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Over 200 earthquakes shuddered last week beneath California's Salton Sea, prompting concern among scientists that a big earthquake may occur on the San Andreas Fault.

The Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed adding to the threatened species list two tiny insect species that are at risk from climate change.

U.S. EPA will explore options for further cutting nitrogen oxides releases from heavy-duty trucks, acting air chief Janet McCabe reaffirmed last week in a letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer of California and almost 30 other congressional Democrats.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and lawmakers from both chambers are backing legislation to fix what they say is a tax code error that threatens future carbon capture and sequestration.

How Florida tackles pollution in the Everglades could depend on who ends up winning the state's Senate seat: Sen. Marco Rubio (R) or Democratic challenger Rep. Patrick Murphy.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump took aim at the Sierra Club's endorsement of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton yesterday, seizing on the group's new $5 million campaign to halt natural gas power plants and pipelines to slam the former secretary of State as an opponent of the coal industry.

Crunched for time but flush with federal cash, Rick Bennett stepped in after Superstorm Sandy battered the East Coast in 2012 to lead the Interior Department team charged with helping the region recover and rebuild to withstand future storms.

Utah and other states don't have strong legal arguments for gaining control of millions of acres of federal lands within their boundaries, according to an extensive analysis by a group of Western attorneys general that critics say should end any further debate on the issue.

The Supreme Court today declined to take up a case involving a dispute between landowners and a local government over pollution control regulations in Washington.

Wisconsin is grappling with widespread water quality and water scarcity issues, some of which have turned into hot-button political issues that could factor into voters' decisions as they head to the polls in November. In the first story in a series, this swing state is highlighted as one of many battlegrounds that could tip the presidential race or control of the Senate.

Haiti, which today is being hit by 145 mph winds and 3 feet of rain from Hurricane Matthew, sees natural disasters frequently.

City officials in Seattle have sued a group of homeowners for illegally felling 1.5 acres of trees on a protected city greenbelt.

A global marine regulatory body will decide later this month whether to severely restrict sulfur emissions in a move that could cut ocean pollution but double fuel costs for the shipping industry.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles is taking aim at electric automaker Tesla Motors Inc., proposing new regulations to ban terms like "autopilot."

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission agreed last week not to cite uranium giant Cameco Corp. for violations after one of its employees falsified a health survey.

FBI agents said this week that a man caught on camera wandering around the Houston offices of a major energy company was not an employee but a criminal who stole corporate secrets.

Arch Coal Inc., the nation's second largest coal company, plans to emerge from federal bankruptcy reorganization tomorrow, less than 10 months after filing for Chapter 11 protections.

U.S. EPA proposed changes to its renewable fuel standard yesterday in an effort to boost the biofuel market.

The fate of a nuclear fuels facility in South Carolina hangs in the balance today after Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended a program aimed at curbing the production of nuclear bombs.

The first planned U.S. carbon capture project on a large coal-fired power plant is being delayed again due to tests and component fixes that "required more time than initially expected."

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