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Arizona utility regulators are weighing a proposal that would add nuclear power to the state's "clean" energy mandate enacted in 2006.

The Utah Legislature is considering legislation that would restrict local officials from lobbying for public lands protections.

Researchers have discovered antibiotic-resistant pathogens in water and sediment in multiple locations in northern Germany, according to a report yesterday from German broadcaster NDR.

SpaceX yesterday sent the world's most powerful rocket into space carrying an electric sports car.

Engineers in two New York-area commuter train crashes since 2016 had sleep apnea, federal investigators found.

A tsunami alert frightened residents in multiple states on the East and Gulf coasts yesterday morning, but the National Weather Service says it was just a test.

Etsy Inc. has removed artwork made by Native Alaskan artists that uses ivory or other parts from endangered animals, sparking pushback from the artists and Alaska Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan.

Coffee giant Dunkin' Donuts will phase foam cups out of its supply chain by 2020, the company announced today.

A federal appeals court is ordering U.S. EPA to report by May 15 on its progress in making past-due attainment designations for its 2015 ground-level ozone standard.

The Sierra Club is appealing U.S. EPA's recent rejection of an administrative challenge to a Utah power plant's operating permit, a decision that the agency also used to announce a national change in its interpretation of a key tenet of the Clean Air Act.

Ten states that oppose the Obama-era Clean Water Rule intensified their efforts yesterday to win an injunction on the contentious policy from a district court.

The marbled crawfish is a common species these days, but around a quarter-century ago, it didn't exist.

The Bureau of Land Management has launched an investigation into the deaths of five wild horses found shot in the southern Wyoming desert.

The Fish and Wildlife Service is quietly weighing whether to remove Florida's Key deer from the endangered species list.

Patagonia is escalating its political and civic activism with a new program unveiled today that could continue to pit the famed outdoor clothing company against congressional Republicans and the Trump administration's Interior Department.

Former Rep. Joe Knollenberg of Michigan, who served on the House Appropriations Committee, died yesterday at age 84.

A group of Senate Democrats are officially requesting that U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt recuse himself from all aspects of repealing and replacing the Clean Power Plan, former President Obama's signature climate rule.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted 11-10 along party lines today to send Andrew Wheeler, President Trump's pick for U.S. EPA deputy administrator, to the floor.