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U.S. EPA is defending the hiring of Michael Dourson, the industry-tied toxicologist picked by President Trump to lead the agency's chemical safety program, as common practice for top nominees awaiting Senate confirmation.

Officials in Queensland, Australia, have denounced a group of men playing in a crocodile trap as "idiots."

The airport in Alaska's northernmost city had a problem this week unique to the Arctic Circle: a bearded seal blocking the runway.

A New York law signed yesterday gives the state environmental agency more authority to consider environmental and waterfront impacts of transporting petroleum on waterways like the Hudson River. This includes the power to ban tanker storage in some areas.

Officials still do not know what caused a massive blaze at an industrial warehouse in Parkersburg, W.Va. — which continues to burn — or how the burned materials might affect local air quality.

The rise of self-driving cars, along with ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft, may deal serious damage to the self-storage sector.

Leaders of a movement to unionize Tesla Inc. workers marched on the electric carmaker's Fremont, Calif., plant yesterday to protest hundreds of firings this month.

One of the military's most pressing toxic waste problems was in open air this week.

U.S. EPA is leaving hazardous pollutant emissions standards for a handful of large publicly owned sewage treatment plants unchanged following a legally required risk and technology review.

Dandelions could contain the secret to cleaning up the byproducts of drilling in Canada's oil sands.

Who owns a handmade mile-marker post given to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian? A Standing Rock Sioux official says the post from a Dakota Access pipeline protest campsite was stolen.

One of two missing crew members was found dead Monday after an oil barge fire off the coast of Port Aransas, Texas, last week. The other worker is still missing.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court yesterday threw out a $100 fee state lawmakers imposed on electric vehicles this spring.

When Jane Goodall started ascribing personalities to chimpanzees 60 years ago in what's now Tanzania, she was scorned by scientists who said she was anthropomorphizing and inventing traits for the animals she studied.

Using genetic engineering, Chinese scientists have created a new pig with about 24 percent less body fat.

Although elephant populations are still on the decline, poaching in Africa has fallen for the fifth year in a row, according to experts.

Another North Atlantic right whale has been found dead, according to an animal welfare organization.

A slight majority of Utahans think the new Bears Ears National Monument is too large, but more than half are against breaking up Grand Staircase-Escalante into smaller monuments, according to a new poll.