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As aluminum company Alcoa Corp. leaves Suriname after 100 years, debate over the company's 1.2-mile-long dam is coming to a head.

Famous Italian-born conservationist Kuki Gallmann, 73, was shot in her central Kenya conservation park. She was airlifted to a nearby hospital.

The owner of an inactive gold mine in Colorado wants a court to remove 27 sites from a Superfund cleanup area established after a wastewater spill from another mine.

Trillions of gallons of Michigan's ground and surface water gets sucked up by utilities, industries and farmers each year, a Detroit Free Press report found.

The head of California's High-Speed Rail Authority will leave the agency in June after a mixed five-year tenure that saw some progress but was held back by significant delays.

Countries in the Middle East are developing space programs that may lead to the development of natural resources in space.

In the northeast Pennsylvania heart of anthracite coal country, the industry is smaller, more efficient and — some say — safer and cleaner than ever.

The Department of Energy was "inadequate" in overseeing funds for two major research programs targeted for budget cuts by the Trump administration, according to an audit.

More than three dozen cities, states and advocacy groups are pressing an appellate court to reject U.S. EPA's bid for an open-ended delay in litigation over a pillar of its decision to limit power plant mercury emissions.

North Dakota's Agriculture Department is asking residents to be on the lookout for invasive pests, plants and diseases following the protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Friday to open up more offshore waters to drilling, possibly targeting areas President Obama attempted to permanently withdraw from oil and gas leasing.

Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick spent Earth Day bird-watching in his eastern Pennsylvania district.

Six people will be honored today with the Goldman Environmental Prize, including Mark Lopez, who has worked to combat lead contamination from a battery recycling plant in his East Los Angeles neighborhood since 2008.

Kristina Johnson, a former undersecretary for the Department of Energy under President Obama, will be named the next chancellor of the State University of New York.

The U.S. EPA inspector general has cleared the agency of any wrongdoing in an EPA-funded advertising campaign focused on farming.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's associates from his Oklahoma political career continue to expand their federal lobbying practice.

DALLAS — U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said his agency should have responded faster to the lead contamination in Flint, Mich., and he considered taking emergency action to deal with a similar crisis in East Chicago, Ind.

U.S. EPA is keeping its open data website running despite concerns this morning that the agency was about to pull it down.

BOZEMAN, Mont. — "Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump!"

Donald Trump's election was a shock to climate-minded environmentalists, but the president may not have a significant impact on long-term U.S. carbon emissions reductions, especially if he doesn't follow through on all his promises.

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