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The House this morning passed a long-awaited, comprehensive bill that would take steps to reform the country's nuclear waste management program.

The Interior Department is expanding public outreach on its proposal to open part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas development.

President Trump today tapped Ryan Nelson, his former pick for a key post at the Interior Department, to serve on the influential 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Bureau of Land Management's 200 uniformed law enforcement officers distributed a total of nearly 16,000 traffic citations in the past decade — and to Utah GOP Sen. Mike Lee, that's a flashing red light about the role of that police force.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told Senate appropriators today that he is not holding up fiscal 2018 funding for the department that Congress passed in the March omnibus.

In an unexpected move, EPA said today it "intends to finalize" an Obama-era proposal that sought to restrict the sale of a deadly paint-stripping chemical.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is moving to revamp the agency's machinery for setting air quality standards for a half-dozen key pollutants, with a goal of completing two particularly charged reviews before the conclusion of President Trump's current term.

One March evening last year, the Washington, D.C., fire department dispatched first responders at 5:18 pm -- someone was reportedly unconscious.

The greater noctule, a vulnerable European bat species, could be wiped out of its major refuges by invasive parakeets, according to a new study.

The South Georgia pipit and pintail, distinctive birds found only in the South Atlantic, can breathe a sigh of relief.

Flooding by the Clark Fork River has led to evacuations in Missoula, Mont., as the water nears 100-year flood levels.

Wild horse advocates are furious about an emergency roundup northwest of Las Vegas by the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management.

Chemours Co. will spend over $100 million to prevent GenX and other compounds from getting into the air around its plant in North Carolina after it was found responsible for contaminating drinking water.

Citing climate change, California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) yesterday ordered a massive effort to combat the growing wildfire threat.

Florida Keys canals are still littered with debris, choked by downed trees and broken docks eight months after Hurricane Irma hit the region.

EPA said it is ramping up its investigation into manganese contamination in a low-income neighborhood on the Southeast Side of Chicago.

Doomsday preppers are commonly associated with a paranoid vision of the apocalypse, hoarding canned food, watching YouTube survival tutorials and keeping dank cellars to get them through the coming nuclear holocaust.

EPA is giving itself another six months to decide on New York's request for help in reining in upwind pollution from sources outside its borders.

A Washington, D.C., law firm is using its paperwork prowess to send the money from its solar energy credits to the city's low-income residents.

The Pentagon is warning lawmakers that expanded offshore drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico could "severely" affect military testing and training without proper restrictions.

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