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Democratic National Committee CEO Jess O'Connell will leave her post after less than a year.

The Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign will have a new leader next month.

Three women have accused the CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, one of the country's largest animal charities, of sexual harassment.

Jeremy Barnum, who joined the National Park Service in 2015 as a public affairs specialist, today was named the agency's chief spokesman and chief of public affairs.

Attorneys for a Northern California landowner facing a possible $2.8 million penalty for wetland destruction tried last summer to enlist U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to help reduce their client's penalty.

Former astronaut James F. Reilly II hinted at an upcoming career change last June 6, well before his nomination to head the U.S. Geological Survey.

Scott Pruitt, in an interview taped a year before he was asked to lead U.S. EPA, blasted then-presidential candidate Donald Trump as a dangerous threat to the Constitution.

Senate Democrats and U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt squared off in a contentious hearing this morning.

Over 50 campaigners and celebrities have written a letter asking U.K. Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Michael Gove to list lobsters and crabs as sentient organisms under a new animal welfare bill.

Hong Kong lawmakers today voted to ban ivory sales to help prevent the slaughter of elephants.

New Jersey Transit has ceased putting federally required safety technology in trains as software problems keep trains off the tracks, causing crowding and canceled trips.

Billionaire inventor Elon Musk's flamethrower gig is coming under fire from a California lawmaker.

The Navy will take another look at the potentially toxic soils in California's former Hunters Point shipyard after discovering reoccurring fraudulent manipulation or falsification of testing data.

Environmental groups are calling on U.S. EPA's internal watchdog to investigate the agency's inaction on a report of hazardous waste violations at the Torrance refinery in California.

A pricey plan would help fix a Florida county's sewage issues and clean up the cooling canals at the Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station at the same time.

An Amtrak worker fired after a fatal 2016 crash has filed suit against the National Transportation Safety Board and his former union, arguing that a white foreman who was also involved kept his job.

An Illinois environmental group is formally threatening to sue Dynegy Inc. over coal ash contamination that's allegedly leaching into a tributary of the Vermilion River.

The Trump administration is facing another lawsuit over U.S. EPA's decision to push back the start date for an Obama-era rule curbing toxic wastewater discharges from power plants.

A coal company is using last week's Supreme Court's decision on the Clean Water Rule to revive a lawsuit over black lung claims.

After years of excavation and analysis, scientists announced today that they have uncovered the biggest and most diverse assemblage of dinosaur fossils in the Mid-Atlantic region.

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