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Early estimates of Hurricane Harvey's flood damage are staggering, with residential property losses expected to range from $25 billion to $37 billion, according to updated figures released yesterday from CoreLogic, a real estate data and analytics firm.

A NOAA scientist yesterday called for a study into whether human-caused climate change played a role in producing the historic rainfall from Hurricane Harvey.

John Graham has written a paper that swayed a Supreme Court decision, earned tenure at Harvard University at age 34 and testified before the European Parliament.

The Trump administration announced yesterday that four companies will build concrete prototypes of a border wall, just ahead of an expected congressional fight over border security funding.

Cliven Bundy and his sons Ammon and Ryan will stand trial beginning Oct. 10 for their actions in the 2014 armed standoff with federal authorities at their Bunkerville, Nev., ranch.

The White House is moving to hire an official whom some companies are referring to as a nuclear "czar" as it ramps up a review of ways to bolster the nation's struggling nuclear industry.

The White House is expected to nominate two officials for top U.S. EPA jobs next week, according to an administration official.

U.S. EPA cannot sidestep a court-approved deal to address air pollution from coal-fired power plants in Texas, a federal court has ruled.

A federal investigative agency that President Trump sought to eliminate is now looking into a fire and explosions at a facility northeast of Houston that is owned by a well-connected French chemical company.

A Houston-area chemical company whose plant caught fire in the wake of Hurricane Harvey defended its response to the storm today, saying no one could have predicted the extent of the flooding.

Federal courts are complicating the Trump administration's decision to step back from Obama-era efforts to incorporate climate change into federal agency decisions.

A worker at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was exposed to a small amount of radiation while dismantling tanks during a routine safety check today, according to the plant operator.

The strongest earthquake to shake Mexico in a century hit late last night, killing at least 32 people.

Nevada is backtracking on a deal to list a toxic mine as a priority U.S. Superfund site.

Monsanto Co. filed a petition yesterday urging Arkansas officials to reject a proposed deadline for banning the herbicide dicamba.

Toxins are leaching from illegal California marijuana farms into waterways that flow into the state water supply.

As the Oroville Dam spillway crumbled, leading to the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents in areas downstream, California dam officials couldn't see. It was too dark.

A federal judge yesterday blocked work on a $2.1 billion flood diversion project planned by the Army Corps of Engineers along the Red River on the Minnesota-North Dakota border.

With a key enforcement deadline only three weeks away, a broad swath of business groups are renewing their push for regulatory relief from U.S. EPA's 2015 ground-level ozone standard.

Gains in U.S. EPA employees' job satisfaction came to an end this year.

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