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A tiny Illinois town was terrorized by a tornado yesterday evening that killed one person and injured eight more.

U.S. EPA this week issued a proposal to reduce air pollution emissions in Arkansas that are linked to diminished visibility at national parks and wildernesses.

A coalition of environmental groups this week filed a lawsuit against U.S. EPA alleging that the agency failed to complete required reviews of air toxics standards for 21 industry categories.

As California is ravaged by drought, Silicon Valley's technology companies are making sweeping changes to their sprawling campuses in the name of water conservation.

Lowe's Cos. announced yesterday that it would phase out neonicotinoid insecticides in its retail garden sector over the next four years.

A Wyoming man is being sentenced in federal court today after pleading guilty to taking a train from a coal mine and crashing it into another train.

The lawyer in charge of dividing up a $20 billion victims' fund set aside by BP PLC in response to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill said the first-of-its-kind fund will probably also be the last.

Duke Energy Corp. is asking North Carolina regulators to dismiss a $25.1 million fine for leaks at its coal ash ponds near a Wilmington, N.C., power plant, calling the penalty excessive.

Wyoming game wardens keep finding poached elk, bringing a controversy as old as the state itself back into court.

Yellowstone National Park's flora and fauna face a future fraught with risk as climate change transforms the park landscape in coming years, a report released yesterday found.

Fisherman in the Gulf of Alaska are trying everything, including blasting heavy metal music, to keep whales away from their black cod fishing lines.

The South Florida Water Management District board yesterday reneged on a 2010 deal to buy 46,800 acres of U.S. Sugar land it formerly considered critical to Everglades restoration.

Sea turtles are "very active" swimmers as toddlers, according to a new study that challenges the once widely held belief that they drift on ocean currents.

Nearly half the country thinks Uncle Sam is slacking on environmental protection, according to a new survey.

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a potential Republican presidential candidate, yesterday called on the United States to speed up energy exports as a way to combat Russian aggression in Europe.

U.S. EPA has heard from numerous stakeholders that the Clean Power Plan's interim compliance targets might force states to comply by upping their use of natural gas rather than investing in renewable energy and efficiency options that take more time to develop, agency chief Gina McCarthy said this morning.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- A Northern California House Democrat took on the sacred cow of state water politics yesterday, telling an audience of San Francisco Bay Area industrialists that farmers in the central part of the state should reconsider their practices.

The chemical dispersant used to break down the oil spilled in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico is more toxic to coral than the oil, according to a study released on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the disaster.

The state of Utah has scored a major victory in its ongoing efforts to claim ownership of thousands of roads crossing federal lands, with a federal judge's decision this week to put the brakes on a lawsuit that challenges the state's legal right to the roads.

YUCCA MOUNTAIN, Nev. -- Standing before the yawning, black mouth of the entrance to the Yucca Mountain repository site, Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) made an aggressive pitch yesterday for storing the nation's most highly radioactive nuclear waste deep in the Silver State's desert.

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