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A coalition of public health and environmental groups has sued U.S. EPA over its two-months-overdue attainment designations for the 2015 ground-level ozone standard.

The National Hurricane Center has released storm names for the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season.

For most of Instagram's short history, users could strike "Instagram gold" — and generate hundreds of likes and comments — by posting cute photos of wildlife or selfies with zoo animals.

Fishermen are sounding the alarm about a proposed wind farm off the coast of Montauk, N.Y.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature announced today that it changed its listing for the Irrawaddy dolphin and finless porpoise from "vulnerable" to "endangered."

The company that owns the Conowingo Dam, which has been holding back sediment from the Chesapeake Bay for years, could continue to make a profit while stepping up its environmental mitigation efforts, said a report released this morning.

The white-tailed prairie dog does not deserve federal Endangered Species Act protection, according to a new Fish and Wildlife Service determination that burrows into some old conflicts.

A former Marine who pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the 2016 armed standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge said yesterday that he'll wear his prison sentence as a "badge of honor."

Faced with sexual harassment accusations and pressure from colleagues, Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers said today he would step down.

House Republicans are still debating plans for a continuing resolution to fund the federal government beyond Friday.

The White House last night appointed one of President Trump's former campaign advisers to a trade panel that could influence his upcoming decision on solar tariffs.

The prolonged and unexplained delay in the swearing-in of the attorney picked by President Trump to lead the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has the Washington rumor mill grinding, with FERC facing two important deadlines in the next week.

Utah lawmakers today unveiled details of their legislation that would ensure President Trump's reductions to two national monuments in their state aren't reversed in the future.

SALT LAKE CITY — Five Native American tribes who lobbied to create Bears Ears National Monument in Utah expressed anger at President Trump's decree yesterday removing more than 1.1 million acres from protected status, calling it a "slap in the face."

Chinese firms have paid 48 percent more this year for violating environmental regulations than they did a year earlier, China's environment ministry said today.

After an Associated Press investigation, India's government has announced plans to end imports of a dirty byproduct of oil and gas operations called petroleum coke.

The New York City Housing Authority's chairwoman faced four hours of questioning at a City Council hearing yesterday over a halt in lead paint inspections and the city's failure to notify tenants.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials yesterday approved a conservation plan for building a strip mall in one of the rarest forests on Earth.

Overuse of antibiotics in farming can potentially make more people resistant to life-saving drugs and put millions of lives at risk, according to a new U.N. Environment Programme report.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency told employees they may have to return some of their overtime pay after working in 2017's record-setting natural disasters.

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