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The New Mexico Environment Department secretary, who has been involved in fights with U.S. EPA over waterways tainted by a mine spill, will step down next month, Gov. Susana Martinez (R) announced Friday.

Bayer AG will halt future U.S. sales of flubendiamide, a pesticide marketed as Belt, after losing a fight with U.S. EPA.

After previously keeping federal scientists at arm's length, Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) today asked a government emergency response team for help as the state's number of Zika cases increased to 14.

An Idaho environmental group has retracted claims that Novolex, a plastic bag manufacturer, was violating reporting requirements to U.S. EPA's Toxics Release Inventory.

U.S. EPA's inspector general said Friday the Gold King mine investigation remains ongoing, declining to answer congressional lawmakers' questions nearly a year after the disastrous spill.

Tesla Motors Inc. told Senate investigators that a car's automatic brakes -- not its Autopilot technology -- were to blame for a fatal accident in July.

A California regulator is working with Volkswagen AG to test software and hardware that could potentially repair diesel emissions problems, allowing the company to avoid buying back as many as 475,000 diesel cars.

Tesla Motors Inc. has reached a deal to buy SolarCity Corp., the electric car company announced today. The agreement, which values SolarCity at $2.6 billion, must get shareholder approval.

At the last minute, the British government Friday postponed a $24 billion nuclear power project, reportedly over security concerns about China's significant investment. The United Kingdom's new prime minister, Theresa May, personally decided to rethink the Hinkley Point project, after her predecessor had championed the project and China's cooperation.

A new study suggests that storing carbon underground after its capture could be much safer than previous experiments predicted.

A pest control company has tentatively offered to pay $87 million to a Delaware family sickened by a substance in a U.S. Virgin Islands vacation condominium.

Private landowners in Louisiana want a federal court to reconsider a case challenging the Fish and Wildlife Service's designation of critical habitat for an endangered frog.

Rational and well within the bounds of what's required by the latest scientific evidence.

Texas last week became the second state to launch a court challenge against the Obama administration's methane regulations for the oil and gas industry.

New England lobster fishermen might soon face new regulations aimed at dealing with unprecedented population declines.

A variety of genetically modified wheat not approved for sale in the United States has been found growing in a field in Washington state, possibly risking trade with countries worried about genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.

Two wildfires in California are continuing to wreak havoc on the Golden State.

Energy Fuel Resources Inc. is seeking to expand its uranium mining operations at a Utah mine near the heart of the proposed Bears Ears National Monument, even as uranium prices have hit a lull in recent years.

The white-barked paper birch tree, which American Indians turned into canoes and Robert Frost weaved into poetry, is slowly disappearing from some northern woods -- and humans' success in protecting the forest may be partly to blame.

Leaders of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Friday ratcheted up their investigation of sexual harassment in the National Park Service and called for new approaches to dealing with the problem.

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