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A bill to tighten dam inspection standards headed to California's governor yesterday after unanimously passing the Assembly.

Lissa Lucas, a little-known Democratic candidate for a West Virginia Statehouse seat, was carried from a hearing over the weekend after she read a list of fossil fuel donations to lawmakers on the panel.

Downtown St. Louis will offer free rides in electric cabs beginning this week as part of a pilot project to rejuvenate the city's core.

A nearly invisible form of petroleum has started contaminating Asia's most valuable fisheries after an Iranian oil tanker sank in the East China Sea last month.

Under a seven-decade-old law, U.S. EPA is supposed to closely monitor states' regulation of agricultural chemicals used to kill insects and weeds.

As polar ice continues to thaw, a tanker carrying liquefied natural gas became the first commercial ship to traverse the northern Arctic sea route in the winter last month.

American Electric Power Co. received a setback yesterday to its plan for the largest-ever U.S. wind farm.

An appeals court yesterday upheld a $225 million pollution settlement between New Jersey and Exxon Mobil Corp., in a blow to environmentalists who were hoping to extract more money from the company.

U.S. EPA is moving to comply with a federal judge's ruling last week on a lawsuit brought by Connecticut, albeit not precisely how the state wanted.

A federal judge rejected yesterday most of a U.S. EPA contractor's bid to dismiss lawsuits over the Gold King abandoned mine spill.

A swamp rodent that can weigh up to 20 pounds is wreaking havoc on some of California's ecosystems.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a fiery helicopter crash in the Grand Canyon this weekend that killed three people and severely injured four.

After a year of less snowfall, Yosemite's famous "firefall" may disappoint tourists.

Secretary Ryan Zinke is leaving American Indian consultation on the Interior Department's reorganization in the hands of tribes.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is working on analyzing President Trump's infrastructure package, Chairman Kevin McIntyre said this morning.

Faster contracting and permitting and fewer requests for industry information are all part of U.S. EPA's long-anticipated "reform plan."

The Bureau of Land Management's $1 billion fiscal 2019 budget request once again proposes to reduce growing herds of wild horses and burros by allowing animals to easily be transferred to other government agencies and, in cases involving older, injured or sick animals, to be euthanized.

U.S. EPA's internal watchdog's call for more funds went unheeded.

President Trump wants to get rid of 355 jobs at the National Weather Service, part of his plan to cut NOAA's budget by nearly 20 percent next fiscal year.

New federal protections for an obscure mussel help illuminate the potential significance and complications of the Trump administration's proposed large cut in funding for Endangered Species Act listings.

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