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The widow of a miner killed in the Upper Big Branch mine explosion has filed a lawsuit claiming the federal government didn't do enough to stop the disaster.

Animal rights advocates have sued the Trump administration in a bid to win Endangered Species Act protections for wild mustangs in Montana.

A federal judge in South Carolina has ruled that a challenge to the Trump administrations delay of the Clean Water Rule must remain in the Palmetto State.

Arkansas state regulators, backed by U.S. EPA, are cruising toward full replacement of an Obama-era plan intended to slash haze-forming emissions from coal-fired power plants, according to a new court filing.

When the Amazon floods, brazilian jaguars climb.

April is generally the start of the abalone diving season on the Northern California coast, but with the population on the verge of collapse this year, the diving community has come up with an ambitious conservation plan.

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck off the coast of Southern California yesterday.

The first conviction under a California law banning the sale of ivory trumpets the legal consequences and complications that envelop the ivory trade.

President Trump intends to nominate Heidi King to be administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

U.S. soybean farmers are on edge about the Trump administration's trade spat with China. One aspect of their business, though — biodiesel — isn't necessarily sharing the gloom yet.

With a top aide to U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt headed for the exit, the leadership of the agency's regulatory reform task force remains uncertain.

Long before his book tour discussing solar power's future, Varun Sivaram was a Rhodes scholar, an adviser to Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — and a former underwear model.

When real estate developer James Doyle acquired more than 2,400 acres outside St. George, Utah, in the 1980s, he envisioned creating an expanse that included nine golf courses and luxury homes.

Allies of embattled U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said today his job is safe despite mounting ethics controversies.

Allegations of ethical missteps have piled up for U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt as he campaigned to keep his job this week.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte today ordered mining companies to start planting trees to restore damage and said he might ban all open-pit mining next year.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) on Friday vetoed a bill that would have encouraged water managers to put treated wastewater back into the state's aquifer system, a measure that environmentalists ripped.

The Maryland Senate on Friday voted to strip Baltimore's biggest air polluter of its "green energy" label — and millions of dollars in state subsidies.

At weather stations across Alaska, the National Weather Service will replace human operators with weather machines from Finland that cost $1.2 million each to install.

A small contractor has sued Tesla Inc., claiming lack of payment for work at the company's Fremont, Calif., assembly plant.

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