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California regulators ordered the operator of a battery-recycling plant in Vernon, Calif., to pay to clean up homes and yards contaminated by the facility.

Climate change has increased levels of an ozone-damaging chemical in the atmosphere, according to a study published in Nature yesterday.

BMW AG has developed street lights fitted with sockets to charge electric cars in an effort to make the vehicles more convenient to own.

Wyoming uranium producers are optimistic that product demands in China, Russia and India will create a resurgence for the industry that has been in a lull since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011.

The Agriculture Department has approved sales of a genetically engineered potato less likely to bruise and produce the chemical acrylamide, which has been linked to cancer in rodents. The agency is also deregulating a new type of alfalfa genetically engineered to produce lower levels of lignin, a tough, fibrous material that slows digestion in cattle.

The Agriculture Department is rolling out a new insurance policy that will benefit small, organic farmers with a diverse set of crops.

U.S. EPA has declined to ban the use of a pesticide in pet flea collars, rejecting a petition from the Natural Resources Defense Council to restrict the chemical, which the group says humans are exposed to through contact with their animals.

In mid-June, after lawmakers excoriated her agency for failing to get along with its Office of Inspector General, U.S. EPA chief Gina McCarthy penned a memo in hopes of ending the turf war that started it all.

A solar eclipse in March 2015 will likely have heavy impacts on Europe's electrical grid, said French power grid RTE today.

Officials from North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia met with federal regulators and groups funded by oil and gas companies yesterday in a discussion closed to environmentalists and reporters.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration has been analyzing the effects of U.S. EPA's power sector greenhouse gas regulations and hopes to be able to publish its findings by early next year, EIA Administrator Adam Sieminski said today.

A Michigan man accused of selling bear meat and organs to undercover investigators has been arrested, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources said yesterday.

A federal appeals court today revived Alaska's challenge to the Forest Service's 2001 policy aimed at conserving more than 58 million acres of national forests.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals yesterday decried a Discovery Channel show debuting next month depicting an anaconda swallowing a filmmaker.

Proposed power line routes are the latest encroachment on Texas' native prairies, according to Houston-area conservationists.

After moving 185,000 artifacts from the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument to a climate-controlled National Parks Service facility in Tucson, Ariz., monument staff members are now trying to bring back the historical treasures by building a new visitor center.

Oyster farming is booming in the Chesapeake Bay, but not everyone in the region dominated by fishermen and crabbers is a fan of aquaculture.

The Fish and Wildlife Service opened a public comment period yesterday for two permits allowing the import of black rhinoceros trophies from Namibia amid an emotional debate about hunting's role in the conservation of critically endangered species.

Citing recent internal reports obtained via an open records request, a regulatory watchdog group alleged yesterday that mismanagement by the Department of Agriculture is putting at risk a threatened wetland region that's home to nearly half of the nation's migratory birds.

Breaking news, documentaries, blogs and other forms of journalism are not "commercial" endeavors and will require no permits or fees in wilderness areas, Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell said this week.

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