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South Carolina lawmakers yesterday approved a bill that would limit the public's ability to file lawsuits over pollution.

Space shuttle launches from Florida's Kennedy Space Center spewed thousands of pounds of contaminants into a wildlife refuge that is home to sea turtles, alligators and other endangered species, scientists say.

NEW YORK -- Enacting the nation's first microbead ban has become New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's pet project.

Two coal companies have stopped using the chemical that contaminated West Virginia's water supply earlier this year.

Investigators are looking into signs of a "miscommunication" between rescue workers after a deadly mining accident in West Virginia this week.

The ongoing controversy over whether to allow drilling in northwest Colorado's pristine Thompson Divide has drawn the full attention of the national oil and natural gas industry.

Park officials say they have tracked down two suspects accused of redwood slashing and burl poaching in California. According to the allegations, the men chopped bark off the massive trees to sell for decorative wood products at a Del Norte County, Calif., shop.

Fourteen years after being sued for allegedly abusing elephants, the producers of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus have recieved a $15.75 million settlement from animal rights groups.

Lake Erie will experience more large toxic algae blooms as heavy rainfall washes phosphorous from farms and other sources into the water, experts say.

A wildfire spread to 21 acres of Alaskan forest yesterday, and in California, two teens were accused of setting brush fires as numerous larger blazes tore through San Diego County.

Two populations of grizzly bears in Montana have recovered enough that the head of the state's wildlife agency expects they will be removed from the endangered species list in the next couple of years.

The federal Bureau of Land Management will probably round up most or all of the wild horses from a West Desert area of Utah land in July as part of a plan to remove 200 mustangs from Utah ranges this year.

Experts are calling for an end to "frontier mentality" when it comes to managing the world's deep oceans and seafloors.

Federal and California officials have launched a voluntary water initiative in order to save endangered salmon as the drought stretches on in the Golden State.

Three months after announcing a ban on commercial ivory, the Fish and Wildlife Service is adding an exception to the rule -- for musicians.

The president of the Environmental Working Group is set to be honored at an event this evening to support environmental health research.

U.S. EPA hasn't applied the same procedures in handling Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in its offices at its headquarters and across the country, according to an EPA inspector general report released today.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said she plans to fast-track drought legislation for California and blamed environmentalists for failing to produce meaningful plans to address the state's water woes.

Congress is attempting to make some of the first substantive changes in decades to the Clean Water Act's revolving loan program as part of a deal to create a new water infrastructure financing program in the House-Senate conference report to a major water resources bill unveiled yesterday.

A veteran Interior Department official has taken the helm of the bureau that oversees development of oil and gas, renewable energy, and sand and gravel on roughly 1.7 billion acres of federal waters.

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