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Pieter Dorrestein is a professor at University of California, San Diego, who uses mass spectrometry technology to eavesdrop on the molecular conversations between microbes and the world, thereby mapping chemicals and their interactions.

U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy was given a public service award yesterday for her work in fighting climate change.

Top spokeswoman Aoife McCarthy is leaving the Department of Energy.

Native Americans living along the Columbia River face some of the greatest risks from the oil and coal trains that run along its banks, according to tribal leaders.

Oklahoma City police yesterday said they found no evidence that the death of energy mogul Aubrey McClendon was an attempted suicide, ruling it an accident instead.

The Edison Electric Institute is partnering with a startup incubator to speed up promising technologies in the power sector.

Reductions in urban water use have saved large amounts of energy and cut back on greenhouse gas emissions in California, according to a new study.

Georgia and Florida may try to end their water war over the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers this fall at the Supreme Court.

States challenging the Obama administration's contentious Clean Water Rule are asking a Southeastern federal appeals court to allow lower courts to hear complaints while another appellate court moves forward with a separate case.

Adidas and Parley for the Oceans will release a limited number of the first running shoe created from recycled plastic debris found in oceans.

The Skinny Dipper Hot Springs, located an hour north of Boise, Idaho, is slated to be closed by the Bureau of Land Management.

A cow moose was shot and killed in Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska, and park rangers are trying to figure out what happened.

A man who fell into a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park is presumed dead, park officials said last night.

A New Jersey man fell to his death Monday during a visit to Acadia National Park.

When Manson Brown began working at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last year, he was welcomed by a line of underrepresented employees at his office door.

California's ballot initiative system is increasingly being used to dodge state environmental laws and accelerate development projects.

West Virginia's fossil fuel industry risks businesses, jobs and "our way of life" if federal appeals court Judge Merrick Garland is confirmed to the Supreme Court, the head of the state's Oil and Natural Gas Association warned today.

California billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer today endorsed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, while praising Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for his focus on climate change policy during the primary battle.