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Liberal academics are calling on the next president to set a new tone in the highly charged debate over government regulation, while also urging a series of reforms to modernize public safeguards.

Kansas voters last night ended Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp's bid for a fourth term in office, rejecting the outspoken conservative and member of the House Freedom Caucus in favor of physician Roger Marshall for the GOP nod.

Debate surrounding legislation to address a long-neglected radioactive waste dump in the outskirts of St. Louis is playing a key role in Missouri's contentious Senate race.

The Fish and Wildlife Service today concluded that 3.7 million acres of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest still warrant Endangered Species Act protection because of the habitat they provide for an elusive seabird.

Mining has taken place along Emigrant Creek during the century and a half that Bryan and Sally Wells' family has lived in their pocket of southwestern Montana.

MENDOTA, Calif. — Westlands Water District, the largest agricultural water district in the country, has some of the most productive farmland in the world — but very little water. The influential district has inflamed critics, and a series of recent woes has brought it under increased scrutiny.

The economies of two small towns in Pennsylvania depend on money brought in from the Keystone Sanitary Landfill, but environmentalists are objecting.

A broken sewer line in Ellicott City, Md., has sent an estimated 5 million gallons of sewage per day pouring into the Patapsco River after floods ripped through the town and parts of Baltimore over the weekend.

The Navy currently stores 20 underground tanks filled with fuel above one of Hawaii's most important aquifers, and some residents and officials want this to change.

A new study says virtually no Amish children have asthma because of their daily exposure to farm animals.

With the recent discovery of mosquito-borne Zika cases in Miami, bug spray companies are benefiting from people's fear of the disease.

The head of the Flint, Mich., mayor's pipeline replacement program said he's "frustrated" by how long it's taken to gather information about the city's water systems in order to remove and replace old lead pipes.

A U.S. EPA blueprint for implementing ozone standards the agency adopted in October is now under review at the White House Office of Management and Budget, according to the online federal regulatory clearinghouse Reginfo.gov.

The South Florida Water Management District told top Army Corps of Engineers officials today that speeding up the timeline for a new reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee would likely hamper development on existing Everglades restoration projects.

Tesla Motors Inc. yesterday said it lost $293.2 million in the second quarter, slightly more than in the first quarter and greatly exceeding forecast losses.

A wildlife refuge in California may be the first of its kind to be fully powered by solar energy.

A federal judge ruled yesterday that the Maryland Transit Administration must recalculate ridership forecasts for its planned Purple Line, a light-rail system for the suburbs north of Washington, D.C.

Federal prosecutors in San Francisco are facing criticism after a surprising decision to drop their pursuit of a $562 million fine against one of the nation's largest utilities over a 2010 pipeline explosion.

Explorer and oceanographer Robert Ballard is leading a team of 31 scientists to explore the Pacific Ocean, including rare whale graveyards, and anyone can join the team in real time through a live-streaming video.

Hikers attempting Colorado's "fourteeners" — mountains with an elevation of 14,000 feet or more — pumped around $70.5 million into the state's economy last year, according to a report released July 29 by the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, a preservation group.

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