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Arkansas officials have advanced a plan to ban farmers from using the controversial herbicide dicamba next summer, likely setting up a legal battle between the state and Monsanto Co., the maker of the chemical.

DowDuPont Inc. has turned on its massive new ethylene and plastics operation in Freeport, Texas, the company said yesterday.

The chemicals used to mitigate the Deepwater Horizon oil spill sickened the workers who responded to the disaster, a new federal study confirmed.

The National Nuclear Security Administration's uranium program is at risk of surpassing its budget by as much as $1 billion due to improper management, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.

Unauthorized landfills in Colorado have been burying low-level radioactive waste from the state's booming oil and gas industry, state health officials said this week.

A Japanese power plant engineer this week backed a controversial coal export terminal proposal in Washington state to supply fuel for helping replace nuclear power since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi meltdown.

A Michigan official said yesterday that he knew about bacteria in the Flint, Mich., water supply a year before state officials announced an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease.

The Navajo Nation said it will sue the Trump administration if it tries to shrink Bears Ears National Monument in Utah.

Environmental groups are firing back at U.S. EPA's eleventh-hour push to indefinitely freeze litigation over the agency's 2015 coal ash regulations, saying in a new court filing that any such open-ended delay would leave public health at risk.

Rancher Cliven Bundy is seeking to fire his attorney Bret Whipple less than three weeks before he is set to face trial on charges stemming from his 2014 armed standoff with federal agents near Bunkerville, Nev.

A slow-motion legal collision between the former Yosemite National Park concessionaire and the Justice Department could be keeping attorneys busy for a long time to come.

Hurricane Irma knocked over a tree that was once sent into space to orbit the moon and later planted at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.

Nine elephants were electrocuted by a fallen power line near water in eastern Botswana, according to officials.

The remains of Hurricane Maria continued to deluge Puerto Rico yesterday, bringing up to 3 feet of rain in some places.

Autonomous, mini-submarines are daring to face down fierce winds and dangerous waves this hurricane season to send real-time data back to the states.

Since January, Republicans have been in control of the White House and Congress and added a conservative justice to the Supreme Court, but one independent agency — the Consumer Product Safety Commission — has remained stubbornly Democratic.

On paper, American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Jack Gerard is a Washington lobbyist straight from central casting.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is planning to release his public calendar, long sought by his critics on Capitol Hill and in the environmental movement.

The Democrats' top watchdog in the House has requested a financial regulator's file on a former banker who is now advising U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.

Environmentalists won a major battle this week in a long legal war over the Clinton administration rule that limited road construction and logging in national forests.

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