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With two top energy staffers expected to soon start work in the Trump White House, attention is now turning to another critical environmental post, chairmanship of the Council on Environmental Quality.

Human activity is forcing elephants from their habitat in northeast India, according to wildlife activists.

More than 400 pilot whales were stranded on a remote New Zealand beach today, leading hundreds of people to work to save the survivors.

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (D) said Wednesday in his first State of the State address that industry and business will stop hearing "no" from the state Department of Environmental Protection.

The Texas Railroad Commission needs more funding to regulate the state's oil and gas industry and protect public safety, a commission official said yesterday.

An Idaho legislative committee approved new public school science standards but struck references to climate change caused by human behavior.

Hawaii officials may have been violating a state law for years by granting fishing licenses to foreign workers who were denied entry into the country, the Associated Press found.

After a harsh winter continually buried trash and other objects at the Dakota Access pipeline protest site, officials have started to worry that the waste could affect the Cannonball and Missouri rivers.

Hundreds of gunshot victims suffer from lead poisoning from bullet fragments still in their bodies, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

More than 100 million gallons of raw sewage and stormwater have flowed into Puget Sound after a failure at the King County wastewater treatment plant in Seattle.

California's San Joaquin Valley is sinking at an alarming rate due to groundwater pumping and irrigation, according to NASA.

The company behind a proposal to develop North America's largest coal export terminal this week pulled its application to build the facility in Puget Sound.

Unplug your cellphone from an electrical outlet and let nearby lamps or sunlight power it instead.

Bill Nye the Science Guy is staying optimistic as he prepares to launch a fact-focused science TV show in a world of "alternative facts" and science skepticism.

Scientists have discovered what caused the massive die-off of tens of thousands of North Pacific seabirds about a year ago: warming ocean temperatures.

A federal judge in Las Vegas denied motions to dismiss charges against 17 defendants stemming from the 2014 standoff at the Cliven Bundy ranch.

The coal industry is pushing back against the Trump administration's claims that assessing the job impacts of air regulations will pose a "significant" burden on U.S. EPA.

A panel of federal judges today appeared skeptical of U.S. EPA's argument that a challenge by environmentalists to a 2015 hazardous air pollution rule is untimely.