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Ten percent of 74 Chinese cities monitored by the Ministry of Environmental Protection met national air pollution standards in 2014, according to officials today.

Political observers and participants in Texas are worried a compromise that led to $2 billion in water projects is giving way to age-old confrontation.

No one knows the extent of California's drought as well as Felicia Marcus, chairwoman of the State Water Resources Control Board.

Two companies at a northeast Columbus, Ohio, industrial park operated for decades without proper permits, and Ohio's EPA didn't notice the sites until someone complained.

Oregon's plan to curb coastal pollution from logging, agriculture and stormwater runoff was not good enough for federal regulators, who rejected the plan Friday.

A goat herder is offering up her flock to help solve a problem eating away at federal officials at the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge in Colorado.

California saw a 50 percent jump in the amount of toxic chemicals released in the state in 2013, largely because of a surge in activity at a Kern County hazardous waste landfill.

Toledo, Ohio, Mayor Michael Collins, who managed an algae bloom that shut off residents' water last year, is in critical condition at a hospital intensive care unit after suffering a heart attack.

Conservationists are urging California to stop allowing oil and gas wastewater to be injected back into underground aquifers, some suitable for drinking water, as farmers and residents raise concerns about future contamination.

A year ago Sunday, a ruptured drainage pipe triggered the nation's third-largest coal ash spill into North Carolina's Dan River, and regulators still aren't sure how much to fine Duke Energy Corp., the company responsible.

A Michigan mining company has ordered 35 of the new Ford F-150 trucks after testing the aluminum-body vehicles for the automaker three years ago.

Freight railroads will plow a record $29 billion this year into track upgrades, equipment purchases and other improvements to the rail system, the industry's main trade group said in a forecast released this morning. The handful of large "Class I" freight railroads also expect to hire about 15,000 employees, although at least some of that will be to replace current workers who retire or leave for other reasons, according to the projections from the Association of American Railroads (AAR). Last year, net employment at those companies rose by almost 5 percent to more than 170,000, the organization said.

The Commerce Department's inspector general has initiated a new review of weather satellites, responding to a congressional request for more information on the program's ground infrastructure.

The Interior Department has asked a federal judge to dismiss a bid by environmental groups and a Microsoft co-founder to force the agency to consider climate change in leasing federal coal.

A bird that is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act should have its federal protections stripped, according to a new study published in The Condor, an ornithological journal.

The Obama administration Friday announced it is raising the fee to graze livestock on public lands for the first time in a decade.

Former Alaska Sen. Mark Begich's (D) new consulting firm has been hired by a health care trade organization and an Alaska airline.

A majority of Republicans support government action to combat climate change, according to a poll conducted by the New York Times, Stanford University and Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan environmental research group.

A host of federal agencies is putting the finishing touches on comments related to the State Department's review of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.

John Kotek, a recent appointment to the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy, could be in line to replace Pete Lyons, the administration's top official on nuclear energy, who's rumored to be stepping down as early as this spring, according to sources.

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