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The automotive industry is asking U.S. EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for more time to review a 1,000-plus-page technical assessment of corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards.

Most communities in California were on target for saving water in June, even as the drought-stricken state turned water conservation back over to local leaders for the first time after dropping a state-mandated approach, officials said.

A group of commercial fishermen scored a potentially significant victory in court last week in an ongoing series of legal battles over water supplies from California's Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

An anti-regulatory advocacy group has dropped its lawsuit seeking to dissolve a U.S. EPA advisory panel -- but attorneys for the organization describe the retreat as temporary.

Flora and fauna found solely on the isolated Caribbean island of Redonda -- part of Antigua and Barbuda -- are being wiped out by invasive black rats and goats, according to environmentalists, and the government is planning to remove the nonnative species.

Japan and South Korea have moved to block certain U.S. wheat imports after the seeds of unapproved genetically modified plants from Monsanto Co. were discovered growing in Washington state.

Farmers across the American South are seeing disfigured soybean plants with leaves contorted into cuplike shapes, but it's not pests or disease causing the problem.

Wildfires are rampaging across seven Western states, destroying homes and forcing evacuations.

New York Republican Rep. Richard Hanna, one of a handful of party moderates who supports action against global warming, today became the first GOP lawmaker to announce he would vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton in November's presidential election.

The conservative-aligned ClearPath Action Fund yesterday endorsed North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr and vowed to spend at least $400,000 on digital media promoting the Republican's re-election bid.

House Republicans are renewing their demands for a federal investigation into the Clinton Foundation and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over connections to Russian uranium interests.

With the selection of both Democratic and Republican presidential nominees last month it might seem as if general election season is already here, but the congressional primary season is far from over.

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The Obama administration's most recent effort to reboot the nation's stalled nuclear waste policies has turned up concerns about "parking lot dumps," games of "radioactive Russian roulette" and "floating Fukushimas."

A once-healthy reef in the Gulf of Mexico is in the middle of a mysterious die-off, with half the coral already dead in some areas.

CHICAGO -- U.S. EPA union boss John O'Grady works out of a windowless fourth-floor office in a downtown high-rise.

Although most people associate national parks with preserving natural wonders, roughly two-thirds protect historical or cultural resources. Similar parks continue to be created, stretching the National Park Service's budget and employees thin. The agency faces mounting criticism that the resources under its care are deteriorating from age, wear and tear, and, in some cases, outright neglect.

Tropical Storm Earl, which is expected to grow into a hurricane sometime tomorrow, could graze Mexico's Bay of Campeche, where state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, has several offshore oil rigs.

Honeywell International Inc. yesterday released its plan to clean up the Quanta Resources Superfund site in Edgewater, N.J.

Wealthy nations produce the most electrical and electronic waste, but poor countries deal with the brunt of the cleanup, according to a researcher and his colleagues.

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