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With sightings of black bears in suburban neighborhoods becoming increasingly frequent, Florida is considering lifting its 20-year ban on black bear hunts.

Colorado's Republican-controlled Senate could vote as early as today on legislation rolling back the state's renewable energy requirements.

Wisconsin environmentalists are sounding the alarm about Republican Gov. Scott Walker's fiscal 2016 budget, which they say would strip the Department of Natural Resources of virtually all authority.

The U.S. military will start destroying its largest remaining cache of chemical weapons next month as part of a plan to comply with a 1997 treaty banning the technology.

The Chesapeake Bay is slowly recovering from pollution and overfishing but is still threatened by rising sea levels, warmer waters and urban development, according to a report released yesterday.

Voluntary strategies used in the Midwest don't do enough to remove nutrients from fertilizers that fuel the "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a new study.

U.S. EPA announced plans yesterday to monitor air pollution at a crowded U.S.-Mexico border crossing, the Western Hemisphere's busiest land port.

Nine environmental groups yesterday threatened to file a lawsuit against U.S. EPA alleging that the agency failed to complete required reviews of air toxics standards for more than 30 industry categories.

Federal investigators are on their way to New York today to investigate a Metro-North Railroad crash that killed five passengers and the driver of an SUV and injured a dozen passengers last night.

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Employees in U.S. EPA's inspector general office have been failing to comply with the agency's overtime policies, according to a new report.

The potential national ramifications of an ongoing legal fight between North Dakota and Minnesota has attracted opinions from dozens of attorneys and groups to either side of the debate over Minnesota's ban on utilities importing electricity generated from coal.

Nitrogen gas may be key to producing cost-competitive cellulosic ethanol, according to a new study by Indiana University researchers.

The Energy Department today unveiled a proposed rule to boost efficiency standards for commercial warm air furnaces that it said would save consumers almost $3 billion before 2050.

A New York judge has ruled that Entergy Corp. cannot halt state hearings on plans to stop production at the company's Indian Point nuclear plant during the part of summer to protect Hudson River fish.

A federal court's decision to classify manure as solid waste in a Washington state water pollution case could set a precedent for other states, several heads of state agriculture departments warned today.

In an effort to halt a lethal avian parasite spread by urban pigeons, California wildlife officials are asking residents to remove birdbaths and feeders that attract the birds.

A controversial mine that was recently approved by Congress has divided a small Arizona town.

Gogebic Taconite may forgo building one massive iron mine in northern Wisconsin in favor of four smaller open pits to circumvent wetlands protected by state and federal law.

Scientists have developed a hand-held fish sensor to crack down on restaurants' serving fraudulent fish to customers.

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