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China will ban its domestic ivory trade by the end of 2017, the government announced last week, shutting down the world's largest market for poached ivory.

Montana's Legislature returned yesterday to a full slate of wildlife legislation: 10 bills are scheduled for hearing or have been referred to committee, and another 113 are being considered.

Michigan has barred municipalities from regulating, restricting, banning or taxing the use of plastic bags, under a law signed last week.

Wyoming state lawmakers expect a fierce battle over a constitutional amendment that would ease the transfer of federal public land to the state in the upcoming 64th Legislature.

A proposed rule in Florida that would have required the media to be alerted of a spill or pollution release within 24 hours of the incident has been deemed a overreach of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's legislative authority, according to a state judge.

Four people have died in Texas after toxic fumes, likely from a pesticide, filled their home.

New York City completed the removal of toxin-laced lighting fixtures from hundreds of school buildings last month, after a yearslong effort by public health groups forced the city to take action.

Highway planners are taking the first steps toward a future when smart roads will help vehicles move as quickly and safely as possible.

Residents living near Dartmouth College in New Hampshire claim the school's shuttered dumping ground for poisoned lab mice has polluted their groundwater.

In 2010, a two-year probe by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found "sticky" pedals were behind the deadly unintended acceleration of Toyota Camrys and forced a recall of 8 million cars.

A private coal company in Kentucky has taken steps toward an initial public offering, filing paperwork with securities regulators that would set in motion the first U.S. coal flotation in more than a year.

If the globe continues to warm at its current pace, California can expect to be hit with an average of three more extreme rainstorms per year, according to new research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

U.S. EPA and environmentalists are on the verge of settling their latest legal skirmish over the pace of efforts to clear the sooty air plaguing the Fairbanks, Alaska, area.

A federal appeals court last week vacated the Interior Department's approval of a controversial molybdenum open-pit mine in central Nevada.

U.S. EPA and the company planning Alaska's contentious Pebble mine gave themselves more time to resolve a lawsuit over the stalled copper and gold project, with mining promoters hoping that the incoming Donald Trump administration will let work begin.

EPA's latest attempt to rein in power plant pollution that drifts across state lines is facing a barrage of lawsuits from plaintiffs ranging from states and major utilities to the city of Ames, Iowa.

Scientists have not determined the cause of a massive fish kill in Nova Scotia, but at least one official is not worried.

"Planet Earth II," the popular nature series produced by David Attenborough, has received sharp criticism from another nature filmmaker, who called it "a disaster for the world's wildlife."