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Utah lawmakers once again face public outcry over inversion, as poor air quality continues to plague the state.

Wyoming state lawmakers rejected a bill that would have quintupled the state's wind tax.

A new pesticide from Monsanto Co. endangers public health and could lead to a surge in superweeds, a coalition of environmental groups that sued U.S. EPA last week over its approval of the compound has charged.

Peabody Energy Corp.'s plan to escape bankruptcy faces a slew of challenges from the state of Indiana, environmental groups and former executives.

The Finnish government is digging a subterranean lair to hold the country's spent nuclear fuel at a time when other nuclear waste project across the world are stalled.

A western Canadian pipeline has leaked 52,834 gallons of oil in a Saskatchewan aboriginal community, according to local officials.

The quiet town of Live Oak, Fla., may be home to the next Standing Rock-like protest.

An oil well in Colorado forced road closures for two days over the weekend when it blew out and sprayed hydrocarbons into the area.

A new study is challenging the common assumption that Democrats are more interested in renewable energy and solar power.

Rhode Island-based writer and environmental activist Mark Baumer died over the weekend when he was struck by an SUV on his second walk across the United States.

A new journal from an influential medical publisher will focus on the overlap between public health and environmental issues.

Salt marshes along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts are being lost to climate change, according to a study released today by the U.S. Geological Survey.

The reorganization plan of Peabody Energy Corp., the world's largest private-sector coal company, is facing objections from other parties who say a disputed lease in Wyoming could lose the company $1 billion in revenue.

A coal-fired power plant in St. Louis violates the Clean Air Act, a federal judge ruled yesterday in a decision that could force the owner to install millions of dollars' worth of pollution control devices.

Michael Emry, one of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupiers, pleaded guilty yesterday to possessing a machine gun that he brought to Oregon in a van loaned to him by Ammon Bundy.

Attendees of arguments at the federal appeals court in Washington will no longer be allowed to hire professional "line standers" to hold their place in line inside the courthouse, the court announced today.

Foes of the Obama administration's rule limiting methane from new oil and gas operations have asked a federal court for a delay in the litigation.

A slew of industrial toxins are accumulating in the bodies of polar bears and threatening their health, especially that of cubs, a new study shows.

Two singing snake catchers from India may have pulled off what snake-sniffing dogs and hunters from around the globe have failed to accomplish — ridding the Florida Everglades of the Burmese python.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released new color images of Earth that are like "high-definition from the heavens," according to the agency.

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