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Despite a room full of angry residents, the Des Moines City Council voted yesterday in support of legislation that would dismantle Des Moines Water Works.

Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush, son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), has become a leading voice for a storm-surge barrier on the Texas Gulf Coast.

California Democratic lawmakers want to put a $3 billion bond for state parks on the 2018 ballot.

Alberta energy regulators are responding to a spill from a Husky Energy Inc. pipeline.

About 1,000 gallons of sodium hydroxide leaked from a West Virginia storage tank at a closed coal mine.

If average temperatures increase by 1 degree Celsius, the number of Americans suffering from diabetes will rise by over 100,000 each year, according to a new study.

Federal research centers studying climate change failed to property share their data findings with each other as well as with their state, local and private-sector counterparts, according to a new report from the Interior Department's Office of Inspector General.

Extreme warming, sea ice melt and polar heat waves are continuing in 2017, after the Earth smashed global temperature records in 2016, said the World Meteorological Organization today.

U.S. EPA and the company promoting the development of a southwestern Alaska mine jointly asked a federal court yesterday for a few more weeks to resolve litigation over possible federal limits on the gold and copper project.

Attorneys on both sides of a key property rights case expressed confidence in the wake of yesterday's Supreme Court arguments — but also acknowledged that the complexities of such cases mean that justices don't always line up as expected.

The deep freeze that chilled the Southeast last week nearly wiped out Georgia's blueberries and South Carolina's peaches.

One million fingerling salmon started their journey from the Feather River to the ocean yesterday after being rescued from almost certain death when the Oroville Dam spillway collapsed last month.

An Oregon campground is closing after a ponderosa pine that used to be one of the tallest of its species on the planet died following a beetle infestation.

Cheerios gave away 1.5 billion wildflower seeds this month in an effort to help ailing bee populations, but some of the packets included plants deemed invasive in some states or banned in others.

The National Park Service is planning to provide wireless internet access to parts of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada as early as this summer.

Sharks in Florida are worth more in the water than their fins are worth out of it, according to a report released today by Oceana.

Millions of acres of wildlife habitat are being lost to ethanol production near refineries, the National Wildlife Federation said in a study published today.

New Mexico has sold nearly 30 percent of the land it received from the federal government before becoming a state, an analysis by the Wilderness Society has found.

Lawmakers and agricultural groups took turns yesterday attacking the Trump administration's proposed cuts to farm programs, and they blamed the delay in confirming a new secretary of Agriculture for some of the plan's potential bite.

A group of Senate Democrats sent President Trump a letter today urging him to walk back his proposed "indiscriminate" 12 percent cut to the Interior Department's fiscal 2018 budget.

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