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Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead (R) approved new science education standards this week after a previous model floated more than two years ago was shot down because of its specific language about climate change.

Dozens of wildfires in the southeastern United States have covered the region in smoke, and the resulting poor air quality has caused public health concerns.

Michigan officials proposed today a requirement that all infants and toddlers be screened for lead.

U.S. EPA agreed yesterday to examine radioactive waste from a Missouri landfill that residents say is contaminating homes.

U.S. EPA proposed new restrictions yesterday on certain chemical solvents that the agency has linked to risks for pregnant women.

An environmental collaborative report out yesterday criticized U.S. EPA for inaction on phosphorus and nitrogen pollution that contributes to the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.

Volkswagen will cut up to 30,000 jobs over five years as it restructures its struggling passenger car brand.

A handful of workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state are withholding concerns about toxic vapors due to fear of retaliation from management, according to a new report from an agency watchdog.

The Husky Energy Inc. oil spill this summer in Saskatchewan was caused by shifting ground that collapsed a stretch of pipeline, officials said in a report to the Canadian government released yesterday.

State environmental regulators turned down a South Florida family's request to drill in Everglade marshes.

Tribal energy development has been hamstrung by complicated regulatory framework across federal agencies, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released yesterday.

President Obama launched a nationwide challenge today to expand solar power to low- and moderate-income communities, marking a commitment to renewable energy even in the last days of his presidency.

Failure to protect the world's peatlands could mean more carbon in the atmosphere and climate change spiraling out of control, environmentalists said yesterday during climate talks in Marrakech, Morocco.

West Virginia's environmental regulators are suing former top officials of Alpha Natural Resources Inc. for fraud.

The state of Michigan yesterday challenged a recent federal court order instructing state officials to deliver bottled water to residents of Flint who cannot access water distribution sites.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. will face sentencing in a deadly 2010 pipeline explosion after a federal judge yesterday denied the company's request to throw out a jury's criminal conviction.

U.S. EPA would make a final decision by next October on adding North Carolina to a regional ozone reduction program under the terms of a tentative lawsuit settlement.

California residents care for their coastline, according to a new poll.

About 200 federally protected adult steelhead apparently died from sustained injuries from a dam in Idaho, according to the Army Corps of Engineers.

The Forest Service today published a final update of environmental analysis that maintains the Obama administration's plan to reinstate a controversial exception for coal mining in part of a designated roadless area in Colorado.

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