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After racking up more than $1 million in legal fees, Wyoming's largest coal county has reached a deal with Alpha Natural Resources Inc. for more than $20 million in unpaid taxes.

Rumors of a planned federal policy intervention have created new fissures among the nuclear industry and its backers, which are torn between a desperate need for financial support for plants and an uneasiness about again being lumped together with coal.

In a new federal lawsuit, Tesla Inc. is accusing a former employee of hacking computers at the company's Nevada battery factory and stealing confidential files.

New York state yesterday sued six companies that manufacture firefighting foam using toxic chemicals.

Koko, the 46-year-old gorilla that learned sign language, died this week at the Gorilla Foundation.

The ongoing trade war between China and the U.S. has a new victim: American lobsters.

Thirteen bald eagles who were mysteriously found dead on a Maryland farm over two years ago had ingested a banned, toxic pesticide, according to a federal lab report.

EPA blasted Pennsylvania for lackluster performance in reducing Chesapeake Bay pollution and detailed the need for "enhanced oversight" of the state's cleanup efforts.

Under the Trump administration, scientists have persisted in naming a plethora of discoveries after former President Obama.

When Chemical Safety Board member Kristen Kulinowski takes the agency's helm next week, her goal is to steady a watchdog rocked by funding troubles, morale issues and staffing woes.

President Trump tentatively promised supporters at a rally in Minnesota last night that his administration would rescind an Obama-era mining ban blocking a major copper-nickel project.

EPA has decided against imposing new regulations to help prevent chemical spills from industrial facilities from reaching the nation's waterways.

A House subcommittee this morning approved four pieces of legislation aimed at boosting advanced nuclear energy technology.

Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-Mont.) today earned praise from Trump administration officials for his proposals to lift restrictions on more than 800,000 acres of public lands in Montana, but others urged him back to the drawing board.

The Bureau of Land Management has completed an environmental review of a massive natural gas project in the heart of prime greater sage grouse habitat in Wyoming that it plans to advance with certain restrictions to minimize impacts.

The Supreme Court today ruled that the Securities and Exchange Commission's manner of picking in-house judges is unconstitutional, a decision that could affect other federal agencies with similar positions.

Justice Anthony Kennedy today added his voice to a growing chorus in the judicial branch and among the legal community expressing worries over the so-called Chevron doctrine.

The Interior Department would take over part of the Army Corps of Engineers' civil works program under a wildly ambitious federal government reorganization plan proposed by the Trump administration today.

Nearly 1,000 Israeli surfers gathered today to protest offshore oil and gas development.

Researchers suspect that kangaroos in Australia that appear to be drunk might be suffering from neurological damage due to eating a common pasture crop, according to officials.

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