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LAS VEGAS — Consumer advocate Ralph Nader slammed the U.S. Department of Transportation at a technology conference here yesterday for not doing enough to guarantee highway safety as automakers race to develop self-driving cars.

Two Australian mining executives accused of polluting an Alaska salmon stream are still fugitives, but federal prosecutors are looking to drop charges against a company they once led.

The Chesapeake Bay watershed is seeing the clearest water in decades, with fisheries, pollution and habitat improving since 2014, said a new report from a regional environmental group.

A Wyoming coal-fired power plant would have to slash emissions of nitrogen oxides under a proposal aimed at ending part of a three-year court clash over the scope of a U.S. EPA crackdown on haze-forming air pollution.

A yearlong investigation of endangered masked bobwhite quail breeding facilities at a southern Arizona wildlife sanctuary released today found evidence that the Fish and Wildlife Service may have retaliated against an employee who raised concerns about conditions there to outside experts.

Robert Nordhaus, former general counsel at the Department of Energy under President Clinton, died on Christmas Eve after a battle with prostate cancer that lasted over five years.

U.S. EPA is seeking to prevent Genscape Inc. from verifying biofuel compliance credits.

Alaskan environmental officials are investigating a recent oil spill near a Tesoro Corp. refinery in the Kenai Peninsula Borough.

The Department of Energy began shuttling drums into the nation's only subterranean nuclear waste vault yesterday for the first time in almost three years.

The owners of an enormous coal-fired power plant on the Navajo reservation in northern Arizona are considering shuttering it within the next few years.

Four people were rescued from a burning oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico this morning by the U.S. Coast Guard. No injuries were reported.

The Army Corps of Engineers today rejected calls from tribal leaders to remove oil and gas pipelines from a complex permitting system under which the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota was approved.

When climatic conditions favor heavy hurricane activity, they also create a buffer zone that weakens storms as they approach the United States, according to a new study.

Briefings will continue as scheduled in the legal challenge to U.S. EPA's carbon rule for new power plants, a federal court ordered yesterday.

A New Mexico district court threw out yet another challenge by off-highway vehicle enthusiasts to a 2012 Santa Fe National Forest management plan that reduced the number of OHV trails and banned off-road riding.

Florida law enforcement officials yesterday charged the former chief ranger of Canaveral National Seashore with one count of misdemeanor battery over allegations that he sexually harassed a female National Park Service employee.

When a nonnative fish is spotted on the artificial reef off of Key Largo, Fla., specialists with the Reef Environmental Education Foundation jump into action.

A river flowing through Yosemite National Park is expected to flood this weekend and may rise higher than it did during a catastrophic flood in 1997.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration yesterday announced its recovery plan for endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales in Alaska.

The Bureau of Land Management wants to nix one of the four solar energy zones in the San Luis Valley in Colorado where renewable energy development could be fast-tracked on public lands.

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