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The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency released a plan yesterday to protect wild rice from industrial pollution in the state.

Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan touted his efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay and said he's done more in his first few months in office than former Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) did during his entire two terms.

U.S. EPA has proposed adding a Freeman, Wash., grain elevator to the Superfund National Priorities List, citing high levels of a toxic pesticide that is entering area groundwater.

Prenatal exposure to airborne contaminants can later impair children's behavioral development and their ability to learn, according to a new study released today.

Transportation experts say plans by U.S. railroads to use a $9 billion high-tech system to stop train wrecks won't stop trains and trucks from crashing into each other unless the two industries communicate.

Small-farm advocates are criticizing an Agriculture Department rule to curb subsidies to farm managers on large operations who spend little time on the land, saying the effort doesn't go far enough.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management yesterday announced that it has issued its first-ever research lease for offshore wind, clearing the way for the state of Virginia to install two test turbines about 25 miles off its shore.

Japan is forging ahead with funding for coal-fired power plants in India and Bangladesh with money it set aside to fight the impacts of climate change.

A bill before the Alabama Legislature would officially create the job of state climatologist, a role that would likely go to a University of Alabama, Huntsville, scientist who believes the dangers of climate change are exaggerated.

California gasoline prices didn't jump when the state's cap-and-trade program first expanded to include motor fuels because oil sellers continued making healthy profits, an oil business representative said yesterday.

A San Diego County Superior Court judge yesterday found a 14-year-old girl guilty of starting a fire that burned nearly 2,000 acres and destroyed or damaged 40 structures in Southern California last year.

Oregon's Department of Justice has launched a criminal and civil investigation into state tax credits that were awarded to two public universities to install solar arrays.

Two Florida scientists are facing up to 20 years in prison after being convicted of stealing more than $10 million in research awards from U.S. EPA and other agencies.

The National Park Service is looking to use border collies to keep Canada geese and their destructive feces off the National Mall, according to a proposal yesterday.

U.S. consumers could be eating fish caught with slave labor.

Environmental and conservation groups today delivered more than 60,000 petitions to the Obama administration, asking regulators to block mining bordering Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

Environmental groups are "very likely" to appeal a judge's decision last Friday to uphold a Forest Service plan to allow more than 6,000 acres of old-growth logging in Alaska's Tongass National Forest, according to the groups' attorney.

The Obama administration's top environmental lawyer today touted the impact of $60 million spent on combating international wildlife trafficking in Africa last year and committed to continuing investments in curbing the illicit trade.