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Southern California's largest water provider yesterday unexpectedly backed away from a plan to fund Gov. Jerry Brown's $17 billion effort to replumb the state's water system.

Mike Flynn, U.S. EPA's acting deputy administrator, finishes his decadeslong tenure at the agency today.

Heated debates about overseas hunting and wildlife trafficking could become more learned, with an Arizona-based federal judge's order that the Interior Department release more public records about the wildlife being imported into the United States.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt touted his agency's reconsideration of Obama-era clean car rules this morning, saying the move would lead to greater regulatory certainty for automakers and lower costs for consumers.

Faced with vehement public opposition, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has pulled back from his plan to raise peak-season entry fees to $70 at 17 of the most popular national parks.

Conservatives are supporting U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt as he struggles with reports of premium travel, high-price security and ties to lobbyists.

Serbian officials found about 100 tons of toxic waste in a rural area last month, continuing a string of disturbing discoveries of industrial refuse across the country.

The Indonesian port city of Balikpapan has declared a state of emergency after an oil spill spread and caught fire this weekend in a bay off the coast.

Workers in Miami have spent over a year moving a sewer pump and replacing pipes along a street in Liberty City, producing clouds of dust that are irritating residents.

A new law in North Dakota could mean that the majority of oil spills go unreported, according to an analysis by The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead.

The Colorado Senate yesterday approved a bill that would require boaters to pay up to continue efforts to keep out invasive mussels.

A Canadian startup is taking on Elon Musk in the race to build a high-speed transit system called a hyperloop.

Levels of a toxic flame retardant in the blood of children from New York City are dropping each year, according to a new study.

Underwater electricity cables leaked about 550 gallons of synthetic coolant into Michigan's Straits of Mackinac, officials said yesterday.

Wildfires last fall destroyed more than 5,600 structures and killed 23 people in Santa Rosa, Calif.

A museum in Los Alamos, N.M., the city where the atomic bomb was born, has stalled a planned exhibit from Japan because it advocates for nuclear disarmament.

Home solar panel installations declined last year for the first time since 2000, according to GTM Research.

Murray Energy Corp. will not be following a major customer into bankruptcy, maintaining that increased coal exports alleviated previous threats to the contrary.

Bonnie Reiss, a longtime friend and political aide to former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, died Monday after battling cancer for a year. She was 62.

The global mortality rate from climate change could skyrocket by the next century, according to research from New York University's School of Medicine and its College of Global Public Health.

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