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Tourists looked on in horror over the weekend as the water at the base of Niagara Falls turned black after a discharge from a local wastewater treatment plant.

The global meat industry is fueling what is expected to be the worst dead zone on record in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a new report.

Nuclear weapons contractors running U.S. government facilities have improperly packaged or shipped hazardous nuclear substances at least 25 times in the past five years, according to government documents obtained by the Center for Public Integrity.

Since 2010, nearly 2,000 cases of chronic black lung disease have been diagnosed in the Appalachia region.

A Bureau of Land Management senior law enforcement manager allowed co-workers to "display" on their work desks moqui marbles being held as evidence in a criminal case, and gave away some of the ancient stones to a private contractor as a "reward" for good work, according to the Interior Department's internal watchdog.

Longtime Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett is joining Lyft's board of directors to work on urban transportation issues.

A power outage last week forced around 60,000 people to evacuate North Carolina's Outer Banks.

The natural gas storage facility at Aliso Canyon reopened yesterday for the first time after a 2015 blowout caused the country's largest known methane release.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued guidelines yesterday designed to help natural gas project developers meet their obligations for reporting on cultural and historic resources.

Since President Trump announced his intent to leave the Paris Agreement and roll back the Clean Power Plan, more states have stepped up to pledge independent action on curbing global warming.

A federal appeals court has revived two proposed class-action lawsuits against city officials in Michigan over the Flint lead contamination crisis.

A federal judge has denied Exxon Mobil Corp.'s bid to reduce or eliminate the roughly $20 million in fines he imposed in April for repeated air pollution violations at the company's massive Baytown refinery and chemical complex near Houston.

The state of Alaska, Native regional organizations and municipal governments are asking the Supreme Court to take up a legal dispute over protections for Arctic bearded seals.

Zebra mussels have long wreaked havoc on North American and European waterways, but researchers at the University of Minnesota are tooling up for biological warfare against the invasive species.

North American right whales are dying in "unprecedented" numbers, and conservationists can't figure out why.

The Fish and Wildlife Service formally lifted protections yesterday for grizzly bears near Yellowstone National Park.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke yesterday trumpeted new endangered crawfish management plans, which are clearing the way for an Appalachian coal mine. Zinke touted the plans as an example of the administration's commitment to coal.

Forty-two House Republicans pressed U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt yesterday to abandon new hardrock mining insurance requirements despite a court order for his agency to publish a final rule by Dec. 1.

The Center for Western Priorities today launched a new television ad in the Washington, D.C., media market urging Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to refrain from recommending any changes to the dozens of national monuments currently under review.

Environmentalists accused U.S. EPA yesterday of dereliction of duty for trying to delay Obama-era Clean Water Act standards aimed at curbing toxic water discharges from power plants.

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