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A special prosecutor for the Flint water crisis said yesterday that four Michigan environmental regulators failed to prevent lead contamination from harming residents in 2014 after the city switched its water source to the Flint River.

Many of the nation's rivers and streams have levels of salt that are becoming dangerous, according to a study published yesterday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

An Iranian oil tanker off the coast of China burned for the third straight day, with wind, waves and tainted air frustrating efforts to extinguish the fire and locate 31 missing crew members.

A pipeline in Minnesota owned by Magellan Midstream Partners LP spilled about 500 barrels of gasoline yesterday.

Because the sex of green sea turtles depends on the temperature outside their eggs, climate change is threatening the turtles' future.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine are launching an initiative to better spread their information about global warming.

Police in Singapore have arrested 17 men in connection with an oil theft at Royal Dutch Shell PLC's largest refinery.

A panel of appeals judges appeared hesitant yesterday to revive an Arch Coal Inc. lawsuit challenging a federal bulletin that it says put the company on the hook for more than $10 million in black lung claims.

A watchdog group filed suit today against the Office of Management and Budget for the public comments the agency received on reorganizing the federal government.

To survive cold winters, alligators allow their bodies to be frozen in place with their noses and large teeth protruding from the ice.

South African authorities are turning to a surprising source for help with catching poachers: geneticists.

Ammon Bundy's lawyer Marcus Mumford yesterday told a judge he won't practice in Oregon federal court again, giving up his standing.

Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro yesterday scheduled a Feb. 26 trial for the third and final group of defendants charged in the 2014 armed standoff with the Bureau of Land Management near Bunkerville, Nev.

Federal biodiesel mandates are destroying forests half a world away, according to an environmental group that sent investigators to soybean fields in Argentina last summer.

Heather Zichal, a former top White House aide to President Obama, has joined the Nature Conservancy as managing director of corporate engagement.

The Mexican gray wolf would lose its Endangered Species Act protection under a new bill with a tactical edge.

Two Senate Democrats, citing impartiality concerns and other questions about recently named members of U.S. EPA advisory panels, asked the agency today to hand over a wide range of documents related to their appointments.

U.S. EPA's internal watchdog plans to review Administrator Scott Pruitt's use of a special hiring authority to fill top political jobs at the agency.

The Interior Department will now funnel certain grants through a political screening intended to ensure the federal dollars "better align" with the administration's "priorities," according to a newly revealed memo.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission dealt what some called a resounding defeat to Energy Secretary Rick Perry yesterday, and in taking their victory lap, opponents have directed strong criticism at the man in charge of the Department of Energy.

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