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Line items in President Trump's long-awaited infrastructure plan appear to propose more money and policy changes for cleaning up toxic old mines.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's security detail reported protesters who disrupted one of his speeches as a potential threat, sparking an investigation by the agency's internal watchdog.

The Supreme Court's unanimous decision yesterday in a jurisdictional fight over the Clean Water Rule has spurred a dash by the Trump administration to finalize its delay of the 2015 regulation and a push by industry groups for a legislative fix. Experts see chaos ahead.

A remote indigenous group living in the Peruvian section of the Amazon rainforest has been plagued for years by a mysterious mercury poisoning epidemic, according to an unreleased government report from 2015 and 2017 viewed by the London Guardian.

The Alps are equipped to handle snow, but after thaws and subsequent heavy rainfall, avalanches have forced evacuations and altered travel.

After a false alarm about a tsunami warning for the Alaskan coast, experts say scientific models used to predict tsunamis have their limitations.

A solar developer has sued Montana regulators over their handling of solar facilities, the third such lawsuit against the state Public Service Commission in a month.

Washington state lawmakers are considering major restrictions on chemicals used in firefighting foam that have been found in drinking water supplies nationwide.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) will soon have a $282 million water quality bill on her desk.

Officials have found the body of a man who fell into a pipe that carries raw water to a treatment plant outside Sacramento, Calif.

Americans are gradually opening up to the idea of self-driving cars, according to a recent survey.

A federal safety board will launch its second investigation into a crash involving a Tesla Inc. electric vehicle using Autopilot technology.

Budweiser said its U.S. brewing operations are now entirely powered by renewable electricity.

Energy Fuels Inc. yesterday named a new chief executive to oversee what has rapidly become one of the nation's top uranium companies.

A unit of Duke Energy Corp. announced yesterday it will install technology to keep its turbines from killing golden eagles and other migratory birds at a Wyoming wind farm.

Citing concerns about their sovereign interests, a coalition of states is backing an Arizona municipal power company in its attempt to fight off an antitrust lawsuit by SolarCity Corp. over installation fees for rooftop solar.

Scientists used to think there was only one population left of the rare red handfish. But divers in Tasmania have found another population, doubling the known number of individuals and increasing hope of finding more.

Scientists have created a world registry of invasive species that is expected to be used alongside the "red list" of endangered species to fight extinctions.

Conservation-minded Maine lobstermen prevented their industry's decline in the face of a warming ocean, according to a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

With the average age of farmers and ranchers across the nation continuing to tick up, one advocacy group wants to prepare its members to deal with an inevitable "silver wave" that could see hundreds of thousands of acres change hands in the next decade.

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