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The Chesapeake Bay's "dead zone" is back above normal size, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources said, bringing bad news for the water body's crabs, fish and oysters.

The Fish and Wildlife Service, acknowledging that bat-killing white-nose syndrome has "spread rapidly" in the past seven years, announced late yesterday the awarding of nearly $1.3 million in grants to help wildlife officials in 30 states monitor, detect and respond to the disease.

A coalition of environmental groups today called for federal protection for the monarch butterfly, contending that the rise of genetically modified crops has turned into a threat for the insect.

Amid rising complaints from hikers, sightseers and photographers, and at least one horrific death, the Bureau of Land Management yesterday proposed a two-year ban on roped activities at two iconic rock formations in eastern Utah.

Environmental groups filed two lawsuits late last week in an attempt to block the Obama administration's decision to allow new old-growth logging in Alaska's Tongass National Forest.

The House Agriculture Committee's ranking member, Rep. Collin Peterson, has hired three new staff members.

Seventeen candidates will square off this week in the primary race for president of the Navajo Nation, a post that carries heavy influence on the nation's largest American Indian reservation.

The Agriculture Department is sending two top officials to the Los Angeles area today to discuss ways to enhance recreation and protection at the San Gabriel Mountains, stirring hope among conservationists that President Obama might make it a national monument.

A legislative bid to stop California from adding motor fuels to its landmark cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions is dead for the year.

Federal appellate judges ruled today that environmentalists' challenge to an Interior Department decision that would allow coal mining at the site of a historic 1921 coal miner uprising in West Virginia should be allowed to go forward.

Attorneys general from 13 states yesterday demanded that U.S. EPA withdraw its proposed rules for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants for allegedly failing to disclose information required by the Clean Air Act.

The interagency working group established by the Obama administration to estimate the social cost of carbon used an open approach that relied on consensus-based decisions, according to a review done at the behest of Republican lawmakers.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission today finalized a high-profile waste rule and ended a two-year suspension on final licensing decisions, a move with direct implications for projects in Pennsylvania and Maryland.

The former FBI director investigating fraud in BP PLC's Gulf of Mexico oil spill settlement fund was seriously injured Monday in a one-car accident in Vermont.

More than 40 percent of the world's garbage is burned, and it's filling the air with more toxic pollution than governments are reporting, according to a study published yesterday.

North Carolina regulators took steps yesterday to fine Duke Energy for failing to prevent pollution from entering the groundwater at a pair of coal ash dumps outside Wilmington, N.C.

With salt prices high, the upcoming winter could be costly for state transportation departments.

A train carrying liquefied petroleum gas derailed yesterday in central Canada, local officials said.

The Federal Highway Administration is lagging in implementation of key provisions of a 2-year-old law intended to bolster bridge safety, according to an audit released yesterday by the Department of Transportation's inspector general.

Texas legislators are working to ensure that rural counties hit by an influx of truck traffic fueled by the oil and gas drilling boom receive some of the $1.7 billion the state will have to spend if voters approve a statewide referendum in November.

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