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Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue's longtime donors and friends were beneficiaries of a new EPA policy declaring that burning biomass for energy doesn't increase heat-trapping carbon emissions.

At least 41 people are dead — half of them children — after a dam broke in Kenya's Rift Valley, according to officials.

Pennsylvania will use $118 million in settlement money from Volkswagen's cheating emissions scandal to battle air pollution in the state, the governor announced today.

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, which has been leaking lava for several days, could soon cause an explosive eruption, sending boulders and ash flying from the crater.

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz, a Maryland gubernatorial candidate and staple in state politics for decades, died of a heart attack early this morning after a candidate forum the night before.

The National Transportation Safety Board announced yesterday that it will investigate a Tesla Inc. Model S car crash that killed two teenagers Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Former astronaut James Reilly II will be sworn in May 14 as the 17th director of the U.S. Geological Survey, taking charge of an agency that's been busy and sometimes distracted during a long leadership drought.

Todd Stern, President Obama's special envoy for climate change, was busy at a conference in Germany this week trying to reinforce the Paris climate deal, which he had a hand in creating.

The Department of Defense changed wording and removed references to climate change before submitting a report to Congress on how extreme weather and climate change affect the military, a draft of the document obtained by The Washington Post shows.

King County, Wash., filed a lawsuit yesterday against the five biggest oil companies for climate damages, the latest in a growing group of municipalities taking on the oil industry.

The Sierra Club says a coal-fired power plant near Pittsburgh is allowing soot and coal ash to rain down on local communities. It filed a notice of intent to sue the plant yesterday.

Veterans and their families are pushing for a reinstatement of more than 60 lawsuits alleging that a former branch of Halliburton Co. dumped tires, batteries, medical waste and other things into burn pits that caused health problems for troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Environmentalists hope a recent federal court ruling could effectively reinstate an Obama-era ban on new coal mining that the Trump administration lifted last year.

A federal judge yesterday tossed out a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a law that Republicans have wielded to scuttle several Obama-era environmental regulations.

Quickly after five rabbits were introduced to a remote island in the southern Indian Ocean, they started wreaking havoc on the ecosystem, according to new research.

A North Florida wildlife refuge announced this week that Grasshopper and Hemlock — two endangered whooping cranes — successfully hatched a pair of chicks.

Some might be shocked to see sea otters in salt marshes or alligators on the beach, but new research suggests these hunters are actually returning to their old stomping grounds.

The Forest Service is predicting another above-average year for wildfires in 2018, with threats concentrated in parts of California, the Pacific Northwest, Arizona, New Mexico and Montana.

A group of Republican senators are calling on the Trump administration to exclude utility-scale solar panels from tariffs imposed earlier this year.

The top House Natural Resources Committee Democrat today rolled out his latest effort to overhaul U.S. hardrock mining laws on the 146th anniversary of the General Mining Act of 1872.

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