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Interior Department official Susan Combs' history with the black-capped vireo is about to thicken.

A former top EPA political aide has divulged to Democratic lawmakers examples of exorbitant spending and misuse of Cabinet-level power by Administrator Scott Pruitt.

In Utah's Wasatch Front, authorities tried to ramp up their no-burn enforcement this winter, but they've had problems tracking down the rule breakers.

An anticipated new tally has found 124 wolves in Oregon, an 11 percent increase from last year's results. Before about two decades ago, wolves had been wiped out in the state.

Puerto Rico's gradually recovering electric grid suffered another setback yesterday at the hands of a single tree.

The world's first full hyperloop system began construction this week in Toulouse, France. Don't expect to travel far, though.

Tesla Inc. will no longer participate in the federal government's investigation of a fatal crash of one of its cars in California last month, the company and the government said yesterday.

Even short-term exposure to small particulate matter pollution causes an increase in lower respiratory infections, especially in young children, according to a new study.

Nearly 70 percent of homes in Chicago tested as part of a city program over the past two years had lead present in their water, according to a Chicago Tribune analysis.

About 4,200 gallons of fuel spilled into the Mississippi River near New Orleans yesterday, flowing past the French Quarter Festival.

EPA fired back yesterday after Sunnyside Gold Corp. accused the agency of failing to operate a pollution control facility at the Gold King mine Superfund site in Colorado at full capacity (Greenwire, April 12.

A barrel of radioactive waste ruptured at a site that includes the Idaho National Laboratory, the Department of Energy said yesterday.

A federal court today handed a Texas utility a partial victory in its efforts to overturn a labor board's ruling that the utility had unlawfully fired an employee for raising safety concerns about smart meters.

Federal appeals judges have stayed a lower-court order forcing the Energy Department to enact stalled efficiency standards.

The public's perception of endangered species is skewed by cute animals' presence in pop culture, a new study found.

A green-haired turtle that can breathe through its genitals is becoming a media sensation, but it may not be long for this world.

The California Coastal Commission approved a $1.45 million penalty yesterday against a seaside apartment complex in Pacifica for not maintaining a sea wall and public access stairway leading to a beach.

An Oklahoma wildfire has burned over 120,000 acres, forcing hundreds of people to leave their homes.

Capping a decades-long conservation effort, the Fish and Wildlife Service today announced it will be removing the black-capped vireo from Endangered Species Act protections.

Thousands are set to hit the National Mall tomorrow for the second March for Science, with satellite marches taking place in over 200 other cities.

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