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A Washington county has been fined $361,000 after its treatment plant failed, contaminating the Puget Sound with wastewater.

Limitations in the autopilot feature on Tesla Inc.'s Model S sedan played a "major role" in a fatal crash last year, according to federal officials.

A Salt Lake City man is accused of intentionally starting three August wildfires in central Oregon.

A Philadelphia judge threw out criminal charges yesterday against the engineer of an Amtrak train involved in a fatal 2015 accident.

Environmentalists today launched a legal challenge against the Trump administration over its plans to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Trump administration is urging the Supreme Court to uphold a law that barred a landowner from proceeding with a lawsuit over a 147-acre tract in Michigan that the government is holding in trust for a Native American tribe.

With wildfire closing in on one of Washington state's few habitats for endangered pygmy rabbits earlier this summer, scientists and firefighters rushed to save the animals. But it wasn't easy.

City officials in Berlin say they have caught more than 3,000 American crawfish in a city park.

A powerful storm battered Death Valley National Park on Monday night, with gusts of wind damaging roofs and launching dumpsters down a road.

The annual roundup at the National Bison Range has been put on hold due to wildfire smoke and the potential for new blazes in western Montana.

Hurricane Irma killed dozens of people and destroyed property across swaths of the Caribbean, but it also did major damage to local ecosystems.

Damage to the Florida Reef Tract could have weakened the buffer it provides against storms, according to researchers.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's (R) office is suing several Houston-area businesses over allegations of price gouging after Hurricane Harvey.

Florida farmers and fruit growers have just started to assess the damage caused by Hurricane Irma, but they already say it will be significant.

HOUSTON — Hurricane Harvey's winds and floodwaters dealt Texas' natural areas a beating, and two weeks later officials are still trying to get a grip on the scale of the damage and costs for cleanups and repairs.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) and his wife were hospitalized after a car crash yesterday morning, his office said.

The House Natural Resources Committee today approved on a 22-13 vote a wide-ranging sportsmen's measure that among other steps would make it easier to buy silencers for firearms.

The head of the country's largest fossil fuel trade association today said the recent onslaught of hurricanes should not impede the Trump administration's deregulatory agenda and endorsed "transparent" debate on climate policy.

The Bureau of Land Management held a contentious oil and gas lease sale in northwest Utah yesterday despite unresolved concerns that energy development in the region could harm an isolated population of greater sage grouse that the agency concedes is struggling.

With Western wildfires raging, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke yesterday directed federal land managers to "think about fire in a new and aggressive way," and said agencies and bureaus should focus on speeding the thinning of dead trees and other forest fuel.

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