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Outdoor retailer REI today announced rigorous sustainability requirements for the 1,000-plus brands it carries.

Westmoreland Coal Co. appears to be the latest coal company headed for bankruptcy, fueling concerns about slow cleanup at its mines in Montana and beyond.

Scientists are racing to find a solution to the algae blooms plaguing waterways from Lake Erie to the Florida Everglades.

Flint, Mich., officials slammed Republican Gov. Rick Snyder for ending state supplies of free bottled water to the city.

U.S. EPA is poised to start taking public feedback on another round of proposed changes to its 2015 update to emissions standards for oil refineries.

A pipeline owned by Andeavor ruptured and spilled nearly 7,000 gallons of diesel fuel in south-central Idaho late last week, the company said.

Dozens of workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation have been exposed to radiation as they tear down a plutonium processing plant dating back to the 1940s, according to the Department of Energy.

The Keystone pipeline last fall leaked nearly twice as much crude oil in South Dakota as originally estimated, a TransCanada Corp. spokeswoman told a local newspaper Saturday.

The Energy Department today announced a request for proposal worth up to $1.8 billion to develop up to three new exascale supercomputers within the next five years.

Federal appellate judges sided with U.S. EPA today in a dispute over its responses to Freedom of Information Act requests on alleged scientific misconduct.

Chinook salmon in the Puget Sound are taking in a variety of human drugs, and it may threaten their survival, new research shows.

At 64, David Goethel thought it might be time to quit fishing and get rid of his boat, a 44-foot trawler named Ellen Diane.

Former Hawaii Democratic Sen. Daniel Akaka, who served 36 years in Congress, died Friday at age 93.

Hawaii Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz, one of the Hill's climate hawks, is accusing Republicans of being the only party focused on making global warming worse.

House Democrats are calling for investigations into whether Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke violated election law during a Florida business trip and allegations that the National Park Service deleted from a study any mention of a human role in climate change.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke spoke to a large gathering of North Dakota Republicans over the weekend, rallying the party behind Rep. Kevin Cramer's Senate bid.

Southern California's largest water provider is reconsidering whether to fund Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) $17 billion tunnels project, setting up a vote tomorrow that could reshape the state's water future.

Climate change, sea-level rise, natural disasters and offshore drilling might swing what looks to be one of the most expensive Senate races ever.

Former coal lobbyist and Senate staffer Andrew Wheeler appears to be one vote closer to confirmation as U.S. EPA deputy administrator, after securing the backing of another moderate Democrat.

The government's top ethics officer is calling on U.S. EPA to investigate Administrator Scott Pruitt's alleged excessive spending and misuse of his office.

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