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Thousands of abandoned crab pots are covering the floor of the Puget Sound and posing a risk to crabs and other marine life, according to officials.

The sweeping die-offs of wetland grasses in the lower Mississippi River Delta might be related to abnormally high water levels, according to an Louisiana State University researcher.

A conservation group yesterday sued the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife over its policies on bear hunting.

A Hawaii man was arrested after police say video shows him shoving another man and firing a gun inside the mandatory evacuation zone near the erupting Kilauea volcano in Hawaii.

California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed two bills yesterday to establish permanent indoor and outdoor water use goals.

About 360,000 Californians have unsafe drinking water systems, according to an analysis by McClatchy of figures from the State Water Resources Control Board.

Milwaukee's lead poisoning prevention program is plagued by missteps and fails to adequately protect children, according to a damning new report from the state Department of Health Services.

The National Guard will start giving out free water in the Salem, Ore., area, with many taps contaminated by a toxic algae bloom.

EPA is set to publish Monday a second round of final attainment designations for its 2015 ground-level ozone standard, not long after plaintiffs in federal court litigation accused the agency of "illegal delay."

After wildfires devastated California's wine country, humans weren't the only ones affected — hundreds of cats were also left wandering the streets among the ash.

Central Africa's mountain gorilla population has surpassed 1,000, a 25 percent increase since 2010, according to a new survey.

Seven wildfires continued to burn in California yesterday, a day after erupting in two Bay Area counties.

The battle against invasive Burmese pythons in Everglades National Park just intensified.

The Trump administration argued in a new court filing that leasing should not stop in one of the nation's top fossil fuel-producing regions, saying the problems cited by a federal judge with agency climate analyses are "relatively minor."

Lawmakers and advocates are pushing for Congress to reauthorize a federal program aimed at reducing fatalities, injuries and property loss from earthquakes.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee continues to move forward with its investigation of EPA during Administrator Scott Pruitt's tenure.

The prominent Arizona-based environmental group Center for Biological Diversity yesterday debuted an arm dedicated to electoral politics.

An EPA official acknowledged this morning that the agency could advance a number of high-profile rulemakings even as an outside advisory panel finds that the underlying science is inadequate.