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Radiation from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown has been found on the West Coast of the United States for the first time.

A lawsuit aimed at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency alleging negligence in its pollution oversight has been dismissed.

Environmentalists blasted a Kentucky plan to reduce public and regulatory oversight of coal-ash disposal.

Black women could be disproportionately affected by toxic chemicals in cosmetic products, a report from the Environmental Working Group warned this week.

Electric vehicles could make up a third of the world's car sales by 2040, according to a study by the research firm IHS Markit.

The Department of Energy announced the creation of a new $140 million manufacturing institute today that is part of a larger multiagency network aiming to double U.S. energy productivity by 2030.

The National Weather Service is losing more employees than it can hire, leading to a "hiring deficit" that has left critical positions unfilled, according to an internal briefing.

President Obama has given a parting gift to federal employees — a higher-than-expected pay raise next year.

Winter weather is preventing cleanup of a "significant" pipeline rupture by a company with a long history of oil spills in North Dakota and Montana.

North Dakota oil producers saw the Dakota Access pipeline as a lifeline, a way to get out of their recent slump.

A small town in New York can thank oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. for its homegrown fossil fuel divestment movement.

Climate change is warming the Arctic to such an extent that trekking to the North Pole is now nearly impossible, reports explorer Eric Larsen in his new book, "On Thin Ice: An Epic Final Quest Into the Melting Arctic."

A federal judge has denied a Montana newspaper's request to publicize confidential negotiations regarding the nation's largest Superfund site.

The state of Minnesota sued Volkswagen AG yesterday, claiming the German carmaker violated state laws by selling diesel cars with systems designed to cheat U.S. emissions tests.

Washington state yesterday sued agrochemical giant Monsanto Co. for decades of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) pollution, becoming the first state in the country to do so.

U.S. EPA has agreed to prod 15 states and the District of Columbia to fully address requirements for meeting the 1997 and 2008 air quality ozone standards, under a tentative lawsuit settlement.

A federal judge set a Jan. 6 deadline today for the federal government and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to respond to the Dakota Access pipeline developer's latest legal attempt to gain approval for the controversial project.