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California biologists caught a Sierra Nevada red fox last month for the first time in a decade. Then they caught another.

A new law in Washington state will make it easier for thousands of workers on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation to receive workers' compensation by creating a legal presumption that workers' illnesses are caused by the chemicals that pollute the site.

Water managers in South Florida yesterday greenlighted a $1.4 billion reservoir aimed at fighting coastal pollution and delivering clean water to the Everglades.

"Aseptic cartons" — often associated with juice boxes — are rising in popularity. They have several environmental upsides but one big problem: They are hard to recycle.

Home Depot Inc. will pay $27.84 million to settle charges by California that it illegally dumped hazardous waste and discarded customer records without concealing people's identities, state Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) announced yesterday.

An outside consultant found that the recent derailment of a Metro train in Washington was caused by rust on the underside of a steel rail that couldn't be seen with visual inspection or ultrasonic scanning technology, Metro officials said at a board meeting yesterday.

A Texas oil company is accused of defrauding investors out of $950,000, with at least $196,000 of investor proceeds spent on things like retail and entertainment, according to a complaint filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Scientists have created the first-ever rechargeable proton battery, an environmentally friendly option for energy storage.

A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists are teaming up with a private company with hopes of putting a fusion power reactor on the grid in 15 years.

A coalition of environmental groups has issued new legal challenges to the Atlantic Coast pipeline, looking to halt construction on the contentious natural gas project.

In a significant win for Entergy Corp., a federal appeals court has stayed implementation of stricter sulfur dioxide emissions requirements for several Arkansas coal-fired power plants laid out in an Obama-era regional haze reduction plan.

A refining group's quest to revive its complaint over a surcharge imposed by one of the nation's largest freight rail networks for transporting crude oil may have come up against an impenetrable wall: Congress.

Australian scientists developed a smartphone app to help citizen scientists record frog calls, but instead they're getting an awful lot of cicadas, dogs and even people.

A tiny, highly destructive beetle that infests grains and seeds with a trail of decaying body parts and hair has been discovered by customs officials at two airports in the Washington, D.C., area.

As climate change, human intervention and drought make the water warmer in Northern California, a $100 million project is helping endangered fish get to a cooler place where they're more likely to thrive.

Environmentalists yesterday made good on a promise to sue the Trump administration over its U-turn on protecting the Pacific walrus under the Endangered Species Act.

The Interior Department is undertaking a detailed analysis of a new large-scale solar power project in a Southern California renewable energy zone the Trump administration has targeted for increased development.

There is now one place to file your Freedom of Information Act request.

HOUSTON — Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski fears the Trump administration's broad duties on steel and aluminum may add up to half a billion dollars to her state's efforts to sell liquefied natural gas to China.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has tapped Vicki Christiansen, who oversees the Forest Service's state and private forestry programs, as interim chief.

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