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A fisherman from southeast Alaska and a commercial fishing trade organization have taken legal action against the state over an administrative order they say has made major legal changes to the agency that regulates commercial fisheries.

Quaker Oats, a division of PepsiCo, is facing a class-action lawsuit over claims its oatmeal contains traces of glyphosate.

Health care workers are trying to figure out how to help the people of Flint, Mich., cope with what could be years of suffering following the lead-in-water crisis.

Recent floods across Texas have overwhelmed oils wells and hydraulic fracturing sites, causing crude oil and toxic chemicals to flush into the state's rivers.

As fresh water becomes scarcer, utilities are looking to reuse their wastewater but face significant hurdles, the Government Accountability Office has found.

A freight train operated by CSX Transportation derailed in Washington, D.C., yesterday morning, leaking hazardous chemicals in the area.

The chief of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's "hurricane hunter" program and an Energy Department leader who expanded efficiency programs are among the federal employees in the running for a prestigious service award.

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) and Sen. Richard Shelby (R) have joined others in urging the Tennessee Valley Authority to sell its unfinished Bellefonte nuclear plant in the state.

A Los Angeles power developer has announced plans to construct the country's largest rooftop solar project that would connect directly to the city's grid.

Robert Murray, the 76-year-old chairman of Murray Energy Corp., stands at the center of the economic, social and political debate around the future of coal.

Towering flames along a section of pipeline that connects shale gas plays in Pennsylvania to New York have upset energy markets and provided new lines of attack for hydraulic fracturing critics.

When raindrops hit soil, they help release glasslike organic particles into the air that could have implications for the climate, a research team led by two federal laboratories has found.

The air conditioning and heating industry is objecting to U.S. EPA speeding up by a year the deadline in the latest efforts to curtail hydrofluorocarbons that have a high global warming potential.

The Supreme Court is accepting fewer cases to review during its next term, and the ones taken so far seem less controversial than in the past.

A state judge refused to block a pending sale of five Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta islands to a Southern California water agency Friday.

The Supreme Court today refused to review an appeal in a case focused on which BP PLC shareholders can file class-action lawsuits related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Conservationist George Weymouth, a member of the du Pont family and longtime fox hunter and horse enthusiast, died at his home in Chadds Ford, Pa., on April 24.

The body of a missing 24-year-old Oregon man was found dead yesterday in Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve, where he died of a head injury after tumbling off a steep section of the trail.

Large-scale dredging in Miami's port to make way for the newest generation of freight vessels caused widespread damage to the area's already distressed coral reef, a report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows.

Coral reefs in the upper Florida Keys may have crossed a "tipping point," losing more limestone than they create each year due to ocean acidification, according to a new study.

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