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Federal energy and environmental programs are becoming more and more at risk of waste and fraud.

Georgia yesterday notched a big win in the ongoing Southeast water wars when a special master advised the Supreme Court to reject Florida's claims about the Peach State's excessive water use.

OROVILLE, Calif. — People who live below the nation's tallest dam returned home yesterday as officials declared damage to the Oroville Dam's two spillways under control for now and lifted an evacuation order.

Massachusetts environmentalists are calling on legislators to aim for 100 percent renewable energy use by 2035.

Missouri's newest state park is closing after only a month of operation.

The Montana State Parks agency has $11.2 million in the bank, and state officials have been unable to explain why.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) is scaling back his proposal to start a pollution trading credit as part of the state's efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay.

A series of accidents and resulting investigations at industrial drum reconditioning plants have raised questions of oversight, pollution and worker safety at facilities operated by Greif Inc., the majority owner in the company that owns the plants.

Farmworkers exposed to high pesticide levels are more likely to show DNA-level molecular changes that can lead to cancers, according to a study of pesticide distributors in Iowa and North Carolina.

A specific type of childhood cancer may be linked to oil and gas activity nearby, according to a new study from the University of Colorado.

California is home to over 1,500 dams, and many of the major dams have spillways that have gone untested and overlooked — until the Oroville Dam crisis came along.

Facing a commodity glut and low income, U.S. farmers are turning to the web for fertilizer and pesticide deals.

An Alaska environmental group released a video showing water and ice disturbed by an undersea natural gas pipeline leak in Cook Inlet.

North Dakota and federal officials intend to speed up the cleanup process at the Dakota Access protest camp, citing coming floods from the nearby Cannonball River.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys finalized the jury for the second trial of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge standoff defendants yesterday, selecting a panel of seven women and five men.

The Dakota Access oil pipeline builders acted lawfully in taking private land under Iowa's eminent domain laws, a Polk County judge ruled yesterday.

A federal judge has denied a request to block the sale of an 79,000-acre offshore lease to Statoil ASA for a New York wind farm.

Permits to hunt bighorn sheep are sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and those funds have been used to help regrow wild sheep populations.

The Upper Midwest should be prepping for ice-fishing tournaments and festivals, but some local officials are wishing the weather wasn't as unexpectedly nice as it is.

A widespread beetle infestation in Colorado has peppered forests with 834 million dead trees that are threatening to exacerbate wildfires and degrade water supplies.

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