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Ranchers in Johannesburg say their new online market for rhino horns will help force poachers out of business.

Owners of a wildlife sanctuary in Miami want their animals back after someone appears to have followed instructions in a fake Craigslist advertisement and taken them.

New Jersey regulators have begun limiting the number of vehicles that can drive across a beach in order to protect threatened shorebirds, but the plan has angered some locals.

Companies are pushing new washing machine products to keep microfibers out of the ocean and out of seafood.

Women who use sprays or other cleaning products at least once a week show a faster decline in lung function over time than women who do not, according to a new study.

Coast Guard members suffered a range of health effects after being exposed to chemical oil dispersants during the cleanup of the BP PLC Deepwater Horizon disaster, according to new studies.

The New Mexico Supreme Court yesterday rejected a challenge to PNM Resources Inc.'s plan to partially shut down a coal-fired power plant.

The U.S. energy storage industry is at a "breakout" moment and is expected to double its market value this year with help from a new federal rule, according to a report released this morning.

The Trump administration's top mine safety regulator today gave a warning to the scofflaws in his former industry: Pay up.

Ohio yesterday sued Monsanto Co., claiming the state is still paying to clean up the polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, the company spewed into rivers and soil for decades.

A Sacramento County judge yesterday declined to temporarily halt the hearings for the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta tunnels project championed by California Gov. Jerry Brown (D).

U.S. EPA has rejected two civil rights complaints brought by residents of a small Alabama town near a massive coal ash landfill.

Federal judges have dismissed a company's lawsuit challenging U.S. EPA's decision to place the Colorado mining district that contains the Gold King abandoned mine on a list of the nation's most hazardous sites.

You're much more likely to be killed by a wasp or a dog than by a snake, spider or shark.

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in Mexico has dropped for a second consecutive year, a government official said yesterday.

State Rep. Mike Noel (R) is sponsoring a bill to name the Utah National Parks Highway after President Trump, a way to thank the president for shrinking Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.

Cass Sunstein, who led the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under President Obama, is wading into the debate surrounding a recent report on the costs and benefits of federal regulations.

A former senior adviser at the Heritage Foundation has landed at the Energy Department.

Donna Shalala, Health and Human Services secretary during the Clinton administration, is jumping into a crowded Democratic primary for Florida's 27th District.

Senate Democrats are raising questions with U.S. EPA about how the agency awarded a contract to sweep Administrator Scott Pruitt's office for surveillance devices.

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