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EPA is proposing new lead-dust standards to significantly lower acceptable levels for the first time in 17 years.

EPA is jump-starting a review of its 2015 ozone standard under controversial new ground rules that will require consideration of potential economic and energy effects with a timetable for completion before the end of President Trump's current term.

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. — The bottom is literally falling out of America's most productive farmland.

The Australian Senate is looking into the country's threatened species crisis following accusations that management of the species is poorly monitored and lacks funds.

A New York park system last week marked its 150th anniversary with 1,500 plastic flamingos — setting a world record.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) this week vetoed a bill aimed at protecting hog farmers from public nuisance complaints, citing concerns over property rights.

A measure to restrict the liability of lead paint companies will likely make the California ballot in the fall, the state government said yesterday.

One rare white alligator is missing after a fire in Florida that killed 43 other alligators and crocodiles at an animal sanctuary, according to officials.

The battery in a Tesla Inc. electric vehicle that crashed in Florida last month reignited twice after firefighters put out the first flames, safety regulators said in a report yesterday. Two people died and a third was injured in the May 8 crash.

A proposed solar energy plant in the nation's top coal-producing state yesterday gained a key approval from the Bureau of Land Management.

The IRS has decided to extend tax incentives for clean energy sources including solar for up to four years.

EPA wants more time to comply with a court order requiring it to hand over scientific records backing Administrator Scott Pruitt's claims about climate change.

In a remote creek in California's San Gabriel Mountains, wildlife officials yesterday let loose 500 southern mountain yellow-legged frog tadpoles, and it was cause for celebration.

A tiny toad has a chance to leap onto the list of endangered species.

A Northern California wildfire has forced at least 1,500 people to flee and burned down a dozen homes.

The world's tropical forests lost 39 million acres last year, an area the size of Bangladesh, according to a report by Global Forest Watch.

The Trump administration has signaled that it is open to a plan to put a paved highway across sensitive wetlands in Florida, a reversal of its earlier stance.

The Gulf Coast and the industries it supports are vulnerable to climate change, intensifying storms and increased erosion.

Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee are urging Congress to "resist" efforts by the Trump administration to shrink public lands and instead get behind legislation to increase access and economic opportunities on these lands and improve the lives of rural Americans.

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), were heckled by protesters Monday night over the White House's controversial decisions on immigration policy.

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