not Debatable

Ernest Moniz, the nation’s new Energy Secretary, said climate change is “not debatable” in one of his first speeches on the job. “I’m not here to debate what’s not debatable,” Moniz said at the White House Leadership Summit on Women, Climate and Energy on...