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Flash floods caused two deaths in separate incidents in Arizona yesterday as heavy rains prompted flood warnings across the Southwest.

The federal government could potentially save hundreds of millions of dollars if it reduced the premium subsidies to crop insurance, the Government Accountability Office found yesterday.

The 15-minute fireworks display at a wedding held on the Long Island Sound last July might have cost $100,000, but the security, courtesy of the Coast Guard, was complimentary.

Government is lagging behind the private sector in digital customer service, the Partnership for Public Service said in a report released yesterday.

A key voluntary U.S. EPA program to let manufacturers tout safer chemicals in consumer products needs to be updated because it is confusing to customers, the agency's inspector general said in a new report.

Workers shut down PSEG Nuclear's Hope Creek power plant in New Jersey on Friday after they could not determine the source of an unexplained noise.

Japan is considering floating power plants to avoid earthquakes and resulting tsunamis like the one that caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011.

More than half the bird species in the United States and Canada face severe decreases in population by 2080 if the world maintains the current pace of global warming, according to a study released yesterday by the National Audubon Society.

Burning wood for energy could yield some big benefits for mitigating climate change in the long run, the Society of American Foresters says in a recent paper, offering scientific support to back a long-standing claim from the forestry industry.

Federal appellate judges yesterday denied a request from environmental groups to rehear their challenge to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's approval of a new natural gas pipeline into New York City.

Conservationists yesterday sued the Fish and Wildlife Service and State Department for refusing to turn over documents underpinning their environmental assessment of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

A federal judge has dismissed an environmental group's lawsuit seeking to establish logging road runoff as an industrial source of water pollution that requires a Clean Water Act permit, bringing an end to litigation that reached the Supreme Court in 2012.

Government watchdogs sued U.S. EPA today to tighten its dust rules, arguing that current standards failed to protect rescue workers from long-term health impacts after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Ambre Energy Ltd. and the state of Wyoming are challenging the Oregon Department of State Lands' decision to deny a key permit for a coal export terminal project along the Columbia River.

A baby orca found in Washington's Puget Sound has researchers cheering.

A 64-year-old hiker missing in Washington state's Olympic National Park since Thursday strolled into a ranger station safe and well yesterday before helicopter and search crews managed to track him down.

In an effort to save game fish, Ernest Hemingway's grandsons traveled to Cuba yesterday to encourage the nation's first government-to-government cooperation with the United States since a trade embargo was instituted in 1961 -- the same year Hemingway died.

A new study from the U.S. Geological Survey blames a combination of factors for Pacific walruses' decline between 1981 and 1999, coming as the difficult-to-study animal is under consideration for Endangered Species Act protections.

Gusting winds sent plumes of smoke over Yosemite National Park on Sunday, prompting the National Park Service to evacuate 85 hikers by helicopter to escape the fast-moving blaze.

The best way to stop future wildfires in the boreal forest may be to have one, according to new research that could have implications for sustainable logging practices as well as showing governments where to focus firefighting efforts.

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