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A controversial physician accused in Washington state of failing to disclose his ties to the chemical industry testified three times against legislation in Alaska that would have prevented toxic chemicals from being used as flame retardants.

A state legislative committee in Kansas has voted to repeal the state's endangered species law.

New Mexico has blocked two companies from searching a contaminated landfill for a rumored cache of 1980s video games.

Houston officials are considering eliminating a long-standing rule that requires residents to separate recycling from trash.

Los Alamos National Laboratory will shift its growing backlog of nuclear waste to Texas while a cleanup continues at the New Mexico repository that normally would receive the materials.

North Dakota will foot the bill for the cleanup of radioactive oil field waste that was illegally dumped in an abandoned building in the northwest corner of the state.

Several community organizations are pushing Pennsylvania regulators to crack down on an Allegheny County, Pa., coke plant.

California's 2nd District Court of Appeal yesterday restored a permit issued by the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife that granted a planned community of 60,000 residents north of Los Angeles permission to alter the course of a wild river.

The North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources yesterday accused Duke Energy Corp. of illegally dumping more than 60 million gallons of wastewater into a tributary of the Cape Fear River near Raleigh.

Almost five years after Louisiana publicly passed up a chance to get some $300 million in federal money to restart passenger rail service between the state's two largest cities, backers of the idea are regrouping around a scaled-back version of the earlier plan.

New technology is allowing wind energy developers to build taller turbines with longer blades, opening new territories to wind farms.

A Mobile, Ala., commission yesterday approved a controversial coal terminal opposed by local environmentalists.

A California utility has agreed to pay $24.5 million for safety failings tied to a power outage affecting more than 440,000 customers and downed equipment that electrocuted three members of a family.

Police are charging a former land trust executive with larceny after arresting him and 20 others over $21,000 in missing funds.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. urged BP PLC to deepen the Macondo well weeks before it exploded and caused the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, new emails show.

Influential scientists say the Australian government should allow certain animals to become extinct to focus conservation efforts on giving others a fighting chance of survival in the face of the dramatic ongoing species loss.

An elderly Navajo woman is her family's last link to the Wupatki National Monument.

Conservationists say the world's rarest gorilla could be saved with a $10.5 million action plan.

Musicians, antiques dealers and gun collectors are among those protesting strict new ivory rules aimed at increasing the protection of endangered elephants.

An American Indian tribe in New Mexico is using new, nontraditional farming methods to combat the effects of drought and climate change.

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