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Nearly 200,000 Northern California residents were ordered to evacuate yesterday as officials monitored an eroding spillway at the nation's tallest dam.

China may impose stringent cuts on steel and aluminum producers, ban coal in one of its top ports, and close some fertilizer and drug plants as the government ratchets up the war on smog.

Two proposed ski lodges on Aspen Mountain in Colorado have connections to President Trump.

A Washington Supreme Court ruling in October over unregulated water wells in rural areas sent counties scrambling to halt building permits, catching developers and homeowners by surprise.

Gov. Scott Walker's budget request would halt funding for a magazine published by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

Environmental groups are trying to stop the last phase of a Dominion Virginia Power plan to bury 1 million tons of coal ash at a plant near the Potomac River.

National Weather Service systems for alerting the public failed for nearly three hours yesterday as a blizzard swept through Maine and Northern California faced the threat of a calamitous flood.

The Oroville Dam crisis in California might already be shaking the state's power market.

Total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions decreased 2.2 percent between 2014 and 2015, according to a draft U.S. EPA inventory published today.

A legal showdown is expected between 600 Texas residents and property owners along the San Jacinto River and companies that own hidden pits where a paper mill and its partners reportedly dumped sludge laced with cancer-causing chemicals.

Jurors at the trial for six Cliven Bundy backers yesterday saw aerial footage of the beginning of the April 2014 armed standoff with federal agents.

A New York man pleaded guilty yesterday to trafficking dozens of federally protected turtles in boxes labeled "snacks" from Hong Kong in May 2016.

Federal prosecutors took the unusual step of hiring a consultant for jury selection in the second trial of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupiers.

Dupont Co. yesterday said it had reached a $671 million settlement with thousands of Ohio and West Virginia residents over exposure to the chemical used to make Teflon.

A three-judge panel yesterday upheld a dismissal of a lawsuit against a Bureau of Land Management agent for allegedly causing the suicide of a physician in Utah.

President Trump's Justice Department is mounting the same defense the Obama administration employed to shield the federal government from paying out more compensation connected to the 2015 Gold King mine spill.

The Spodoptera frugiperda moth species came to southern Africa last year and has been steadily munching its way through the region's crops, decimating agriculture and threatening the breadbasket of the region.

Scientist are racing to collect and document rare plant life at Cambodian limestone cliffs before the unique habitats are destroyed by companies trying to produce cement.