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The California Legislature is looking to extend its low-emission vehicle subsidies.

North Carolina's Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper plans to oppose any Trump administration attempt to open the Atlantic Ocean to offshore oil and gas drilling.

The pediatrician and professor who first created public awareness of the water crisis in Flint, Mich., will receive the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab's first Disobedience Award today.

A Berkeley engineer released a scathing report yesterday pointing fingers at state water resources officials and federal regulators for the failure of the Oroville Dam spillway in February.

Lawyers will square off in October in front of the Supreme Court in a hot-button case over which court is the correct legal venue to hear challenges to the Obama administration's Clean Water Rule.

A northeastern Washington wolf pack is now subject to lethal removal protocol as a result of a fourth confirmed livestock killing since September.

When Northern California was pelted with record rainfall this year, miners predicted it would turn up gold, and their predictions appear to be spot on.

Tourists could still see Half Dome through the smoky haze in Yosemite National Park yesterday, some seemingly oblivious to the massive fire 30 miles west of the park entrance.

Baby American eels face a treacherous journey over thousands of miles between their spawning point in the Sargasso Sea and the Hudson River and other East Coast rivers where they mature.

The Fish and Wildlife Service is juggling the question of where circus lions should live once their domestic big top days are done.

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) formally created a political action committee for funding travel this week, fanning rumors of a 2020 presidential bid.

Former Rep. Ralph Regula, a Republican who represented northeastern Ohio for 36 years, died Wednesday. He was 92.

An invasive insect that has wiped out more than 200,000 acres of roseau cane in Louisiana's wetlands has drawn the attention of U.S. congressional appropriators.

Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders came out against a bipartisan, comprehensive Senate energy policy reform bill yesterday, saying that it would boost fossil fuels by streamlining the permitting processes for pipelines and natural gas exports.

Life in the Trump administration has been anything but ordinary for Dan Simmons.

Federal regulators issued a final environmental impact statement for the controversial Atlantic Coast pipeline today, concluding that the project would result in some adverse effects on the environment but that they could largely be mitigated.

An appeals court in Washington yesterday greenlighted the merger between utilities Exelon Corp. and Pepco Holdings Inc.

The Department of Energy today offered buyouts and early retirements for up to 35 people in the agency's renewable energy and efficiency office that's slated for deep funding cuts under President Trump's budget proposal.

Security guards in Poland's Bialowieza Forest last week forcibly threw out protesters who sought to stop logging operations in one of Europe's last primeval woods.

Portland, Ore., needs to create a local air pollution authority if it wants clean air, said Mayor Ted Wheeler (D).

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