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The city of Tacoma, Wash., has developed a high-tech method to curb water pollution.

A Louisiana swamp tour guide recorded frolicking with alligators in a West Bank swamp has drawn the attention of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.

Until Aug. 30, beauty is on the sides of the trash holder in Sacramento, Calif.

More than half of American drivers say poor road conditions have added wear and tear to their vehicles, while a third report that potholes and other problems have delayed their arrivals at work and appointments, according to the findings of a national poll released yesterday.

The world's top platinum producers have reached the outlines of a deal with union officials to end South Africa's mining strike.

A Nigerian man pleaded guilty this week to hacking into employees' email accounts at U.S. EPA and other agencies in a scam that involved stealing office products to sell them for a profit.

As competition in the residential solar industry heats up, a firm in Las Vegas is turning to drones to help it get an edge over its rivals.

Grocer industry groups are suing Vermont in federal court after the state became the first to pass a law requiring the labeling of food products containing genetically modified organisms.

A New Orleans U.S. District Court judge granted a new trial yesterday to a BP engineer convicted of obstructing justice after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

A teenage Indian rhino in New York will be hard up finding the father of her new calf -- he died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 2004.

A dead minke whale that washed ashore in New Jersey has tested positive for the same virus that has been linked to skyrocketing rates of dolphin strandings along the Eastern Seaboard.

Poaching of African elephants in 2013 decreased from the previous two years, but some populations are still threatened with local extinction, according to international wildlife regulators.

Splitting up plant populations could make them more likely to contract disease, according to a new study that challenges traditional views on how best to protect against pathogens.

Nearly 60 House members this week called on the Securities and Exchange Commission to swiftly complete a rule that would require extractive companies to disclose payments they make to governments.

President Obama's four-year highway, rail and transit funding bill has been formally introduced in the House, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) announced yesterday.

Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.), the chairman of a key energy policy subpanel, introduced legislation yesterday that would remove the corn ethanol requirement of the federal renewable fuel standard and mandate that all biofuels in the standard come from domestic sources.

Virginia 7th District candidates vying to replace outgoing House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R) have a thin record of policies and donations but have given clues to their priorities and intentions.

A federal appeals court today rejected a challenge from environmentalists and public health advocates to a U.S. EPA guidance memo on air pollution that drifts across state lines.

The Obama administration today kicked off a three-year planning process to decide which areas of the outer continental shelf to lease for oil and gas drilling beginning in 2017.

The impending promotion to House majority leader for Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the California Republican with a moderate reputation on energy policy who represents one of the windiest districts in the country, would at first seem like good news for clean energy supporters hoping to extend a key renewable electricity tax break at the end of this year.

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