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Just outside Yellowstone National Park, there are eight bears that have proven skills at breaking into cars, trash cans and chicken coops.

The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality says it will now use smaller sampling bottles for the lead testing program in Flint.

An Oregon glass company is back in business after state regulators inspected and approved its new emissions filter.

Besides killing millions of people worldwide each year, poor air quality exacts a huge economic toll, with developing countries hardest hit, the World Bank said in a report released yesterday.

A Canadian car company could be selling a three-wheeled electric vehicle later this year.

The Department of Energy plans to establish a joint energy research and development center with Israel in the upcoming fiscal year, a department official told a House hearing yesterday.

For the second time in as many months, the Fish and Wildlife Service's Northeast region is the subject of allegations that it allowed managers to retaliate against employees who raised concerns about their decisions.

Roughly 200 birds covered in oil have been seen in Louisiana's Barataria Bay after a pipeline leak Monday that spilled 5,300 gallons of crude oil, according to the Coast Guard.

The Obama administration announced yesterday it will pour $13 million into studying methane emissions from the natural gas supply chain and technology to reduce leaks.

The Department of Defense has been allowing private developers to build renewable energy projects on government land for little or no compensation, according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

A federal appeals court upheld a $200 million penalty against energy companies for their actions in California's energy crisis.

A Volkswagen engineer today pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges for his role in designing software aimed at cheating U.S. air pollution tests.

In a symbolic gesture, the San Diego Zoo yesterday burned products containing rhinoceros horn worth an estimated $1 million in the black market.

A new study says a certain species of earthworm is too good at one of its jobs.

The giraffe, long believed to be one species, is actually four, according to new research.

Sea-level rise poses a potential threat to a power plant proposed for an area near Santa Barbara, California Coastal Commission staff said in a report the agency will consider today.

Former Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.) is lobbying for oil and gas giant ConocoPhillips.

Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.) invoked the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in an attack yesterday against California Attorney General Kamala Harris, her opponent in the race for the state's open Senate seat.

The League of Conservation Voters Victory Fund announced today it will team up with United Steelworkers Works to create a super political action committee aimed at influencing the outcome of competitive Senate races this fall.

U.S. EPA is facing new pressure to complete a delayed environmental review of the federal renewable fuel standard.

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