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Bats have friends perched in high places, which the unique flying mammals may need to survive.

The Commerce Department today is expected to submit a report to the White House assessing the offshore oil and drilling potential in areas containing several protected marine monuments and sanctuaries.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee this morning approved four of President Trump's top U.S. EPA picks, including the controversial nominations of Michael Dourson to lead the chemicals program and Bill Wehrum for air chief.

A $300 million contract a small Montana construction firm won to fix Puerto Rico's storm-damaged electric grid is "alarming," should be scrapped and the bidding process reopened, the mayor of San Juan said yesterday.

Dennis Lee Forsgren, the top political deputy in U.S. EPA's water office, has been given a limited waiver to President Trump's ethics pledge.

An advocacy group and Washington law firm are tossing a lifeline to government scientists who believe their work is being smothered or manipulated for political purposes.

Development on public lands will play a key role in allowing America to "achieve and maintain" energy dominance, according to a leaked draft of the Interior Department's fiscal 2018-22 strategic plan.

The conservative think tank Heartland Institute is suggesting scientists, business leaders and lawyers who are skeptical of mainstream climate science for the climate "red team" U.S. EPA boss Scott Pruitt says he wants to assemble.

The Department of Energy released its long-awaited report today on policies that are ripe for repeal or reform because they hinder energy production.

Thousands of people are being allowed to return to a Vanuatu island nearly one month after it was evacuated as a volcano threatened to erupt.

New Mexico's schools will embrace the widely used Next Generation Science Standards after a proposal to change the state's science education guidelines to omit climate change and evolution sparked a public backlash.

Locals in the Big Sur region of California gathered earlier this month to celebrate the long-awaited reopening of the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge — restoring access to an iconic coastal highway.

Maryland's rate of child lead poisoning fell last year to the lowest level since the state started tracking cases more than 20 years ago, but advocates say there's still work to be done.

A small firm wants to double Delaware's solar energy capacity.

A Food and Drug Administration ban on triclosan in body wash and antibacterial hand soaps took effect in September 2016, but the chemical is still used in many other products, including toothpaste.

New research has found that after U.S. EPA updated its rule on arsenic contamination in drinking water, there were fewer reported cases of lung, bladder and skin cancer among people using public water systems.

Millions of gallons of drinking water in Maywood, Ill., west of Chicago, is lost before it reaches taps, costing residents and businesses almost $1.7 million in 2016. And the town is not alone.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, nearly 60 percent of water samples from private wells in a Texas county tested positive for the bacteria total coliform, according to preliminary data released yesterday.