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As smog worsens, China is clamping down on companies that discharge pollutants.

It could be several years before aquatic life in a Virginia creek returns to normal following a chemical spill that caused one of the worst fish kills ever recorded in the state.

The nation's air quality improved last year, according to figures in a newly released U.S. EPA report.

U.S. EPA will nix a proposal to overhaul the nation's biofuel program that would have pushed fuel blending responsibility farther down the supply chain, according to sources familiar with the situation.

Volkswagen AG executive Oliver Schmidt pleaded guilty today in a U.S. District Court in Detroit to charges in connection to the massive diesel emission scandal that has cost the automaker as much as $25 billion.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has scheduled oral arguments for Oct. 17 in long-running litigation over U.S. EPA's regulations on coal ash disposal.

Fresh off a victory in their bid to kill the Trump administration's delay in methane standards for the oil and gas industry, greens are asking a court to declare as unlawful another delay of an Obama-era air regulation.

Just after midnight on Aug. 13, 1967, patrol ranger Bert Gildart got a radio message that a grizzly bear mauled someone in Glacier National Park.

While he was still working as a garbage truck driver, Jim Peaco spotted a crested caracara in Yellowstone National Park, thousands of miles north of its normal range.

Commercial fishing deaths in Alaska have spiked following a historic low.

An elite firefighter from California was killed Wednesday battling a blaze in Montana, the second wildfire-related death in the area in two weeks.

Scientists have identified a second garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean that could be larger than Texas.

The National Park Service gave a new job and a bonus to a park superintendent accused of sexual harassment, even as Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke pledged a "zero tolerance" policy for sexual misconduct.

The Army Corps of Engineers on Monday plans to release an overdue draft report on ways to keep invasive Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes.

Two preservation groups have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Army Corps of Engineers' approval of a permit authorizing a power company to build a 17-mile-long transmission line across the James River in Virginia that they say will be visible from Colonial National Historical Park and other historic sites.

J.P. Freire, formerly U.S. EPA's top spokesman under the Trump administration, has left the agency.

Energy boardrooms around the country last night welcomed Senate confirmation of two new commissioners for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, ending months of uncertainty and taking a major step toward restoring a quorum at the agency.

Trump administration officials have been busy this week touting the Interior Department's streamlining of a coal mine permit review.

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today will launch an effort focused on state legislatures to counter President Trump's decision to leave the Paris climate agreement.

The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement turned 40 yesterday, but the celebration did not extend much beyond the coal regulating agency's closed-door event.

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