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Federal money to fight the Zika virus is almost gone, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director said yesterday.

The federal Chemical Safety Board has deployed investigators to the site of a Florida chemical plant explosion that killed one worker and shook area homes over the weekend.

U.S. EPA has proposed a $23 million cleanup plan for the Eighteen Mile Creek Superfund site in Lockport, N.Y.

The Coca-Cola Co. this week said it had reached one of its major environmental goals well ahead of schedule.

Oil and gas production may be concentrated in a relatively small number of states, but its ozone-related health effects spread far and wide, according to a new analysis by two environmental groups.

The Agriculture Department today is reopening some of the offices it closed yesterday after unspecified email threats.

In a first step toward building a new bridge across the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland is beginning a National Environmental Policy Act study of the possible options.

The Green Climate Fund's recently departed executive director says the fund, which tries to help poorer nations combat global warming by spending billions of dollars, is not investing in the right kind of projects.

The United States' crude oil production is no longer falling, according to a new report.

American colleges and universities are using 64 percent less coal than they did less than a decade ago, burning 700,000 short tons last year, down from 2 million tons in 2008, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said in a report released yesterday.

Greater incentives are needed for technologies that capture, store and utilize carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, according to the National Coal Council.

A Texas oilman who federal regulators say scammed $4 million from investors set up a new company in an employee's name a day after federal authorities told him to stay out of the securities business, authorities say.

A U.S. district judge plans to give Oregon standoff defendant Ryan Bundy "the benefit of the doubt" and allow him to represent himself in court, despite his repeated "contempt for the court process."

Trucking groups sued U.S. EPA yesterday for approving California air regulations for forklifts and other off-road equipment, calling the rules "job-killing."

A free-market think tank filed a lawsuit today against New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) for denying its freedom of information requests for records related to his investigation into Exxon Mobil Corp.'s record on climate change.

The Fish and Wildlife Service will consider whether to federally protect the alligator snapping turtle, the Northern Rockies fisher and seven other species under a new settlement with the Center for Biological Diversity.

Due to slow birth rates, rare elephant populations in African forests will need close to a century to recover from ivory poaching, according to a new study.

Scientists last month launched a three-year intensive scientific study of Yellowstone Lake's more than 250 hot water vents.

A controversial proposal to build hundreds of homes on the last large, undeveloped coastal lot in Southern California is hitting a new roadblock: the need to protect an owl.

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) called on federal agencies to collaborate with property owners on conservation objectives at a field hearing yesterday.

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