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Oregon Gov. Kate Brown's (D) office reversed course yesterday, releasing six emails it had withheld from a public records request. The messages show that Brown opposed Richard Whitman's appointment as the head of the state environmental agency.

Montana wildlife officials want to switch to a different model to count wolves in the state. They say the current one is too expensive and is inaccurate.

A Northern California activist group has sued state officials for allegedly illegally withholding information about potentially toxic asbestos at the Oroville Dam.

The pesticide used to fight Zika-carrying mosquitoes in Florida and in other states has been linked to motor function problems in Chinese babies, according to a new study.

Toxic chemicals are present in the drinking water of 15 million Americans, the Environmental Working Group and Northeastern University said in a report released today.

When U.S. EPA regulators set limits on benzene content in gasoline in 2007, they predicted the new rule would eventually cut emissions of the toxic chemical by 20,000 tons per year.

Many of the safety systems at Los Alamos National Laboratory date to the 1970s and will likely need to be upgraded, officials said yesterday.

Rio Tinto PLC, the mining giant, plans to tap a copper deposit 7,000 feet below the earth's surface, where temperatures run to 175 degrees Fahrenheit and water drips at 600 gallons per minute.

Several Asian nations signed a promise to reduce marine plastic pollution at a recent U.N. summit.

The tiny porpoise in the Gulf of California has three potential saviors: the Mexican government, tycoon Carlos Slim and actor Leonardo DiCaprio.

Neil Shook watched a massive brown cloud cover the horizon at his home in Woodworth, N.D.

Animal advocacy groups have been arguing for years that the Miami Seaquarium's lone killer whale, Lolita, is kept in too small a tank.

The Forest Service yesterday approved the Rosemont copper mine project that environmentalists oppose, claiming it treads on the only known range for endangered jaguars in the United States.

Gulf Coast environmental groups are worried about President Trump's nominee for the Justice Department's top environmental lawyer, Jeffrey Bossert Clark.

The Trump administration is considering combining two agencies tasked with managing offshore drilling, which were split apart after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to officials and lobbyists.

The American Petroleum Institute announced today that it has hired Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's former deputy chief of staff, a move that could further strengthen ties between the Trump administration and the oil and gas industry.

Proposed wildfire and forest management legislation released by House Republicans today aims for finding middle ground with Democrats.

The Senate Judiciary Committee today approved President Trump's pick for solicitor general of the United States.

Republican governors in Western states cheered the Trump administration's decision to review greater sage grouse conservation efforts, as Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke vowed to deal with complaints that his agency has been too "heavy-handed" in safeguarding the species.

A North Dakota judge who's a central figure in the court battles over the Obama administration's contentious Clean Water Rule has been picked by President Trump to fill a vacant seat on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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