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Horse owners are speaking out about proposed bullet train routes that would send 220 mph trains through towns built around equestrian activities.

More than 40 workers have complained about exposure to noxious gas from waste tanks at the now-closed Hanford nuclear weapons complex in Washington.

The U.S. EPA inspector general uncovered some accounting snafus when reviewing the agency's aid to American Samoa, the watchdog announced today.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board needs to work on procedures for publishing information on public meetings, documenting its budgeting process and reducing excess office space, according to a new audit.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz heads to Georgia this week to participate in a public meeting on the nation's electricity system in conjunction with multiple events highlighting energy technologies ranging from carbon capture to solar power.

The Interior Department has chosen its deputy solicitor to help smooth over the changeover between administrations.

In the coming months, the future of New York state's nuclear industry could be determined as the Public Service Commission looks over a number of clean-energy proposals pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's (D) administration.

Two days after a judge ordered Southern California Gas Go. to clean 2,500 homes affected by the company's Aliso Canyon gas leak, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health late last night ordered SoCalGas to stop the cleanings.

Scientists are calling into question the safety of nuclear pools across the country that hold spent reactor fuel.

The attorney general of the Virgin Islands told a Washington, D.C., court Friday that his office was revoking a subpoena it had issued to the Competitive Enterprise Institute regarding the right-leaning organization's climate change work.

Countries will face new obligations to stop suspicious fishing vessels before they reach port under a treaty taking effect next month.

Florida researchers found three Nile crocodiles living in the Everglades, and according to their DNA, they're likely related.

A former national park guide and dive master who came to the Galápagos Islands as an infant will take over the top job managing the environmentally sensitive area.

National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis heard both jeers and some support on a visit to Maine to meet with residents over a proposed new national park.

Federal workers were worried about the "crazies" traveling from around the country to Cliven Bundy's Nevada ranch in 2014, records show.

A federal judge Friday rejected an environmental group's bid to file arguments in the government's criminal case against Ammon Bundy and dozens of others charged in the 40-day occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

Billionaire Tom Steyer has put up $500,000 to help a California state senator win re-election against a challenger backed by an oil-funded political action committee.

A pair of Republican state attorneys general are calling on U.S. EPA to halt all work related to the Clean Power Plan while the rule remains frozen by the Supreme Court.

Official endorsements are slow to trickle in, but the coal industry has made it abundantly clear which presidential front-runner it prefers: Donald Trump.

New York's Democratic senators want federal energy regulators to halt construction of a hotly contested natural gas project slated to run through densely populated communities in their state, one including the Indian Point nuclear plant.

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