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A pending Delaware bill would relax rules for driving vehicles on some beaches, raising the ire of fishermen who fear it will scare away their potential catch.

Colorado's Supreme Court has barred a ballot proposal seeking to create a right to clean water, clean air and natural resources because a substitute sat in on a state hearing for the measure.

A state law taking effect today will let the California Coastal Commission fine people who block public access to beaches.

Lead exposure may cause depression and other health problems in children, according to a new study by University of Pennsylvania researchers.

California officials are planning to jump-start a Los Angeles County section of the state's proposed bullet train project.

The Department of Transportation will cut road-building reimbursements to states starting next month if Congress fails to move before then to avert a cash crunch in the Highway Trust Fund, Secretary Anthony Foxx announced today.

Crews continue to pull an oillike substance from a New Jersey lake while state environment watchdogs search for its origin.

Some state officials in the Great Lakes region are pushing back against a U.S. EPA plan to lower the threshold at which they must warn the public of contaminated beach water, saying it will hurt tourism and unnecessarily alarm visitors.

Environmentalists have asked a federal court to review U.S. EPA's approval of a plan by Pennsylvania to reduce poor visibility in public lands.

Greenpeace is urging the toymaker Lego to end its partnership with Royal Dutch Shell PLC, whose logo appears on some of the toymaker's iconic plastic bricks.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has selected longtime agency official Bill Dean to take the helm of its Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, a division that oversees the nation's 100 operating reactors.

A report last week by the Congressional Budget Office linking the federal biofuel mandate to higher gas prices is stoking the fire in the debate over the policy's future.

The Energy Department today announced a $150 million conditional loan guarantee for the Cape Wind project, a strong signal that the almost 15-year quest to build the first commercial offshore wind farm may soon cross the finish line.

Coal mining companies and lobbing groups are denouncing possible Bureau of Land Management regulations to control releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

Five environmental groups have sued the state of Idaho in an effort to protect the threatened Canada lynx from being inadvertently caught in recreational traps.

The state of Alaska has backed King Cove's legal bid to force the Interior Department to approve a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.

A federal appeals court today rejected a challenge from environmentalists and Jersey City, N.J., to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's approval of a new natural gas pipeline into New York City.

The Supreme Court today took up a high-profile dispute over whether federal law shields energy companies that engage in natural gas market manipulation from state-level antitrust lawsuits.

The number 19 was everywhere in Prescott, Ariz., as residents honored each of the Arizona firefighters who were killed a year ago yesterday protecting the nearby community of Yarnell.

Scientists fear they've lost a yearslong fight against the emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle that is killing off ash trees across North America.

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