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If you work in an area with poor air quality, your job performance is likely to suffer.

A new study suggests that neonicotinoids, the most commonly used class of insecticides in the world, can cause migrating songbirds to lose their sense of direction.

U.S. EPA's efforts to curb the use of a chemical long used in household products and military firefighting foam have reduced the number of underweight births in the United States, according to a new study.

A Belgian company has launched the first ever hydrogen-powered commercial ship, a major step toward lowering emissions in the world shipping industry.

The legal dispute between Uber Technologies Inc. and Alphabet Inc. took a new turn yesterday.

A 25-year-old man shot by U.S. Park Police died Monday after spending 10 days on life support due to brain damage, his family said.

A Washington state energy panel yesterday called on Gov. Jay Inslee (D) to reject a proposed oil terminal along the Columbia River.

Environmentalists yesterday sued the Trump administration for greenlighting a controversial plan to pump water out of California's Mojave Desert.

The National Academy of Sciences is pushing back on a $10 million lawsuit from a Stanford University professor who says the organization defamed him by publishing a paper critical of his research on renewable energy.

An invasive species in Florida may be helping an endangered bird rebound after years of dwindling numbers, researchers say.

The long-imperiled bighorn sheep herd in Zion National Park is now booming, but that means some of the animals will have to be moved somewhere else.

Human consumption is the main reason the Great Salt Lake is vanishing, a recent study found.

The United States and Canada have not done enough to fight the pollution filling the Great Lakes, an advisory agency said yesterday.

After Hurricane Maria, the Federal Emergency Management Agency paid a new Florida company, Bronze Star LLC, more than $30 million in contracts for emergency tarps and plastic sheeting for damaged homes and repairs in Puerto Rico.

Want to film some cute marine mammals? Get a permit!

Thomas Kean, Republican governor of New Jersey from 1982 to 1990, called on President Trump to fire U.S. EPA chief Scott Pruitt in an op-ed yesterday in The New York Times.

As the Obama administration in September 2014 was promoting a proposed rule that would spell out what wetlands and waterways got Clean Water Act protection, U.S. EPA was lining up 20 environmental and health groups to use a new social media tool, Thunderclap, to spread the word.

Former coal executive Don Blankenship filed his paperwork yesterday to run for Senate in West Virginia, local television station WCHS reported.

Portraying himself as an energetic leader who has lived the American dream, AccuWeather CEO Barry Myers testified today that he's ready to make NOAA "second to none," rejecting criticism that he lacks scientific qualifications to head the federal agency.

The next big threat to utilities and the grid may be a Federal Communications Commission proposal you've never heard of.

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