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At least eight sick sea lions have been found on Oregon beaches in the last month, according to scientists. The sea lions are part of the largest outbreak in seven years of leptospirosis, a bacterial infection caused by Leptospira that can lead the animals to strand themselves on the shore.

Environmentalists and state Democrats are pushing Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) to impose tougher water pollution rules for coal-fired power plants after the Trump administration delayed Obama-era rules to curb heavy metal discharges.

A team of researchers yesterday unveiled a nearly $15 million project to plant trees in four neighborhoods in Louisville, Ky., in an attempt to study their effect on human health.

Water samples from the Chesapeake Bay this summer showed fewer "dead zones," areas where oxygen levels are dangerously low.

Oversight failures by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality helped cause the Flint water crisis, according to a report released this week by U.S. EPA.

October is normally harvest time at Errol John Dietze's Texas pecan orchard, but Hurricane Harvey tore down branches and stripped his trees bare.

The United States signed a deal with Denmark yesterday to work together more on offshore wind energy, a relief to Europe's biggest green energy producers.

Kobe Steel Ltd., the Japanese manufacturer embroiled in a scandal over falsified quality data, sent products with tampered data to a second nuclear company.

Unless global carbon emissions from coal-fired plants are virtually eliminated by 2050, coastal communities could be devastated by extreme sea-level rise before the end of the century, according to new research.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has stayed U.S. EPA emission rules for trailers, which the Trump administration is seeking to roll back.

Environmentalists yesterday launched a new public records lawsuit over U.S. EPA's failure to furnish ethics and scheduling documents for Administrator Scott Pruitt.

A sea otter rescued after being poisoned by toxins from an algae bloom was released back into the wild this week, part of a growing effort to help the protected marine animals at Sausalito's Marine Mammal Center in California.

A motorcycle crash sparked a fast-moving wildfire yesterday in California's Cleveland National Forest.

Laura Joss, formerly the head of the National Park Service's West Coast office, will take over the top role at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

Scientists say strong winds and unusually warm weather have prevented tens of thousands of monarch butterflies from migrating south, potentially spelling their demise.

It's been five years since Superstorm Sandy, and experts say the U.S. has not learned its lesson about the dangers of living along coastlines.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is under pressure from 14 senators to drop his plan to more than double peak-season entry fees at 17 popular national parks in 2018.

The top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee along with 10 others have signed onto a bill to protect minority and vulnerable communities from disproportionate environmental degradation.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is delaying his committee's vote on President Trump's nominees to lead the federal government's personnel office.

President Trump called billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer "wacky & totally unhinged" on Twitter today, after Steyer debuted an ad calling for Trump's impeachment.

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