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Microscopic sea creatures use an everyday vitamin to break down polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins and other harmful substances, according to a researcher at the University of Manchester who has spent 15 years studying the issue.

Two Louisiana water inspectors were given 24 hours yesterday to surrender to police on charges of lying and falsifying information about a public water system that was infected with a brain-eating amoeba.

Texas' Commission on Environmental Quality is working hard to fight tougher federal ozone standards on air pollution, even as most of the scientific community contends a lower ozone limit would protect residents' health.

Greens are marking the 42nd anniversary of the nation's foremost water law with a report today celebrating its successes and calling for firmer protections through a controversial regulatory proposal from U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers.

While organic foods must meet strict standards, few rules exist for other products that claim to be organic, which can create confusion for consumers.

A year after one of the United States' largest-ever onshore oil spills flooded his wheat field with nearly a million gallons of crude, North Dakota farmer Steve Jensen has grown accustomed to Tesoro Corp.'s 24/7 cleanup.

A major oil and gas trade group expressed support yesterday for the Forest Service's proposal to prohibit surface drilling on northeast Colorado's Pawnee National Grassland, as long as there are exemptions for minerals that cannot be reached from private tracts.

The Energy Department will build four high-speed trans-Atlantic links to European scientific hot spots to gain "ultra-fast" access to data, the agency announced today.

A Utah man who stole a 190-million-year-old dinosaur footprint was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay $15,000 in restitution, a U.S. district judge ruled yesterday.

Federal judges yesterday denied a New York town's request to reconsider a ruling that upheld the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's approval of a compression station.

A California climber died Sunday after a fall in Zion National Park, officials said.

Hunting is usually forbidden in national parks, but Saturday marked the first day of the annual elk reduction program in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park.

Antidepressants consumed secondhand could be having an increasingly negative effect on bird populations, according to a new study.

The Wyss Foundation is diving into ocean conservation with a pledge to provide $10 million in matching funds to help rebuild fisheries in Peru and Canada.

The Fish and Wildlife Service's decision last summer not to list the American wolverine for protection under the Endangered Species Act has sparked another federal lawsuit, this time from a coalition that includes a hunting group and an ecologist.

A longtime public lands advocate and former Bureau of Land Management state director this week announced her resignation as the National Wildlife Federation's Rocky Mountain regional executive director.

Fish from ocean-based farms can never be organic, and the Department of Agriculture should drop efforts to allow such certification, according to a new report from the Center for Food Safety.

Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer pumped another $15 million into his NextGen Climate PAC in September, although the group remains well short of its goal of spending $100 million to elect candidates this cycle, according to newly filed campaign finance reports.

The National Republican Congressional Committee is out with a new television spot today attacking Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson (D) over his 2009 vote in support of Democrats' energy and climate bill.

National Republicans are pitching in to help Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts (R) in the final weeks of his tight Senate race against independent candidate Greg Orman.

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