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Documents released by the Consumer Product Safety Commission in response to an advocacy group's lawsuit show the agency has done little to investigate whether synthetic turf products contain unsafe lead levels, the group contends.

A new study out of Beijing shows air pollution causes babies to be born smaller.

Earlier this week, Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement Director Joseph Pizarchik met with representatives of coal-mining states behind closed doors about the forthcoming stream protection rule.

Urban residents throughout California will face water cutbacks for the next nine months under emergency regulations officials released yesterday evening to deal with the state's worsening drought.

Andrew Ott will step up later this year as the next president of PJM Interconnection, the nation's largest grid operator, overseeing the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest.

The ex-wife of Continental Resources Inc. Chairman Harold Hamm lost her appeal of her nearly $1 billion divorce settlement -- one of the largest alimony payouts ever, but only a fraction of her former husband's fortune.

A federal judge has ruled oil spill cleanup workers are entitled to a jury trial if they develop medical problems from the work.

The Supreme Court today upheld Florida's ban on judges personally soliciting contributions for their campaigns, ruling that the practice infringes on the integrity of the court system.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials have given the go-ahead to transfer an orphan polar bear cub named Kali to the St. Louis Zoo.

A new U.S. Geological Survey study shed new light on invasive Burmese pythons that despite their takeover of the Everglades are difficult to track through South Florida's wetlands.

A park ranger shot with a stun gun and then arrested a man flying a drone over a lava field in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on Saturday in front of hundreds of onlookers.

Geologists and geophysicists are warning about more "extreme geological events" in the wake of the devastating earthquake in Nepal as the effect of climate change penetrates the Earth's surface.

More than 40 percent of Americans live in areas that record high levels of air pollution, according to the American Lung Association's annual "State of the Air" report released today.

An environmental group is appealing the State Department's delay in turning over emails tied to former Secretary Hillary Clinton regarding the proposed trans-boundary Keystone XL oil pipeline.

States face wide variations in Clean Power Plan compliance costs and outcomes depending on the paths they choose and how much time U.S. EPA allows them for writing compliance strategies, according to an analysis released yesterday by the Bipartisan Policy Center.

A House panel perfunctorily approved an austere fiscal 2016 transportation spending bill this morning as Republicans said it was the best they could do under the current budget framework and Democrats urged changes as the legislation advances.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee this morning voted down the first two amendments from Democrats who say a Republican bill to declaw U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan will have harmful effects.

Washington, D.C.'s most prominent players on energy and environmental issues saw a busy beginning to their lobbying operations this year.

California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) today ordered the state to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2030, calling it the most ambitious climate target in North America.

A federal analysis of avian mortality at utility-scale solar facilities released earlier this week with little fanfare was unable to determine the cumulative impact on birds posed by the 1-megawatt-or-greater installations.

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