"As Three Mile Island and a Michigan reactor aim to restart, critics question whether the cost of nuclear power makes sense."

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted preliminary approval for the use of a material that contains radioactive radium in a Florida road project that’s being described as a “pilot.”"

"Every year, navel orangeworms eat through roughly 2% of California’s almonds before they can make it to grocery store shelves. With climate change threatening to make the situation worse, researchers are hoping to sterilize millions of moths a day with radiation and drop them from airplanes."

"As Hurricane Milton pummeled Florida’s west coast with powerful winds and flooding rain, environmentalists worry it could scatter the polluted leftovers of the state’s phosphate fertilizer mining industry and other hazardous waste across the peninsula and into vulnerable waterways."

"The justices will consider whether a lower court improperly tossed approvals for a temporary storage facility in Texas."

"Miners aim to meet a growing demand for emissions-free energy, though a failure to clean up old sites haunts the industry."

"The U.S. on Monday said it closed a $1.52 billion loan to resurrect Holtec's Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan, and a senior Biden administration official said it could take two years to reopen the plant, which is longer than the company predicted."

"The owner of the shuttered Pennsylvania plant plans to bring it online by 2028, with the tech giant buying all the power it produces."