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Residents of Flint, Mich., are facing an outbreak of shigellosis, a gastrointestinal illness that is easily transmitted by people who don't wash their hands.

Millions of schoolchildren may still be exposed to highly toxic polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), despite a decadeslong ban on the chemicals, according to reports released today by the Environmental Working Group and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.).

The director of the film "Deepwater Horizon," which aims to show the final hours leading up to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, claims that oil giant BP PLC attempted to sabotage the filming process.

The Department of the Interior's internal watchdog is raising the alarm over the department's use of charge cards.

Want to charge your iPhone or iPad with solar-powered clothing? Scientists in China now say it's a viable idea.

Scientists are trying to figure out whether Cornish cod swimming north due to climate change will be able to understand the accents of their Scouse brethren.

Invasive insects could be causing over $77 billion in damage every year, according to a study out yesterday.

The White House has announced a series of new actions aimed at reducing carbon emissions and building climate resilience in homes and buildings.

The Paris climate agreement spells bad news for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, World Resources Institute experts said today.

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge standoff leader Ammon Bundy yesterday took the witness stand and emotionally expressed how "useless" it seems to fight the federal authorities who put him and his brothers in jail on charges related to the armed takeover in January.

A Georgia court nullified a proposed Clean Water Act permit last week for a massive pulp mill over pollution in the Altamaha River.

A pair of conservation groups yesterday sued the Obama administration in an effort to protect the endangered ocelot from being inadvertently killed by the Agriculture Department's Wildlife Services bureau.

A second industry group is challenging U.S. EPA's recently adopted changes to its "regional consistency" regulations.

In northern Montana, the Bureau of Land Management is experimenting with removing crested wheatgrass and restoring native species in the hopes of improving habitat for greater sage grouse.

An aerial survey over the Pacific Ocean revealed that a dense patch of floating garbage between Hawaii and California is much worse than previously thought.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials announced this week a plan to allow people to visit Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, which surrounds the long-maligned former Rocky Flats nuclear warhead factory.

A top Wyoming Highway Patrol leader did not violate any rules when he took a photo near a bison at Yellowstone National Park, according to park officials.

When President Theodore Roosevelt named the country's first national monument over 100 years ago, no punctuation was used. Devil's Tower became Devils Tower.

The Fish and Wildlife Service today said it will add a freshwater mussel to the threatened species list, proposed protections for salamander and snake species found in the Southeast, and rejected calls to list nearly a dozen other species.

Bob Barbee, who was superintendent of Yellowstone National Park during the 1988 wildfires, died Sunday at 80 years old.

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