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A new class-action lawsuit is seeking $100 million in damages for Hanford Nuclear Reservation workers who lost part of their pensions in a failed contracting program.

An ex-FBI agent and activist groups are trying to halt the opening of Rocky Flats, a former nuclear weapons site, to recreation.

The Department of Homeland Security can keep secret information about certain chemical facilities, a federal judge ruled yesterday.

A bison attacked and injured a woman this week on a trail in the Old Faithful area of Yellowstone National Park.

California officials released 1 million chinook salmon — eight truckloads full — in the Sacramento River this week to replace the fish lost after the Oroville Dam spillway collapse.

Researchers have found tiny bits of plastic in the Gulf Coast dunes where loggerhead sea turtles lay their eggs, which could skew their future gender ratios toward female.

The Trump administration yesterday said it has reinstated lease applications rejected under President Obama for a controversial copper-nickel mine in northern Minnesota.

The Federal Communications Commission officially moved to roll back the National Environmental Policy Act for small wireless infrastructure projects.

Developers of liquefied natural gas export projects in Florida have enlisted the help of Brian Ballard, a powerful lobbyist with close ties to President Trump.

Bureau of Land Management archaeologists are now the latest example of federal scientists being blocked from attending a professional conference for reasons that remain open to question.

Mayor Billy Keyserling of Beaufort, S.C., worries these days about the 7,000-pound nuclear bomb accidentally dropped in 1958 near Georgia's Tybee Island, roughly 30 miles away, a weapon the U.S. military considers "irretrievably lost."

The proposed revisions to Obama-era greater sage grouse conservation plans unveiled yesterday include removing hundreds of thousands of acres of protected habitat in Utah and easing restrictions on oil and gas drilling and other activities in Colorado, Idaho and Wyoming.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's top lieutenant for Superfund issues, having left the agency, is defending himself and his former boss from suggestions of impropriety.

Some of Administrator Scott Pruitt's closest aides are leaving EPA, underscoring the turmoil engulfing the agency's political ranks.

Insect dung and pollution are turning the Taj Mahal just a bit green, yellow and black, according to an environmental lawyer.

Mr. President and the First Lady — bald eagles at the National Arboretum in northeast Washington — have welcomed their second chick.

A Michigan town wants to dig up more information about the environmental effects of a proposed "green" cemetery.

Nearly 1,500 Hawaiians were forced from their homes after the Kilauea volcano erupted yesterday.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced the appointment yesterday of new directors for four offices.

Minnesota health officials warned yesterday against eating any fish from Lake Elmo near St. Paul after decades of water pollution by 3M Co.

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