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Radioactive contamination from the defunct Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility in Colorado did not cause residents' cancer, a state study concluded yesterday, even though it said some neighborhoods did exhibit above-average incidences of the disease.

National security and automotive experts are urging autonomous vehicle manufacturers to share information with each other and set joint standards.

Singer and actress Cher will star in a TV movie on the Lifetime channel based on the Flint, Mich., water crisis.

U.S. EPA is seeking public input on preliminary interstate ozone modeling data that will play a key role in guiding states' efforts to comply with "good neighbor" requirements embedded in the stricter ozone standard set last year.

U.S. EPA announced this week a delay in completing new standards to protect underground water sources from uranium mining, effectively leaving the matter to President-elect Donald Trump's team.

The federal workforce expanded over the past year, adding thousands of new employees to its ranks, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said today.

Kathy Burek often spends her days cutting up creatures of all sorts in Alaska and trying to figure out what killed them.

A federal jury in Ohio ordered chemical giant DuPont to dole out $10.5 million yesterday to a man who says his testicular cancer was caused by the company's pollution.

Beavers imported from Canada to Tierra del Fuego more than 70 years ago are causing problems for local ecosystems.

Federal officials are eyeing an expansion of fish farming in the federal waters around the Pacific Ocean, a move they say would provide a promising solution to overfishing to feed a hungry planet.

The new owner of land outside the newly designated Bears Ears National Monument has blocked a commonly used route to access the area.

A Canadian mining company has withdrawn its bid to explore a federal tract for zinc, lead and silver at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration proposed two new marine sanctuaries today, releasing draft plans to protect waters in Wisconsin and Maryland.

The Bureau of Land Management yesterday finalized four plans guiding management of 6.5 million acres of public land in east-central Alaska, stretching from the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge to the Canadian border.

Groups seeking to protest the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump will be granted permits soon, a National Park Service spokesman confirmed yesterday.

Conservative billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch are courting a new demographic: minorities.

Dan Abrams, a top aide at U.S. EPA, has joined the Earth Day Network.

NextEra Energy Inc. has brought on a well-connected Republican-leaning lobby firm.

Alex McDonough, an energy policy adviser to former Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, has taken a top post at California-based solar firm Sunrun Inc.

Texas Rep. Sam Johnson, the oldest Republican in the House, announced today that he will retire at the end of the 115th Congress.

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