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A day on the lam in Casper, Wyo., ended with a young black bear apprehended by state Game and Fish wardens while napping beneath an aspen tree.

Summer may be well under way, but the remnants of Boston's record snowfall aren't budging.

Ten workers were taken to hospitals after an ammonia gas leak at a Texas chemical plant yesterday afternoon.

U.S. EPA's inspector general will review how the agency uses financial instruments to ensure companies can pay for cleanups, according to a memo published yesterday.

U.S. EPA announced a $1.6 billion loan yesterday to upgrade a wastewater treatment plant in California, the largest financing deal ever given to a project in the state under the Clean Water Act.

The verdict is in: Federal employees still can't smoke pot.

If you want a speedy reply to your Freedom of Information Act request, you might want to try the Department of Homeland Security.

The Department of Energy is on a mission to ensure that the real estate market rewards homeowners who have made green improvements to their homes.

Coal mines are for sale around the world, with few takers.

Wyoming regulators are asking Alpha Natural Resources Inc. to prove it can cover the cost of reclaiming its mining operations were the company to get into financial trouble.

A contractor employed at a Minnesota nuclear power plant was found to have a carload of ammunition and explosives after he harassed and threatened union officials, according to a criminal complaint.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has extended the public comment period on a plan to add two new reactors to the Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station near Homestead, Fla.

Poor planning by Shell Oil Co. is to blame for the grounding of the Kulluk drilling rig in Alaska three years ago, according to a new report released yesterday by the National Transportation Safety Board.

A federal appeals court declined a request from major oil producers to reconsider a ruling that forces them to pay federal rates for moving oil in an 800-mile Alaska pipeline that doesn't leave the state.

A federal appeals court today rejected a consolidated and complex challenge to U.S. EPA's first ever air standards for makers of polyvinyl chloride, or PVC.

A federal appeals court threw out a lawsuit yesterday against U.S. EPA by the developers of a controversial Alaska mining project.

A new lab at the University of Miami will allow researchers to create hurricane conditions artificially to study how they form naturally.

The makers of "San Andreas" largely ignored scientific critiques of the film's unrealistic elements, said a University of Southern California seismology professor who was consulted during production.

Alligators catchers in Texas are hard at work as regional flooding drives their reptile quarry into more frequent contact with the public.

Washington, D.C., drivers can expect at least six months of snarled traffic on the iconic Memorial Bridge that leads from the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery to the Lincoln Memorial.

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