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Republican Gov. John Kasich's administration did not act improperly when it pushed out an Ohio EPA official who opposed coal-mining permits, a review has found.

Stories of miscarriages, children with birth defects, cancers and persistent coughs are not uncommon at nail salons, where workers are often exposed to toxic chemicals.

A panel of California regulators has signed off on listing the common plasticizer bisphenol A, or BPA, as a chemical known to the state to cause reproductive harm.

RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. -- Some residents of an irrigation district here that ranked as one of the state's biggest water guzzlers could soon learn they'll need to cut back consumption not just by the 36 percent ordered by the state, but in some cases as much as 50 percent.

Syngenta AG has rejected a $45 billion takeover bid from rival Monsanto Co., calling the offer too low and risky for the firm.

Five Californians face charges including grand theft and recycling fraud for allegedly redeeming $14 million worth of cans and bottles from Arizona at California recycling centers.

Randy Jones, a former Shell Pipeline Company LP employee, has been sentenced to five years' probation and ordered to pay $19.4 million after admitting to failing to conduct a required inspection of a Wisconsin pipeline that leaked about 9,000 gallons of jet fuel, the Transportation Department's inspector general announced this morning.

A Canada goose will spend Mother's Day recovering from serious burns sustained as she tried to protect her eggs after cigarette butts started a nest fire in Castalia, Ohio.

A former Superfund site will soon have a new resident: the endangered black-footed ferret.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm warning in the Carolinas last night after the formation of the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.

For the second year in a row, the number of gray wolves in Alaska's Denali National Park declined to a new low, according to a National Park Service draft report released yesterday by a watchdog group.

A final rule on how federal wildlife officials gauge impacts to threatened and endangered species is an improvement over an earlier draft but fails to take a holistic look at current and future threats to imperiled species, according to a review by Defenders of Wildlife.

Democratic Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts are asking U.S. EPA not to accept wood-based energy as a zero-emission alternative to fossil fuels in the agency's Clean Power Plan.

Initial industry reactions this week to more moderate House and Senate proposals for fast-tracking natural gas pipelines revealed differing opinions among gas producers and pipeline companies.

President Obama's first visit as president to South Dakota today will take him into one of the emerging battlegrounds in the debate over the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.

The Obama administration's effort to better protect federal investments from rising seas and more severe storms has largely sidestepped the debate over the science of climate change -- but it isn't without controversy.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has moved up its monthly meeting to avoid a scheduled large-scale protest.

She has "sexted" mites, regulated shrimp harvests and combed through wildlife poop.

U.S. EPA sent today its final rule limiting carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants to the White House for review.

"Excessively risk averse" federal firefighting has caused Western wildfires that escape initial containment to become far more destructive to neighboring communities, Forest Service researchers say in a new study.

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