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The Army Corps of Engineers is being strategic in the way it releases polluted water from Lake Okeechobee starting today, but residents are worried about a repeat of 2016's toxic algal blooms.

Apple said today it has established a fund to invest nearly $300 million over the next four years to connect its Chinese suppliers to renewable energy as Beijing pushes an anti-pollution drive.

Most of the board of directors of Puerto Rico's troubled electric utility resigned yesterday instead of meeting demands from the island's governor to reduce the new CEO's salary.

Accused of starting the second-largest Colorado wildfire ever recorded, a Danish citizen was charged yesterday with 141 counts of first-degree arson. That's one for every building burned.

A jury in a Missouri circuit court yesterday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $4.69 billion to women who said its talcum powder products caused ovarian cancer.

The National Parks Conservation Association and two other groups have filed a lawsuit challenging a permit issued by North Dakota that helps clear the path for construction of an oil refinery less than 3 miles from Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

In a warehouse on the outskirts of Denver lie gruesome relics of the illegal wildlife trade.

Scientists in Louisiana reached a milestone this year: Five endangered whooping crane chicks were born in the wild.

The lesser prairie chicken population has grown by thousands in five Western states, but endangered species activists say it's not enough.

A judge has ruled that environmental groups seeking to block a Canadian mining company's gold exploration on private land near Yellowstone National Park did not follow proper procedure in challenging Montana law.

A flash flood through a famous gorge off the Grand Canyon in Arizona sent tourists rushing for high ground yesterday.

Following their release from federal prison this week, father-and-son ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond returned home to Oregon intent on getting back to their former lives — and that could include grazing the family's cattle on federal lands.

A U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan has pledged to donate $500,000 to Elon Musk's plan for addressing lead contamination in Flint homes.

A fight over one word in the nation's biofuel blending law may be getting new life — and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh can take some of the credit.

Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) says she will vote against Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.

Top Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee want an update from acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler on agency efforts to overhaul the grant-making process that hands out billions of dollars annually.

The top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is asking Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) to subpoena EPA and release documents about the agency's handling of public records requests under former Administrator Scott Pruitt.

The Senate yesterday confirmed Emory Rounds to be director of the Office of Government Ethics, a year after the last chief resigned over disagreements with the White House.

The House today approved a regulatory reform bill that supporters say will rein in the federal government's issuance of unfunded rules and regulations that impose a significant economic burden on states, local and tribal governments, and businesses.

Neil Chatterjee doesn't like it when people refer to him as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's "coal guy" on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

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