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The Wyoming Legislature passed a bill this week that would allow Tesla Inc. to sell its electric cars directly to drivers in the state.

Regulators are investigating a pipeline spill in northwest North Dakota that contaminated an unnamed waterway.

Omega-3 supplements could potentially help limit the harm caused by air pollution, according to new research.

Some 1,200 people in Europe will die early because of excess emissions released as a result of Volkswagen AG's evasion of pollution controls on millions of diesel-powered cars, a new study predicts.

A huge but overlooked challenge in developing the self-driving car industry is creating 3-D computerized maps with details on stoplights, lane markings, exit ramps and more that can be updated in real time.

When now-President Trump started construction on the 1899-era Old Post Office Pavilion in Washington to turn it into a 263-room luxury hotel, the National Park Service stopped tours to the top of the building's historic clock tower.

The Department of Agriculture has restored to its website some of the animal welfare documents that vanished Feb. 3. But the documents are only a small fraction of the tens of thousands the agency scrubbed last month (Greenwire, Feb. 6).

A federal report offers new details about the death of a worker at one of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice's (D) coal mines this week.

California oil regulators found dozens of violations at the Newport Banning Ranch oil field, officials said yesterday.

The White House is divided on President Trump's campaign promise to pull out of the Paris Agreement.

The first criminal case against a journalist from the Dakota Access pipeline protests was to start yesterday, but it was dismissed after the judge ruled North Dakota did not meet its burden of proof.

Defense lawyers in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge takeover case got a strong blow yesterday when U.S. District Judge Anna Brown ruled that prosecutors could play an excerpt from an Oregon Public Broadcasting interview with Ryan Bundy.

An Illinois electric utility has become the latest challenger to U.S. EPA's attainment decisions for a key sulfur dioxide air quality standard.

Greens are objecting to what they say is an industry attempt to delay a ruling in the massive litigation over the Obama administration's signature climate rule.

New findings about how the woolly mammoth died out have implications for current endangered species with dwindling populations.

A Bureau of Land Management trail camera captured the image of a new wild jaguar in southern Arizona late last year, marking the third jaguar to be documented in the Copper State in recent years.

A bipartisan effort has resurfaced on Capitol Hill to streamline the licensing of nuclear designs and curb industry fees tied to federal oversight.

The Interior Department's changes to fossil fuel royalty calculations face elimination in both chambers of Congress after Senate Republicans yesterday issued a new resolution to kill the controversial rule.

Long before he was a top House watchdog patrolling energy and environmental agencies, Rep. Blake Farenthold was a disc jockey in the Lone Star State.

The retreat from President Obama's Climate Action Plan formally started yesterday at U.S. EPA, when Administrator Scott Pruitt yanked a request to the oil and gas industry for information on methane emissions.

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