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In the final days of the Obama administration, U.S. EPA issued an internal memo that avoided setting a new threshold for acceptable lead levels, despite nationwide promises to communities dealing with lead poisoning.

Exposure to lead as a child can lead to a loss of future intelligence and status, according to a new study.

Former Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who championed alternative energy during his nearly eight years under President Obama, has become an adviser to a venture capital firm.

Coal production rose slightly in the latter half of 2016, said the U.S. Energy Information Administration today.

China is beginning construction on its first large-scale carbon capture project.

New Jersey cannot be held liable for pollution discharges that happened before an important environmental law was established, the New Jersey Supreme Court found yesterday.

Delaware is challenging U.S. EPA's delay in acting on a dispute over a Pennsylvania power plant's alleged impact on the smaller state's air quality.

U.S. EPA will be allowed to make public the city, county, ZIP code and permit status — but no more — of certain big livestock farms, under a settlement the agency reached with two farm groups.

A federal judge has again rebuffed a California farmer's challenge to federal regulators over the reach of the Clean Water Act.

The Trump administration is urging the Supreme Court to pass on a case challenging the Obama administration's critical habitat designation for the polar bear.

Wildlife officials said today that they have captured images of Indochinese tigers and cubs in Thailand's eastern jungles, confirming the existence of a second breeding population of the endangered species.

Three Weather Channel storm chasers died when their vehicles collided during severe storms in West Texas yesterday.

Chinese demand for ivory has dropped as the country plans to end its legal trade later this year, said a leading elephant conservation group today.

The National Park Service is investigating the theft of fossilized animal tracks from Death Valley National Park.

Sally Yozell, a former State Department official who spearheaded the Our Ocean Conference, will soon join the Stimson Center.

Thousands of oil wells in wildlife refuges and national parks could see less oversight under President Trump's executive order on "energy independence."