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Researchers say they have found intersex fish in three Pennsylvania rivers, a signal the sites may be contaminated with chemicals and other pollution.

A group of miners yesterday illegally dredged an Idaho river for gold in a protest over federal oversight.

U.S. EPA is proposing to tighten air standards for facilities that store and treat wastes, used oil and used solvents.

Seed companies with operations in Hawaii say millions of dollars of tax money and more than 500 jobs could be lost if a proposal in Maui County to suspend the cultivation of genetically modified organisms succeeds.

A solar panel maker has asked the federal government to investigate claims that it was hacked by Chinese operatives during a trade dispute with China in 2012.

A small ethanol plant in Iowa yesterday began producing the Midwest's first commercial-scale gallons of cellulosic ethanol.

Inefficient technology is causing the world's electronic devices to squander enough electricity annually to power the United Kingdom and Norway for a year, according to the International Energy Agency.

Nearly 80,000 acres in Maryland will be auctioned for offshore wind development in August, federal and state officials announced today.

Wild horse advocates yesterday dropped a federal lawsuit after the Fish and Wildlife Service ended its contract with an operator accused of selling wild mustangs for slaughter.

Environmentalists are threatening to sue Duke Energy Corp. over pollution from coal ash ponds at three retired North Carolina power plants.

Two years and 36 tests later, the first peer-reviewed study of Bigfoot, yeti and other "anomalous primates" doesn't bode well for the believers.

Heavy equipment rolling along the beaches of Texas' Gulf Coast to clear unusually large piles of seaweed could be killing endangered sea turtles, scientists and turtle advocates say.

The National Marine Fisheries Service this week will finalize protections for four populations of the scalloped hammerhead shark under the Endangered Species Act.

Some of the world's tallest rainforests have been battered for years by pulp mills and palm oil plantations.

Many problems in tropical coastal waters might be solved by applying zoning rules similar to those on land, according to a study released today.

California water managers are poised to decide today whether to take emergency action to stop farms and businesses from diverting rivers and streams, as the state enters summer during a prolonged drought.

President Obama's senior advisers on climate change, energy and the environment are taking home $100,000 or more in annual salary.

U.S. EPA will give commenters in four cities an additional day at the end of this month to make statements for or against its proposal for existing power plants.

A Nevada utilities regulator has been nominated to lead an advisory committee critical to the development of a voluntary "real time" energy market expected to launch this fall to allow Western states to share electricity resources.

As lawmakers grapple with their latest budgetary standoff -- this one over how to keep the Highway Trust Fund solvent -- they are getting increasing pressure from state governors, state transportation chiefs and road builders, who are stressing the urgency of a fix.

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