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Washington's attorney general yesterday asked a federal judge to take immediate steps to protect workers at Hanford Nuclear Reservation from chemical exposure.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (D) does not plan to comply with a congressional subpoena challenging her Exxon Mobil Corp. investigation.

The Supreme Court of California yesterday ruled that state officials can conduct environmental and geological tests on private land without invoking eminent domain, providing a step forward for the state's plans to build two tunnels underneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

A jury found an Indiana man guilty of securities fraud and other crimes connected to a massive biodiesel fraud scheme.

Sixteen states and the District of Columbia have failed to turn in full cleanup plans for meeting the 2008 ozone ambient air quality standards, environmentalists allege in a lawsuit filed yesterday that seeks to prod U.S. EPA to act.

A stolen boat that crashed in the Gulf of Mexico last weekend belongs to Walter Palmer, the Minnesota dentist who gained international notoriety last summer after killing Cecil the lion at an African national park.

Scientists are pointing the finger at corn as a reason for this week's humidity that is suffocating large parts of the United States.

Oyster Pond, a serene waterway just off the Atlantic Ocean on Martha's Vineyard, is home to a long-running legal dispute among wealthy families fighting for control of nearly 2 miles of remote beach.

Dan and Farris Wilks, energy billionaire brothers, have settled with the federal government after an investigation found their ranch's fence illegally encroached on public land.

Creeks are barely running. Waterfalls are only drips. Crops are withering.

Coal powered the economies of western Colorado's Delta and Montrose counties for generations, but they've withered in the face of a national gas boom, regulatory pressure and flagging global demand for coal.

A proposal to create the world's largest marine monument puts an unfair "conservation burden" on Hawaii and other Pacific islands, according to a federal fishery management council.

Donald Trump will continue to fight the development of a wind farm off the coast of his golf course in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, calling the project "public vandalism."

Flint, Mich., Mayor Karen Weaver will speak at the Democratic National Convention next week, her office announced yesterday.

Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke announced today that he will seek the seat of retiring Louisiana Sen. David Vitter (R).

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is scaling back his annual clean energy conference in Las Vegas this year, an aide confirmed today.

Environmentalists are glad Congress is looking into diversity at the National Park Service, but they want lawmakers to go bigger.

The Republican National Convention drew fresh attention to the infamous Keystone XL pipeline.

FirstEnergy Corp. announced plans today to sell or shutter several coal-fired generating units in Ohio as the Republican National Convention ended in Cleveland. The GOP made reviving coal's fortunes a key part of its platform.

CLEVELAND -- One down, one to go.

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