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Walter Cottle Lester received multimillion-dollar offers to sell off the 300 acres he owned at the southern end of San Jose, Calif. But he had a different vision for his land.

California's ongoing drought has prevented coho salmon from following their regular migratory routes.

The Fish and Wildlife Service today released a proposed update to its recovery plan for what it considers the most endangered amphibian in North America.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today announced plans to introduce legislation that would tighten oversight and inspection of chemical storage and aboveground storage facilities in the aftermath of a chemical spill that left 300,000 people in her home state without tap water for days.

Congressional Democrats should have pushed renewable energy legislation instead of a cap-and-trade bill when they controlled Capitol Hill in President Obama's first term, a Democratic senator told a Washington, D.C., ballroom packed with labor and environmental advocates today.

John Beale is now inmate No. 33005-016 at a federal prison in Cumberland, Md.

U.S. EPA conducted fewer inspections and pursued fewer civil and criminal cases in 2013, resulting in a sharp decrease in the amount of pollution reduced through enforcement actions, according to newly released data.

U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers pressed federal appellate judges today to reverse lower court rulings that effectively threw out significant portions of the Obama administration's policies for mountaintop-removal coal mining.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- A top aide to billionaire activist Tom Steyer hatched the idea for his Risky Business strategy to measure the costs of inaction on climate change, a move those who know her say is only the latest way she's helped write the script on environmental action in the United States.

With the solar industry seeing record growth in production last year, which states led the country in solar employment? During today's OnPoint, Andrea Luecke, executive director of the Solar Foundation, discusses her group's new jobs census report and talks about the policy and economic drivers affecting employment in the solar industry.

Shuttered gold mines around Johannesburg in South Africa are causing unprecedented levels of uranium pollution in the area, according to local scientists.

China's main environmental agency stepped up enforcement last year by vetoing billions of dollars' worth of new energy projects as the country continues its uphill battle to reverse decades of industrial pollution and relaxed oversight, according to a state official.

Kraft Foods Group Inc. said it will remove artificial preservatives from its Kraft Singles individually wrapped cheese slices and will use a natural preservative instead.

Two explosions at a New Hampshire ball bearing plant yesterday afternoon sent 13 people to area hospitals, including two with life-threatening injuries.

A chemical storage company has removed petroleum coke and coal from a site along the Detroit River that drew the ire of local residents, but the company says it now plans to store other products there.

U.S. EPA has boosted its efforts to identify and regulate contaminants in water systems since a harshly critical 2011 government watchdog assessment, but additional steps are needed that may require congressional action, a new Government Accountability Office report says.

New York could become the first state to ban personal care products containing tiny plastic orbs found in exfoliating soaps and facial scrubs.

Marion Loomis, the chief of one of Wyoming's most influential mining interest groups, will retire this year after more than two decades in charge, ending a career in which he nurtured and defended the state's vast minerals extraction sector.

U.S. trade officials are launching a second challenge to Indian regulations that require solar developers to use Indian-made solar panels on renewable energy projects in the country.

Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals Inc. is aiming to take over the owner of a proposed $1.2 billion copper project located southeast of Tucson, Ariz.

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