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Researchers discounted testing small headwater streams for data on nutrients trends for a long time. The waters were too variable, they thought.

Scientists studying the California spotted owl are trying to figure out which calamity is worse for the rare birds: burning trees or cutting them down after a fire.

Count the Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit as collateral damage in the event of a government shutdown.

Representatives of the remote King Cove, Alaska, region that have lobbied for years to build a gravel road through a wildlife refuge are traveling to Washington, D.C., next week, apparently to participate in a ceremony with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke authorizing a land exchange that would pave the way for the road to be built.

The National Mining Association has brought on a familiar lobbyist to work on clean air and water issues.

Uranium this week became the latest industry to ask President Trump to restrict imports via a once seldomly used law.

Robyn Wilson never dreamed she'd be locked in a court fight with U.S. EPA.

The U.S. EPA career staffer who oversees the Superfund program yesterday defended an Obama-era climate change study that the Trump administration has disavowed.

U.S. EPA is embarking on a potentially open-ended rewrite of its 2017 update to regional haze regulations, injecting fresh uncertainty into a program already plagued by years of delays and legal fights.

Waters off Florida's coast are still under consideration for potential offshore drilling despite Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's tweet last week saying the state was off the table, a top department official testified this morning before a House Natural Resources subcommittee.

The odds for a government shutdown appear to be growing, as Capitol Hill awaits the outcome of a yet-to-be-scheduled Senate vote on a one-month continuing resolution that would keep the lights on at federal agencies after midnight tonight.

Federal agencies have begun preparations for a possible government shutdown tonight if Congress can't reach an accord before midnight.

The most active volcano in the Philippines exploded today, prompting officials to warn of an imminent full-blown eruption.

Latin America's largest dump closed over the weekend as Brazil tries to modernize its waste removal.

Utah Lake suffers from annual toxic algae blooms, but one man wants to revitalize the shallow lake with housing for half a million people.

New York City transit officials may have exaggerated the number of subway delays that could be attributed to power issues.

The Allegheny River and some of its tributaries contain high levels of radium downstream from facilities that treat wastewater from conventional gas drilling operations, a new study finds.

U.S. EPA is seeking another delay in complying with an April 2017 court order to enforce pollution reporting rules on animal feeding operations.

Operations at two units of FirstEnergy Corp.'s largest coal-fired power plant have come to a halt as the company surveys the damage caused by a fire earlier this month.

Most coal states lost mining jobs in 2017, despite modest employment gains in the industry overall, according to preliminary data obtained by Reuters.

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