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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced late yesterday that Elon Musk's company has been chosen to build a blisteringly fast transit link to O'Hare International Airport.

From tarps to generators, the Federal Emergency Management Agency failed to deliver emergency supplies to the people of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, according to an investigation by NPR and the PBS series "Frontline."

The Anacostia River for the first time has not failed an annual health assessment for toxins, trash and other environmental problems.

Excessive pumping of groundwater in California's San Joaquin Valley has led to elevated levels of arsenic in an aquifer, according to new research.

Shell Oil Co. has been working to restore once-neglected slave cemeteries in west New Orleans near its Convent refinery.

As ice sheets melt due to global warming, more of east Greenland is becoming accessible to cruise ships and energy producers.

In its starkest warning yet, the United Nations has found in a draft report obtained by Reuters that by about 2040, global warming is set to go over the strictest goal set by the Paris climate agreement.

A black man alleges that his co-workers at Vivint Solar Inc. used racial slurs and built a "white only" fort to demean him.

EPA has until Sept. 15 to make a final decision on Maryland's 2016 bid for help in dealing with ozone-forming emissions from coal-fired power plants in five other states, under a court order issued yesterday in response to lawsuits brought by the state and environmental groups.

An earthquake that hit California wine country in 2014 could have been prompted by receding groundwater underneath the Sonoma and Napa valleys, according to new research.

A collared gray wolf has been tracked nearly as far south as Lake Tahoe in what wildlife biologists regard as another milestone in the species' re-emergence.

Mariposa Grove, where the legendary giant sequoias live in Yosemite National Park, is opening up again this week after a three-year, $40 million restoration project.

A brush fire burned eight homes in the tourist hub of Moab, Utah, starting Tuesday night, while other fires in Colorado and Wyoming have forced more than 3,000 people from their homes.

A company dedicated to fighting fraud in the global fishing industry may be connected to the same practices it seeks to end, according to an investigation by the Associated Press.

As automakers urged the governors of nine states this week to help boost sales of zero-emission vehicles, environmentalists are faulting the industry for failing to do its part to get more clean cars on the road.

EPA has nearly finished the first round of its bitterly contested rewrite of the 2015 coal ash regulations, with a final draft being reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget.

Environmental law firm Earthjustice has tapped Abigail Dillen, the head of its climate and energy litigation program, to serve as its new president.

A friend and former colleague of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt today passed a key test on his way to becoming a federal judge.

Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee today condemned a Republican-authored proposal that would penalize individual states for blocking new offshore energy production — via payments that could exceed $1 trillion by one estimate — as a "shakedown."

Climate research and NOAA's popular grant programs emerged among the winners today as the Senate Appropriations Committee easily approved a $63 billion spending bill that would pay for everything from space exploration to ocean monitoring.

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