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The bald eagle couple dubbed Mr. President and First Lady laid their first egg of 2018 on Sunday in Washington, according to eagle camera footage.

As plastic chokes the Great Salt Lake in Utah — a hub for migratory birds — a new floating "trash boom" could help.

A California man's belief that the Earth is shaped like a disk may fall flat, but he did launch himself 1,875 feet above the Mojave Desert in a steam-powered rocket built in a garage.

Washington state has banned Atlantic salmon farming eight months after 100,000 of the nonnative fish escaped their pens at one farm and swam into the Pacific Ocean.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) yesterday ordered Uber Technologies Inc. to stop testing self-driving cars on public roads in the state.

Potentially toxic algae has covered massive areas of Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana.

Part of a 50-acre Superfund site in Pennsylvania will be cleaned up and prepared to become high-density housing under a $1.8 million agreement between U.S. EPA and Renaissance Land Associates announced yesterday.

An energy lawyer and former champion on the game show "Jeopardy!" is now serving as a senior adviser at the Energy Department.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is making subtle but important changes to the way it allows people and organizations to formally take part in its natural gas pipeline reviews.

Nearly 7 in 10 Americans support maintaining Obama-era fuel economy standards, according to poll results released today.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine are urging the federal government to improve how it measures, monitors and inventories methane, the second most prevalent greenhouse gas.

XTO Energy Inc. will pay a $320,000 fine and upgrade pollution controls at its oil and gas operations on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota's Bakken region under a proposed consent decree announced yesterday.

A surprising foe is threatening the world's largest albatross colony: the common house mouse.

Vandals broke into an old iron mine in Michigan's Upper Peninsula where scientists are studying hibernating bats threatened by white-nose syndrome.

Greenpeace has left the Forest Stewardship Council, the biggest global organization that certifies sustainable wood.

The Fish and Wildlife Service will open Colorado's Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge to the public this summer, over the protests of groups seeking to keep the refuge — which surrounds a shuttered nuclear weapons production facility — closed.

Bidding on federal oil and gas leases in Wyoming wrapped up late last week after bringing in about $20 million, including a number of expensive bids in the Powder River Basin. The state will get about half the money.

Florida is asking the Army Corps of Engineers for permission to build a new reservoir in the Everglades to help combat algae blooms on the state's east and west coasts.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke unveiled his newest panel of policy gurus yesterday, tapping a host of industry representatives to advise his department on the growth of public-private partnerships to oversee the federal estate.

Meghan Pennington, formerly communications director for Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), has joined Hamilton Place Strategies LLC.

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