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Cleanup crews are continuing to clean up ammonium sulfate that spilled from a BNSF Railway freight train last weekend near Colorado Springs, Colo.

Heavyweight industry groups are pushing back on a proposed Consumer Product Safety Commission regulation that could ban certain plasticizers that have been linked to health problems, pointing to what they say are procedural problems in how the agency determined the ban was necessary.

Federal, state and local governments could do more to share information on where flammable and explosive materials are stored, which is necessary to avoid safety lapses, according to a new report.

U.S. EPA's first ever national standards for the disposal of coal combustion waste will become official tomorrow with publication in the Federal Register.

Two men have been arrested on federal charges for their role in a 2013 Amtrak train wreck in Fairfax, S.C.

Amtrak's inspector general is launching an audit of the passenger railroad's tech-oriented effort to modernize management of key business operations.

A California county will not renew its contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services Agency until an environmental review into alternatives to lethal predator control is completed.

The U.S. Office of Government Ethics has issued new guidelines for federal employees using social media.

Federal cash should not be used for alcohol, entertainment, sports club memberships, meals and other "inappropriate" spending, the White House cautioned federal agencies yesterday.

U.S. EPA today released a draft strategy to improve its environmental justice programs over the next five years, focusing on considering agency impacts on individual communities overburdened by pollution.

Having already achieved its domestic renewable power goals, Apple is taking more steps to become more environmentally friendly.

Murray Energy Corp., the country's largest privately held coal mining company, announced this week it is laying off more than 200 employees and contractors from mines in West Virginia.

Coming up with the $100 billion in annual climate change aid that countries vowed to deliver by 2020 is "critical" to closing the deal on a global warming accord this year, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said today.

A Native American man serving a life sentence for murdering his 22-month-old daughter is trying to hitch his hopes of a new trial onto the state of Wyoming's lawsuit over the boundaries of his home reservation.

A former IT specialist at U.S. EPA is heading to federal prison.

With many species of bats under increasing threat from a deadly fungal disease, the Fish and Wildlife Service is stepping up international cooperation to protect the mammals.

After the success of recent wireless Internet tests, National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis recently said he would like to see the most popular parks install Wi-Fi connections "within a few years."

Robert R.M. Verchick is set to take the helm of the Center for Progressive Reform, a liberal think tank that focuses on regulations.

Friends of the Earth U.S. called on Harvard professor Laurence Tribe today to disclose specific details of his agreement with Peabody Energy Corp. as the former Obama mentor headed to court to argue against the centerpiece of the president's second-term climate agenda.

A new House bill would require the secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture to allow local governments to keep national parks, forests, wildlife refuges and other lands open during a government shutdown.

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