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U.S. EPA's Superfund Task Force kept no internal records of its activities, the agency says, despite producing dozens of recommendations for how to revamp cleanup efforts at some of most polluted places in the United States.

The nation's top nuclear regulator often minimizes safety complaints at nuclear power plants and rejects recommendations from its own experts, according to an investigation by the nonprofit Better Government Association.

The United States plans to tell the World Trade Organization next month that India failed to comply with its ruling on solar energy.

Three companies will pay a combined $4.5 million to settle claims that they contaminated Wisconsin's Sheboygan River.

Steel giant ArcelorMittal SA has agreed to pay a $1.5 million civil penalty and make upgrades to resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations at a Pennsylvania plant.

When hundreds of thousands of Gulf corvinas get together to mate, they can deafen other sea animals with their chorus of mating calls, according to a new study.

Loose ivory regulations in Japan are encouraging illegal exports and hurting efforts to end elephant tusk trafficking, according to a report by the World Wildlife Fund.

Former U.S. Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) is in George Washington University Hospital in Washington after a fall. He is 91 years old.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) will replace former Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), who stepped down earlier this month after facing sexual harassment accusations, as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.

Robert Semple Jr., a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer who led a crusade against mining near Yellowstone National Park in the 1990s, will retire after more than 50 years at The New York Times.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt touted the push to roll back regulations in a recap of this year's work at the agency.

A trade group for the wholesale baking industry is challenging recently updated U.S. EPA emissions regulations for yeast manufacturers.

Dozens of farmers near Wichita, Kan., are learning that cutting down on pesticides can pay.

Senate Democrats and environmental groups today vowed to continue the fight against drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, even as Congress approved it as part of a historic tax reform package passed this week.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is at the center of a controversy over banned words, but it isn't the only federal agency tapering its use of certain science-centered terms in budget proposals sent to the White House.

A federal appeals court is ordering U.S. EPA to spell out its timetable for remaining compliance decisions related to its 2015 ground-level ozone standard.

A federal judge today declared a mistrial in the case of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, after finding that government prosecutors had failed to provide key information to Bundy and his co-defendants.