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U.S. EPA said Friday it will pay $4.5 million to state, local and tribal governments in relation to the 2015 Gold King mine disaster, but rejected $20.4 million in other requests related to the spill.

U.S. EPA finalized a long-awaited rule for its Superfund program last week, adding a category to its Hazard Ranking System (HRS) for the first time in 26 years.

The city of Paris has developed creative ways to heat two neighborhood swimming pools without breaking the bank on energy bills.

Analysts are divided over whether the family of electronic devices known as the "Internet of Things" will be a boon or bust for energy efficiency and other environmental concerns.

Santa may need more reindeer to pull his sleigh these days; lack of food from warming temperatures has diminished the animals' size.

Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and 19 other business leaders are launching a fund today that will invest at least $1 billion in new energy technologies that aim to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to "near zero."

Ryan and Ammon Bundy declined to enter a federal courtroom Friday.

The Supreme Court today declined to take up a long-running dispute over the Navy's planned redevelopment of a San Diego waterfront property.

Trees in the northern Everglades are being held in a chokehold by the Old World climbing fern, and a new debate between the South Florida Water Management District and the Fish and Wildlife Service over the fern is emerging.

Record crowds in Yellowstone National Park are placing pressure on infrastructure and the park's limited staff, officials said.

Hydraulic fracturing across Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia is putting bat populations at increased risk, with several species already endangered due to the deadly white-nose syndrome.

Environmental advocates are opposing federal plans to lease four northwestern New Mexico land parcels for oil and gas drilling, arguing that the area is too close to the Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

The Bureau of Land Management has withdrawn two parcels of land in Nine Mile Canyon from an oil and gas lease auction set to take place tomorrow.

The return of the 8,500-year-old Ancient One, also known as Kennewick Man, to Columbia River Basin tribes now awaits only President Obama's signature.

Paramount Pictures will premiere a sequel to Al Gore's 2006 climate change documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," next month at the Sundance Film Festival.

Public and private institutions around the globe that have vowed to divest from fossil fuels represent around $5.2 trillion in assets under management, according to an analysis released today.

The oldest living former member of Congress, former Rep. Ken Hechler (D-W.Va.), died Saturday at 102 years old.

A federal judge sentenced former Pennsylvania Rep. Chaka Fattah to 10 years in prison. The Democrat was convicted earlier this year on charges including the misuse of campaign funds and federal grants.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said today that he shares growing bipartisan concerns over alleged Russian meddling in the election, but repeatedly declined to offer an opinion on the rumored nomination of Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Rex Tillerson as secretary of State in the incoming Trump administration.

A Chicago company has listed President-elect Donald Trump as a risk in its regulatory filings.

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