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Even if San Antonio isn't meeting the 2015 ground-level ozone standard, EPA should cut the booming growth hub some slack and let it come into compliance on its own, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) wrote this month in a newly released letter that urges the agency to revive an approach abandoned a decade ago.

The House today failed to pass a five-year farm bill after support fell apart among conservative Republicans.

Kenyan authorities are scrambling to clean up after a train derailed, spilling its contents into the Indian Ocean and onto a main highway. It was carrying about 66,000 gallons of fuel.

New South Wales, an Australian state, has proposed protecting rather than culling thousands of wild horses, a suggestion that angers scientists who argue the feral animals are doing tremendous harm to the Snowy Mountains region.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has paired up with biologists on a groundbreaking effort to grow tens of thousands of freshwater mussels in a hatchery.

The Army Corps of Engineers is making emergency repairs on a Missouri levee inundated by floodwaters.

A Florida teacher accused of drowning wild raccoons in class has resigned.

The cougar that killed one bicyclist and seriously injured another in a rare attack Saturday in Washington state was "emaciated," according to an official.

Lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano entered the ocean over the weekend, creating a toxic cloud of steam.

The Department of Agriculture has released its prototype labels for genetically modified foods, but some find them confusing.

A new report calls for moving the National Institutes of Health's research chimps to retirement sanctuaries unless the move would shorten their lives.

Hundreds of friends and family members of Bijan Ghaisar rallied outside the Department of Justice on Saturday, six months after he was fatally shot by U.S. Park Police in Northern Virginia.

Taxpayers in a southern Indiana county will pay at least $50,000 to clean up thousands of tons of toxic coal ash buried on private property nine years ago.

Environmentalists today warned that loosely regulated paper mills may be polluting rivers with dangerous levels of chemicals linked to cancer and developmental problems.

A new federal study aims to find out how fishing families in Alaska are affected by changes to fisheries management and decreasing fish stocks.

Spring is making some farmers nervous — because an invasive species with a huge appetite and a high rate of reproduction wants to eat their crops.

Newly released police body-camera footage shows chaos as police ran door to door trying to get Northern California residents to flee the wine country wildfires of last October.

Endangered piping plovers have found a new place to raise a family on a restored beach in Delaware.

Rebuilding Sperry Chalet in Glacier National Park won't permanently harm wildlife, according to the park's newly released environmental impact statement.

Snowmobile groups in Montana and Idaho want the Trump administration to help open up proposed wilderness areas to their machines after courts turned them down.

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