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The federal government will revisit a health report on Michigan's Wurtsmith Air Force Base as lawmakers and veterans press for more expansive investigations into toxic chemical exposure at the base.

The Nature Conservancy has transferred the largest island of the Susie Islands archipelago off Minnesota's North Shore back to the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.

U.S. EPA hopes to allow the use next year of a popular herbicide linked to crop damage, but with additional rules, an agency official said yesterday.

A landfill has been illegally spewing "garbage juice" into a Seattle-area creek for years, according to a lawsuit filed by an environmental group.

A grass fire burned 100 to 150 acres yesterday at a California test facility run by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

U.S. EPA is consolidating and closing research labs, prompting criticism as the agency works to respond to disasters like Hurricane Harvey.

A consortium of 400 companies unveiled a plan today to reduce food waste by simplifying the labels on food packaging.

More than 120 birds were killed at an oil sands mine in Alberta, the Alberta Energy Regulator said yesterday.

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Neil Chatterjee presided over his first open commission meeting this morning, and the agency's first in eight months, now that the panel has regained a quorum.

Leonardo DiCaprio's eco-focused foundation has given over $20 million this year to more than 100 organizations across the globe, the actor announced yesterday.

The Trump administration has bulldozed rules that might slow construction of a wall promised by President Trump on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Police arrested a man Monday who is accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial with a penny.

A little-studied infection has caused major frog die-offs in at least 10 states, according to a study by the U.S. Geological Survey published in the journal Nature.

Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico this morning as a Category 4 storm. At least 11,000 people fled to shelters as the hurricane cut phone and power lines and threatened deadly floods.

EAGLE LAKE, Texas — Hurricane Harvey nearly dealt a death blow to one of the nation's most imperiled species, Attwater's prairie chicken.

The cute but unlovely sounding Sonoyta mud turtle and two other species have now secured federal protection, instigated by the kind of litigation that congressional conservatives hope to curtail.

Bill Goodling, a former 13-term Republican congressman from southern Pennsylvania, died Sunday at age 89.

House Democrats today pressed U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt for information on how he will prepare the nation's most polluted and hazardous sites for the impacts of climate change.

A Californian financier and billionaire with deep financial roots in the oil and gas sector is reportedly footing part of the bill for President Trump's legal fees tied to the investigation into Russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election.

One of the biggest players in California water policy decided yesterday against funding a proposal by Gov. Jerry Brown (D) to revamp the state's main water hub.

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