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The Vermont House of Representatives has passed a bill to tighten the state's standards for toxic substances.

The first sperm whale has been spotted in Washington state's inland waters, according to the Pacific Whale Watch Association.

The spread of electric cars could hurt a surprising sector: the beverage industry, according to a recent Morgan Stanley report.

Hershey Co. is putting its money where its mouth is: The company plans to spend $500 million on making its Kiss more sustainable.

The United States produces more corn and soybeans than any other country and exports more than most, as well. But farmers still don't grow enough to feed a fast-growing part of the livestock industry: organic chickens and cows.

Michigan regulators yesterday approved a controversial permit for Nestlé Waters North America to significantly increase its groundwater withdrawal from 250 gallons a minute to 400 gallons.

U.S. EPA's inspector general is taking a look at the accuracy of the numbers produced by continuous emissions monitoring systems used by power plants and other large stationary pollution sources.

A federal court has found U.S. EPA unlawfully dragged its feet in responding to five civil rights complaints that languished at the agency for more than a decade.

Frances Lloyd, a pioneering woman in science and a key member of the team that developed the device used worldwide to measure the volt, died last month in her home. She was 94.

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker (I) wants to use $9.5 million that was to be set aside to study drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to pay for a new emergency 911 system.

Six Arkansas farmers can use a controversial weedkiller containing the chemical dicamba, a state judge has ruled.

U.S. Steel Corp. has agreed to pay a $600,000 civil penalty and reimburse federal agencies for an April 2017 spill of wastewater containing the toxic compound hexavalent chromium.

A federal judge yesterday knocked down the Fish and Wildlife Service's 2015 rule for managing the experimental population of the Mexican gray wolf, finding it "fails to further the conservation" of the imperiled species.

Marine mammals tend to be bigger than their land-dwelling counterparts, and researchers may now know why.

Officials in southern Utah want to build a new highway through a federal nature reserve, but environmentalists say it's a danger to the threatened Mojave desert tortoise.

Scientists have found over 200 dead Guiana dolphins in Brazil's Sepetiba Bay since late last year. Fishermen reported seeing as many as five emaciated carcasses a day.

The Trump administration's proposed border wall would threaten endangered animals and plants in Texas, according to researchers at the University of Texas, Austin.

The Trump administration's lawsuit challenging California's efforts to limit the sale of public lands could inadvertently strike a blow to Utah's legal bid to control federal lands in the state, according to conservationists.

A diverse coalition of interest groups is beating the drum for continued research and development funding within the Energy Department in the upcoming fiscal year.

Eight days before his assassination on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. preached at the Community Baptist Church of Love in Paterson, N.J., with local police officer Benjamin Leak standing close by his left side as a bodyguard.

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