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The interstate agency protecting and planning for growth in the Columbia River Gorge will not get a budget bump after Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) failed to match Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber's (D) proposed increase.

Lab tests show that a pesticide killed more than two dozen crows in downtown Portland, Ore., but authorities say they aren't sure whether the crows were poisoned on purpose.

Michael Dourson's nonprofit consulting firm, Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment, or TERA, is a one-stop science shop that performs some of the same processes U.S. EPA tries to do to evaluate the safety of chemicals -- only faster, and sometimes, with results more favorable to the chemical industry.

Records released by Harris County, Texas, investigators show that DuPont Co. employees at the company's La Porte chemical plant responded frantically to a chemical leak last month.

U.S. EPA has made changes to a pesticide labeling rule to correct an administrative error made early last year.

U.S. EPA will fine 55 companies a combined $213,171 for failing to use required lead abatement techniques during renovation, repair and painting operations, the agency said today.

The toxic legacy of DDT is forcing one Michigan town to look for a new drinking water supply.

A February radioactive leak at a Department of Energy facility in Carlsbad, N.M., has been deemed relatively harmless, according to a group of independent researchers.

Trains along one Amtrak long-distance route failed to arrive on time at their final destinations even once in October as the passenger railroad continues to battle rampant tardiness across its long-distance network, newly released figures show.

Those looking to find unorthodox holiday presents for friends and relatives might want to try the gift shops of federal agencies.

Federal officials yesterday confirmed the second breach this year at a large firm handling national security background checks for federal employees.

Los Alamos National Laboratory has been running late on several tests for the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile, according to the Department of Energy's inspector general.

New research by a University of California, Berkeley, doctoral candidate shows a relationship between activities that make people happy and energy savings.

The Interior Department's Office of Natural Resources Revenue today announced new proposed rules meant to protect taxpayers during the leasing of federal coal to mining companies.

An environmental watchdog group is questioning the "green lumber" bona fides of Plum Creek Timberlands.

Birds fled an area of Appalachia days before dozens of tornadoes ravaged the region in April, according to new research data.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell's visit to California wine country today is a chance for proponents to ask President Obama to use his presidential powers to create a 350,000-acre national monument nearby after a failed congressional bid to turn the land into a national conservation area.

Tucked into the sweeping public lands package that passed as part of the fiscal 2015 defense authorization bill is language that will shift management of a preserve in New Mexico.

Mississippi has finished cleaning up its roster of abandoned coal mines, the federal Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement said yesterday.

The National Park Service announced plans today to return a Native American totem pole taken by silent film star John Barrymore to the Henya Tlingit people of Klawock, Alaska.

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