Hector Duarte Jr. - AHN Staff Reporter Montevideo, Uruguay (AHN) – The World Bank will withhold $400 million for the construction of two controversial Uruguayan paper mills. It says it will do so to allow further investigation into the potential environmental impact the facilities will...

Reuters - Engineering and construction company Shaw Group Inc. on Monday said its profit for the fiscal second quarter nearly tripled on strength across sectors, particularly environmental and infrastructure.

Reuters - U.S. environmental regulators are conducting a criminal investigation into BP Plc's management of pipelines in Alaska's North Slope, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday.

AP - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is throwing its weight behind organic products, a move that experts say could have the same lasting effect on environmental practices that Wal-Mart has had on prices by forcing suppliers and competitors to keep up.

AP - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is throwing its weight behind organic products, a move that experts say could have the same lasting effect on environmental practices that Wal-Mart has had on prices by forcing suppliers and competitors to keep up.

Reuters - An Indonesian government study has found environmental problems at Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.'s giant mine in Papua, which the company said on Thursday it was trying to fix.

Ayinde O. Chase - AHN Staff Writer Wilmington, Delaware (AHN) – According to a first-of-its-kind report issued by Ceres, a national coalition of investors and environmental groups, DuPont is the best company in the U.S. to meet the business challenges associated with climate change. The...

Reuters - The average price U.S. drivers paid for gasoline soared 13.8 cents, the third biggest weekly increase on record, to hit $2.50 a gallon for the first time since last October, the government said on Monday.

Denise Royal - AHN Staff Writer Nashville, TN (AHN) - Obesity costs U.S. employers millions of dollars each year in higher employee health costs. A study published in the March Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine finds obesity is responsible for just over 2 percent of all...