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Conservation groups and animal lovers have banded together to save prairie dogs in Nebraska threatened by a land sale.

The first major storm of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season knocked out power for 47,000 people on Puerto Rico yesterday.

The saga of a mama mallard duck and her brood on the doorstep of the Interior Department building in Washington captured the attention of the agency's employees and Twitter followers.

Tesla Inc. has opened up Model 3 orders to anyone who can afford them.

A global initiative that aims to put more electric vehicles on the road will launch today in Brooklyn, N.Y., site of the Formula E season finale, an all-EV race.

A truck crash yesterday spilled more waste from the Gold King mine into a Colorado creek.

An Idaho town needs to improve a wastewater treatment plant or face hefty fines, EPA told the city in a draft consent order.

The first case over whether the weedkiller Roundup causes cancer has gone to trial.

Environmental groups are suing the Fish and Wildlife Service seeking renewed federal protections for the Louisiana black bear.

A federal appellate court has sided with EPA in a lawsuit challenging the agency's decision to give the Philadelphia area an extra year to meet the 2008 national ground-level ozone standard.

Federal judges rejected a sweeping lawsuit today from environmentalists who say federal regulators are fundamentally biased in favor of pipelines.

Authorities have arrested several people over two destructive Colorado wildfires.

Deep-sea explorers from NOAA have found some unusual creatures on the ocean floor off the southeastern U.S., including one fish National Geographic describes as a "rarely seen horror" with "a maw of sharp teeth and haunting black eyes."

American Forests has promoted its vice president of conservation programs, Jad Daley, to be the organization's president and CEO.

The U.S. Geological Survey first underpaid hydrologist Lisa Reynolds Fogarty. Next, USGS overpaid her. Then, completing the bureaucratic slapstick, the agency sent her a bill for the excess back pay.

Democrat Doug Owens lost two congressional races to Utah Republican Rep. Mia Love.

Julie Eddy Rokala, chief of staff to California Democratic Rep. Doris Matsui, has gone to K Street.

The White House Council on Environmental Quality will give the public more time to comment on its proposed update to guidance for following one of the nation's bedrock environmental laws.