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Oregon voters have blocked an attempt by Nestlé SA to build a water bottling plant in their town.

Niobium, a transition metal used to manufacture stronger, lighter steel, is on a rapid rise in commodity markets.

Peabody Energy Corp. has won final bankrupty-court approval for a $800 million financing package following lender concessions aimed at appeasing creditors.

CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Facing pushback over its development of genetically modified crops, Monsanto Co. aims to win over critics by educating people about the company's goal of helping produce more food while reducing fertilizer use, Chairman and CEO Hugh Grant said yesterday.

New federal buildings in areas bordering wildlands must be built to international wildfire safety codes under an executive order President Obama signed today.

State regulators fined Southern California Gas Co. $2.25 million for 45 safety violations found during inspections last year.

Florida Power & Light Co. will stop construction for four years on two of its proposed nuclear power plants at the troubled Turkey Point site.

The first offshore wind farm near Rhode Island will start operating this year, but developers say California's coast is the bigger prize.

A one-day federal trial yesterday at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles could set new standards for when school districts must take action against polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.

Yellowstone National Park rangers have filed federal charges against three men for stepping onto a hot spring.

A Canadian man who put a bison calf in his car at Yellowstone National Park later told rangers he knew he made a mistake.

Officials at Yellowstone National Park have been trying to control the spread of brucellosis in cattle by focusing on bison, the suspected carrier of the disease, but a new study published in the journal Nature Communications suggests that elk, not bison, may be the culprit.

As the new Pixar film "Finding Dory" gears up for a June release, marine biologists are worried that movie fans will seek to stock their aquariums with blue tangs like the title character.

Dozens more American Indian tribes stand to benefit from a federal initiative to return millions of acres of reservation land to tribal governments' authority, but funding may dry up before the project can be finished.

The Chesapeake Bay this week earned its highest environmental grade in more than two decades: a C.

Several prominent conservatives today criticized an attorney general coalition whose members have launched investigations into past climate change disclosures of fossil fuel companies and pledged support for climate regulations.

A packed Senate hearing room today served as an echo chamber for Democrats to amplify their case for giving Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland a confirmation hearing.

Michigan's two Democratic senators, anxious about the threat of another oil spill, are calling for more federal oversight of aging oil pipelines crossing the Great Lakes, the Straits of Mackinac and the Detroit River.