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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) is introducing a 15-point plan today that would significantly boost recycling efforts.

More of the nation's largest chain restaurants are switching to paper cups instead of the cheaper but more environmentally damaging foam variety.

Views of cherry blossoms were marred by piles of garbage left behind by the thousands who visited the National Cherry Blossom Festival this weekend in Washington, D.C.

Visitors to the glitzy Las Vegas strip would never know the area was struggling with a severe water shortage.

The location of a stormproof waterfront restroom in New York City has turned into a test of Mayor Bill de Blasio's (D) promise to address income inequality.

There's still a gender pay gap in the federal government.

The controversy over Lisa Jackson's alias email account continues, more than a year after she left her post as U.S. EPA chief.

Pesticide manufacturers and agriculture interests are asking for more time to respond to new proposed federal safety standards for farmworkers who handle and apply their products.

In its quest to supply a new central Oregon data center with renewable energy, Apple Inc. has purchased a small nearby hydroelectric power project.

China is buying a Glencore Xstrata PLC mine in Peru for at least $5.85 billion in one of the Asian country's largest acquisitions of mining assets.

A mostly abandoned Detroit neighborhood is partly the consequence of Canadian oil development.

Critics of the Keystone XL pipeline have etched an 80-acre message of protest into a Nebraska farm.

Three reservoirs near a federal nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico have tested negative for radiation following a leak at the plant earlier this year, researchers said Saturday.

The Energy Department has proposed a new energy efficiency standard for recessed lighting and overhead lamps at hospitals, offices and schools that make up more than 5 percent of the total U.S. electricity consumption.

Nearly 550 groups from 40 nations today urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to quickly complete a rule that would require oil, gas and mining companies to disclose payments to governments.

The proposed closure of a 1920s natural gas pipeline that runs across eastern Louisiana for safety reasons has drawn the ire of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee's new chairwoman and her colleagues.

The world needs to ramp up the ambition of its greenhouse gas reduction goals -- and do so quickly -- if it is to avoid the worst effects of global warming, a U.N. panel of experts warned yesterday.

Federal judges appeared torn this morning about whether an appeal from thousands of Ecuadoreans who are seeking damages for herbicides that were sprayed as part as of an anti-narcotic campaign in nearby Colombia should be allowed to move forward.

There will be some pain at the grill this summer.

In a bid to focus conservation efforts where they're needed most, scientists from the Zoological Society of London and Yale University on Friday released a list of the world's 100 most unusual and endangered birds.

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