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Decades of underinvestment have put a network of dams and locks that make commercial river traffic possible at risk for failure.

Humans have caused the remote Arctic tundra to be filled with mercury, according to a new study.

Officials in California's Owens Valley are looking to reverse land grabs by the city of Los Angeles that have been slowly draining the area of its water for more than a century.

The Tennessee Valley Authority found high levels of arsenic and other toxins in groundwater under a Memphis, Tenn., power plant where thousands of tons of coal ash has been impounded.

The Federal Railroad Administration yesterday scrapped a plan to build new high-speed railroad tracks through Connecticut and Rhode Island after complaints from locals that the project would destroy neighborhoods and marshlands.

Former Deputy Secretary of Energy Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall is joining Harvard University as a senior fellow.

The Department of Energy paid for the law degree of an engineer who then promptly left the agency for a job in the private sector, according to an inspector general report released this week.

Gov. John Hickenlooper's (D) move to have Colorado join a group of states pledging to support the Paris climate deal was met with instant jeers from GOP candidates looking to replace him next year.

The California Legislature is embroiled in a battle over extending the state's cap-and-trade program for another decade.

An appeals court ruled Tuesday that a pulp and paper industry group in Florida should be able to challenge controversial water-quality regulations approved nearly a year ago by a state regulatory commission.

A Chicago-based federal appeals court has agreed to transfer jurisdiction over a lawsuit challenging a U.S. EPA air quality nonattainment designation to its counterpart in Washington, D.C.

Two environmental groups today sued Kentucky Utilities Co. to force a cleanup of coal ash that is allegedly contaminating groundwater that flows into a large man-made lake.

Northeast fishermen this week asked the Supreme Court to take up their lawsuit challenging a federal program that requires most groundfish boats to pay for their own at-sea watchdogs.

A fisherman who has helped untangle endangered whales from fishing lines for years was killed by a whale off New Brunswick on Monday after freeing the animal, according to a Canadian agency.

Bureau of Land Management firefighters last week helped save a group of endangered pygmy rabbits from the Sutherland Canyon Fire near Wenatchee, Wash.

Seaside sparrows face new threats from predators as climate change and rising seas force them to move to higher ground, according to a study published yesterday in the journal The Condor: Ornithological Applications.

Humans could be on the way to mass extinction, according to a new study.

A record number of environmentalists were killed in 2016 — at least 200 across 24 countries — according to the group Global Witness.

The Trump administration's preference to outsource more park functions to private companies is running into resistance from a large group of current and former employees of the National Park Service.

Ranchers on Point Reyes National Seashore in Northern California targeted by environmental groups were granted a temporary reprieve yesterday in a settlement of a high-stakes lawsuit.

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