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Staff in Washington state's Department of Ecology are at odds with Gov. Jay Inslee's position on ocean acidification.

Gov. Matt Mead (R) looked to Congress yesterday to give management over Wyoming's wolves back to the state after a federal judge returned the authority to federal officials last month.

Warren Anderson, who led Union Carbide Corp. through the aftermath of a poisonous gas leak at the company's Bhopal, India, plant that killed thousands of people in 1984, died last month at a Florida nursing home.

Chemical experts have found that workers exposed to tanker fumes at the Hanford, Wash., nuclear waste site are coming down with health problems.

Water agencies have begun sharing resources to stretch water supplies in many water-depleted Western states.

The Small Business Administration's advocacy office is urging U.S. EPA to scale back proposed standards for reducing refineries' toxic air emissions.

U.S. EPA is planning to roll out a new tool next month to gauge environmental justice concerns in local communities, but some stakeholders are worried that the tool will be limited in its usefulness.

U.S. EPA's homeland security office has a new boss.

The Pentagon is objecting to a proposed wind energy project off the coast of Maryland because the turbines could create a security risk by interfering with operations at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River.

Rerouting a river with an excavator and bulldozer has a Washington state man facing charges of water pollution and damaging the shoreline.

Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East agreed to an outside settlement yesterday with two energy companies it named in a lawsuit over damage to wetlands, according to an attorney representing the authority.

An international research team warned yesterday that a fungal infection already wreaking havoc on European salamander and newt populations could easily continue its global spread if action isn't taken.

A former senior vice president for the National Wildlife Federation Monday will take the reins of Colorado Open Lands, a land trust based in Denver.

States and environmental advocates are starting the long, hard push for getting an extension of abandoned-mine cleanup fees through Congress.

A U.S.-backed proposal to protect Antarctica's Ross Sea failed to gain support this week from an international commission, angering conservation groups, which blamed Russia and China.

The oil and gas industry needs to dig up embarrassing information on environmental groups and their prominent supporters to fuel personal attacks by advocacy groups that don't disclose their donors, a veteran Washington lobbyist said in a secretly recorded conversation.

"I'm not a scientist" -- the latest go-to talking point for Republicans asked about climate change during their campaigns -- could be an increasingly challenging position in the 2016 elections.

The debate over whether to end the crude export ban is going to be won by whichever side convinces policymakers its position will provide more relief to drivers at the gas pump. So it's little surprise that the government's first official attempt at answering that question provoked a flurry of reaction from both sides of the argument yesterday.

Voters have the choice to set aside more than $15.7 billion for conservation in what the Trust for Public Lands believes is one of the most important elections ever for public lands.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott's (R) claim during a debate earlier this month that the state has spent $350 million to protect the environment, including preventing the impacts of sea-level rise, includes some projects with weak connections to the issue.

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