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The Supreme Court has agreed to take up a petition by the state of Washington that seeks to overturn what it has called a "remarkably unfair" ruling concerning tribal treaty rights.

Heavy hitters and activists have lined up in a fight over Fish and Wildlife Service mitigation policies, showcasing how just a few words can expose very high stakes.

Residents in Japan's central city of Gamagori should not buy blowfish from a local market, officials are warning.

Cape Town in South Africa faces its worst drought in a century.

Noway announced a plan yesterday to phase out all fur farms in the country by 2025, drawing cheers from animal rights activists and criticism from producers.

Buried in muck, a major California coastal highway will stay closed for an additional week after mudslides last week that killed 20 people.

A slow-moving landslide in Washington state will eventually crumble a ridge that towers over dozens of homes and a highway, officials say, possibly within a couple of weeks.

In the coming years, Wyoming will see higher oil tax revenue but lower revenue from coal and natural gas taxes, according to the latest projections from the state's Consensus Revenue Estimating Group.

Yet another effort to restore state control over electricity rates failed in the Virginia General Assembly yesterday.

Contractors at Camp Pendleton in Southern California had been grappling with drinking water contamination long before U.S. EPA inspectors discovered dead animal carcasses floating in the base reservoirs last June.

A sunken Iranian tanker is spilling oil in the East China Sea, and the slicks are spreading fast, Chinese officials announced today.

A Metro train on the Red Line in Washington likely derailed yesterday because of a broken rail, according to a preliminary investigation.

McDonald's Corp. today announced a plan to offer recycling at every one of its restaurants and move to renewable packaging over the next decade.

BP PLC said today that its costs from the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill have increased to $65 billion.

A patent attorney and a former Dallas Cowboys dancer have been hired to boost the Department of Energy's science efforts.

Auto giant General Motors Co. is increasingly leaning on renewable energy for its dozens of facilities around the world. Later this year, wind turbines in Ohio and Illinois will come online, fully powering the company's manufacturing plants in Ohio and Indiana.

The decision last week by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to unanimously reject a Department of Energy proposal to compensate coal and nuclear plants in certain markets upheld the traditional independence of the agency, two commissioners said today.

Johnson & Johnson officials in the 1970s expressed some concern about potential asbestos content in the company's baby powder, according to thousands of pages of internal documents reviewed by the group FairWarning.