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Authorities have arrested a Danish man they say played a role in the southern Colorado wildfire that has grown to over 40,000 acres.

Migrating whales and dolphins in the Mediterranean Sea will be protected from fossil fuel exploration in a marine wildlife reserve announced by the Spanish government Friday.

North Carolina's famous wild horses, already plagued by disease and four-wheel-drive vehicles, are now threatened by junk food, too, experts say.

A fast-spreading wildfire in Northern California broke out over the weekend and forced evacuations while spewing ash into a large part of the region, according to officials.

The Army Corps of Engineers should stop its environmental review process for the proposed Pebble mine project due to the Bristol Bay area's "unique" environment, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker (I) and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott said Friday.

EPA has extended the comment period for a controversial cost-benefit proposal by 30 days following requests from public interest groups.

Almost two dozen conservative and free-market groups are pushing back against a growing group of Republican lawmakers supporting an Obama-era climate agreement.

A federal judge is giving EPA more time — but not as much as the agency wanted — to search for and produce scientific studies backing Administrator Scott Pruitt's position on climate change.

Growing use of biofuels may be speeding the conversion of noncropland to corn and soybean production — but the extent isn't clear, EPA said in a report on the impact of biofuel mandates.

States would get greater input into the federal process for listing endangered species under a draft bill released today by Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman John Barrasso.

The administrator of EPA's eight-state Southeastern regional office was deeply involved with lawyers and lobbyists now facing criminal charges over a scheme to thwart environmental cleanup efforts in a low-income area of Birmingham, Ala., according to newly released court records.

Researchers in North Carolina were bemused when they tracked two bobwhite quail chicks all the way to a bullfrog's stomach.

In Michigan, health officials have discovered more than twice as many rabies-infected bats in 2018 as they had at this point last year.

Tesla Inc. engineering chief Doug Field is departing the company after taking a leave of absence from his job supervising product development in early May.

To highlight what they consider lax security, Greenpeace activists say they flew a small drone dressed like Superman into the tower of a nuclear power plant in France.

The phrase "climate change" was changed to "climate" on a page of a federal agency's website after President Trump's election but before he took office, according to a report released yesterday.

The Department of Justice has sent Glencore PLC a subpoena related to a money laundering and corruption investigation, the Switzerland-based mining and commodities trading giant said today.

A district judge has ruled to keep motorized vehicles out of remote parts of Bitterroot National Forest but decided officials need to hear from bicyclists who believe they've been unfairly shut out from trails.

A long-running dispute over whether an interstate commission can block hydraulic fracturing in a section of the Marcellus Shale will not end anytime soon.

With a federal judge showing signs of impatience, EPA is promising to launch a new rulemaking on regional haze requirements for Texas by next month.

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