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Monsanto Co. on Monday said it would launch a global research center in Mexico to look into creating new hybrid and genetically modified corn strains.

Indonesian authorities have made their first arrests of traders attempting to sell manta rays after the country put new laws into place creating the world's biggest manta ray sanctuary.

Halfway to the mailbox, Helen Zumbaum spotted something unusual in the grass.

California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) yesterday vetoed a bill that aimed to reduce the use of antibiotics in the livestock industry, calling on lawmakers to find "new and effective ways" to address the problem.

Idaho taxpayers are paying the legal team working on the state's far-fetched attempt to take over federal lands within its borders $420 an hour, according to documents obtained by the Spokane Spokesman-Review under the Idaho Public Records Act.

Miami officials voted yesterday to seek a $10 million special bond issue to clean up six contaminated parks, the site of an old incinerator and other public land.

Cleanup crews are working to contain the spread of toxic chemicals after a large fire destroyed a manufacturing building in Seattle.

Several industry groups have asked U.S. EPA to extend into 2015 the public comment period for its initiative to modernize a program meant to provide information to emergency response groups to prevent a chemical disaster.

Makers of personal care products want to woo consumers with new skin creams they claim can prevent air pollution's effect on the skin -- including signs of aging, dark spots and inflammation.

Park officials at Grand Canyon National Park created water stations for visitors partly in an effort to reduce waste from plastic bottles, but the convenient watering holes have attracted unwanted attention from elk.

North American industrial facilities reported an overall 14 percent increase in pollution discharges to air, land and water between 2005 and 2010, according to a report released today by an intergovernmental organization.

The Department of Energy yesterday restored the Bonneville Power Administration's authority over hiring decisions, which the government took away more than a year ago following a hiring scandal.

The Department of Energy's inspector general has called for "immediate action" at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico over its handling of nuclear waste.

More than nine years after Southeast Louisiana was pummeled by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, more than a third of the funding sent to help the state prepare for future disasters has yet to be spent, according to a report released today by the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general.

Seattle-based energy development company Summit Power Group LLC announced this morning it has tapped former General Electric Co. executive Jason Crew to be its new CEO.

The premature closure of six struggling reactors in Illinois -- under pressure from cheap gas and wind -- would trigger an uptick in greenhouse gas emissions, damage the local economy and force the state to rely on more costly gas, the U.S. nuclear industry warned today.

A Canadian energy company swapped video games' typical guns and ammo for a flame-resistant suit and a company hard hat in a new game that lets players build and inspect their own pipeline.

An Idaho-based energy company and its Alaskan offshoot have asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission if it can investigate the feasibility of building a dam on Alaska's Talkeetna River.

A public utility district in Washington state will likely scrap what would have been the West Coast's first tidal-energy project due to unforeseen costs.

Dominion Virginia Power shut down its North Anna power plant after discovering two damaged nuclear fuel rods, a spokesman said yesterday.

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