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Almost 40 percent of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries met water quality standards for clarity, dissolved oxygen and algal growth for the last three years, according to a preliminary report released yesterday by an intergovernmental cleanup program.

A controversial proposal to expand Colorado's largest coal mine this week took one step forward with a green light from the Forest Service.

Attention, beer drinkers: There's a good chance your beverage of choice will soon be made with wind or solar power.

U.S. EPA has initiated the process for replacing the Clean Power Plan, former President Obama's signature climate regulation.

U.S. EPA is mulling the repeal of guidelines to curb smog-forming emissions from existing oil and gas operations, potentially signaling the latest in a series of steps that would benefit fossil fuel producers.

The Department of Energy announced a major reorganization this morning, including the split of its chief science and energy divisions.

A memorandum written by the Bureau of Land Management's former chief agent in charge of the investigation of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy alleges federal agents purposely withheld evidence they felt could help attorneys defending Bundy and his son Ammon Bundy in their criminal trial.

U.S. EPA has signed a hefty contract with a Republican-run public affairs firm to keep track of its press coverage.

The Interior Department's stunning new employee survey reveals depths of cynicism, distrust and other systemic woes that go beyond the allegedly widespread harassment and discrimination.

A slow-moving tropical storm in the Philippines has caused more than 30 deaths due mostly to floods and landslides, officials said yesterday.

China intends to unveil a comprehensive system by 2020 that requires polluters to fix environmental damage or pay compensation, the Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday.

Recreational marijuana sales begin in California on Jan. 1. But the product on the shelves will have been grown without regulatory oversight, meaning pesticides, molds or other contaminants could be present.

Nevada is holding an unusual bighorn sheep hunt this week at the Nevada Test and Training Range, where the public usually isn't allowed.

A bill package winding through the Michigan Legislature would allow private-sector polluters to regulate themselves with little input from affected communities, environmentalists say.

An abrupt power outage yesterday at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, one of the world's busiest airports, grounded over 1,000 flights right before the holiday travel season.

Five Oklahoma tribes are opposing planned bioterrorism drills next year by the Department of Homeland Security.

Six former employees have filed suit against a manufacturer of wind turbine blades, saying they were injured by chemical exposure at an Iowa factory.

At least six people were killed and many more injured this morning when an Amtrak train derailed and fell off an overpass onto a freeway in Pierce County, Wash.