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A coalition of environmentalists, state regulators and engineering firms is asking Congress to include "nature-based solutions" in the Water Resources Development Act.

Fresh off a lackluster third-place finish in the Republican primary, former coal boss Don Blankenship plans to run for Senate in West Virginia as the Constitution Party nominee.

A company hoping to knock down Virginia's longtime ban on uranium mining will get its day in court, specifically the Supreme Court.

EPA science advisers have decided to scrutinize the agency's planned rollbacks of two Obama-era rules on greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.

The Trump administration has sought a slate of quick regulatory reforms over the past year, tweaking environmental permitting requirements everywhere from EPA to the Federal Communications Commission.

The high-ranking lawmaker who wants to block judicial review of a massive California water project calls his maneuver something close to standard operating procedure. And he's right.

Giant flatworm invaders in France have managed to go under the radar for years, until now.

British government officials today announced a plan to cut air pollution and its societal costs by $1.4 billion annually by 2020.

When the power went out in Lake Worth, Fla., over the weekend, residents were warned that they were experiencing a comic-book-style apocalypse.

Lava from the Kilauea volcano has reached the property of the Puna Geothermal Venture power plant in Hawaii.

Tesla Inc. is going to add two high-end varieties of the Model 3 and make buyers of the base-priced model wait.

A Tennessee landfill nicknamed "Black Mountain" continues to leak toxic sludge and spread a stink to its neighbors more than a year after it was abandoned.

Infrastructure to protect towns along the Mississippi River from its frequent floods could be making the problem worse, scientists warn.

U.S. prosecutors have indicted the owner of a South African hunting company, accusing him of bribing Zimbabwean officials when he took a Colorado tourist on an elephant hunt in 2015.

A judge ruled yesterday that the teen who started the massive wildfire in Oregon's Columbia River Gorge last year must pay about $36 million in restitution submitted by various parties to the court.

The Utah Court of Appeals has stopped further legal proceedings in the trial of a former National Park Service ranger and her husband, who are accused of trying to kill cattle in Bears Ears National Monument in April 2017.

Humans account for about one ten-thousandth of life on Earth if you measure by biomass, according to new research.

Federal officials have shut down a Department of Agriculture program in Montana studying whether bison birth control would reduce the spread of the disease brucellosis.

A federally funded study at Allegheny National Forest aims to find out whether herd immunity can save ash trees from a notorious invasive beetle.

A national parks advocacy group has notified the Army Corps of Engineers that it plans to file a second lawsuit challenging the approval of a 17-mile transmission line across the James River, which the National Park Service has warned will ruin the site of the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown.

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