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BMW yesterday became the latest automaker to face a lawsuit from U.S. drivers over allegations of installing emissions-cheating software.

The nation's worst coal ash spill led to 180 previously undisclosed cases of sick or dying workers, a new lawsuit claims.

A federal court yesterday threw out a suit by Georgetown University and local neighborhood associations that challenged flight paths for planes departing from a D.C.-area airport.

Brown bear mothers in Sweden are staying with their cubs longer, and a study ties the change to a law that protects family groups from hunters.

A plan to keep invasive Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes using painful, noisy bubbles took first place yesterday in a competition sponsored by Michigan.

A fire at Joshua Tree National Park in California late Monday damaged the Oasis of Mara, a historic site settled by Native Americans who planted 29 palm trees.

Sea-level rise will affect about 90 percent of the world's coastal freshwater turtle species by 2100, new research found.

Environmental groups are taking their campaign to force U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt from office to a new domain: President Trump's television screen.

BERKELEY, Calif. — Energy Secretary Rick Perry emphasized his advocacy for federal scientists and their work on basic research in a speech at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) yesterday.

Sheldon Adelson, the casino tycoon and a major Republican Party donor, helped connect an Israeli air-to-water company with U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.

A recent decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has bolstered a fight by environmentalists and four states against leaking coal ash impoundments.

Siding with automakers, the Department of Transportation today dumped the proposed Obama-era fines for failing to meet fuel economy targets.

Arlington House, the former home of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, closed last week for repairs of its broken windows, rotting wood and peeling paint. But the $12 million donation behind the fixes strikes critics as a troublesome trend.

A crack in the earth has opened across Kenya's Great Rift Valley, breaking homes and infrastructure and sending people fleeing.

Rabid skunks are invading the Front Range of the Rockies and other parts of Colorado.

Wyoming's coal sector has stopped its tailspin, but prospects for a full recovery are bleak, according to a report released this week.

The costly collapse of South Carolina's Semmes Lake Dam in 2015 has been blamed, in part, on a commanding general at Fort Jackson who wanted to make his yard look better, according to new documents.