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New York's Senate has recommended the creation of a new water regulatory body in the aftermath of a contamination crisis in the town of Hoosick Falls.

A utility in South Carolina has nixed plans to excavate and remove polluted coal tar from the bottom of the Congaree River, on the suggestion of state regulators.

U.S. EPA has published a fresh set of proposed regional haze regulations for Texas, opening a 60-day public comment period on a plan that would require added pollution controls on 14 power plants in the state.

The Bureau of Land Management announced three top-tier hires yesterday, filling regional and national spots as the Obama administration winds down.

Radioactive waste is spreading inside a derelict facility within Washington state's Hanford site, the Department of Energy's now-shuttered factory that made plutonium for nuclear warheads.

The Department of Energy is pulling funding from a planned wind farm off the coast of New Jersey as the project flatlines.

The Washington Department of Natural Resources yesterday announced it will take steps to block two proposed coal export terminals in the state.

The number of deaths in American mines reached a record low in 2016, the Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration said yesterday.

A rainy start to California's traditional wet season has somewhat eased the state's five-year drought, and more storms are on the way, state officials announced yesterday.

With flooding and extreme weather on the rise, federal auditors are urging that the Commerce Department help ensure design standards and building codes rely on forward-looking climate information.

The Utah Supreme Court will hear a controversial case about the state's rivers and streams and the clash between public access and private property.

Defendants in the trial for the 2014 armed standoff at the Bundy family ranch in Nevada have asked the court to allow the jury to visit the scene of the alleged crimes.

Fishery managers in Minnesota are facing growing concerns over the future populations of herring in Lake Superior.

Endangered species that form secondary populations after escaping illegal trading could offer long-term survival for the species, according to a new study.

Two U.S. timber mills are making a new wood product that has the attention of the construction industry.

A dispute between crabbers and seafood processors over the price of Dungeness crabs has led to a strike along the West Coast.

Dolphins trained by the Navy will be part of a last-ditch effort to save vaquita porpoises from extinction.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said yesterday that a wildfire-fighting initiative meant to safeguard sagebrush steppe in the American West will likely remain intact during the Trump administration.

The Obama administration angered many southeastern Utah residents with last week's Bears Ears National Monument designation, but federal land managers also granted local all-terrain vehicle riders a sought-after trail in the area.

The Fish and Wildlife Service today unveiled plans to remove federal protections from a small member of the mint family that is found only around one temporary, high-elevation pool outside Palm Springs, Calif.

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