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A Los Angeles jury yesterday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $417 million in damages to a medical receptionist who, after using Johnson's Baby Powder on her perineum for decades, developed ovarian cancer.

Scientists and visitors at zoos around the country observed strange animal behavior during yesterday's coast-to-coast total solar eclipse.

Critics of a national wild horse conference that starts today in Salt Lake City say the Utah organizers have left out key figures in the horse-advocacy community and closed the event to the public.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) is learning to walk again after he was shot at a congressional baseball practice in June, said House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).

Newly elected Montana Republican Rep. Greg Gianforte will have to get a mug shot and be fingerprinted after he body-slammed a reporter the night before his special election in May.

A former aide to Reps. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) and Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.) is joining the House Energy and Commerce Committee as press secretary.

More people could die from safety problems if Congress passes two regulatory reform measures this fall, according to a TV ad paid for by Clean Air Moms Action, a project of the Environmental Defense Fund.

NextGen America, the advocacy group led by billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, is jumping into the Virginia gubernatorial race.

Scientists are sharply criticizing the Trump administration's decision to disband a NOAA climate advisory panel, calling it the latest attempt to ignore and dismiss science.

U.S. EPA is running afoul of its scientific integrity policy by giving a political appointee final say over the drafting of research grant solicitations, Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) charged yesterday.

Intellectual property tensions are straining relations between the National Park Service and major park concessionaires.

A former top Alabama environmental regulator will lead U.S. EPA's Region 4 office in Atlanta, the agency announced yesterday.

Federal regulators did not adequately consider greenhouse gas emissions when approving a natural gas pipeline project in the Southeast, a federal court today ruled.

The rhetoric of "job-killing regulations" was launched under President Reagan and has flourished in the Republican-led Congress and Trump administration. Is it accurate?

Environmentalists today took the Dutch government to court, demanding that it do more to meet air quality targets set by the European Union.

After 11 dogs with bright blue fur were spotted roaming the streets of Mumbai, Indian officials shut down a manufacturing company accused of dumping untreated dyes and waste into a local river.

A typhoon slammed Hong Kong and south China today, disrupting flights and financial markets. In Macau, three people were killed.

In rapidly warming sub-Arctic Alaska, one of the most striking results of climate change is the loss of permafrost, say scientists from Woods Hole Research Center who are studying it. And that loss could further accelerate warming in the future.

LG Electronics Inc. will build a $25 million electric car parts factory in Michigan to produce battery packs and other key components, the company announced today.

Last year, Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Matthew Beaton used taxpayer dollars to pay for a round-trip plane ticket during his Florida vacation.

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