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Militants from the Islamic State group have closed the gates of a dam in the Iraqi city of Ramadi to cut off water to pro-government areas, officials said.

A teenager was knocked unconscious by an airborne sturgeon Sunday while boating with family in Manatee Springs State Park, according to Florida wildlife officials.

A study of Minnesota lakes and rivers has found some uncommon chemicals in state waters.

A new package of laws designed to preserve California's groundwater include a secrecy provision, concealing the names of farmers and private pumpers drawing heavily from dwindling reserves, according to the Center for Investigative Journalism.

Prayers for rains amid a harsh drought in southern Texas were answered, but now flooding is posing a new risk to agricultural crops.

A secretive Russian organization known as the Internet Research Agency that has tried stir online havoc around the world -- including in American cities and towns -- may have been to blame for a chemical safety scare last year.

The Environmental Working Group today increased its efforts to target companies that use the controversial chemical bisphenol-A, or BPA, in the linings of cans.

Even as Amtrak scrambles to institute key safety controls by the end of this year, the majority of other commuter rails will not be able to implement the technology for multiple years.

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R), citing a looming state budget crisis, is spiking a controversial road project intended to link interstate highways in his state and Indiana.

U.S. EPA has a new press secretary.

Jessica Alba, the co-founder of the Honest Company, has built a $200 million fortune selling parents products meant to give them peace of mind.

A private Maryland company has set its sights on becoming the pioneer of commercial weather satellites.

Fifteen months after a radiation leak at a federal underground nuclear waste repository, the affected storage areas have been permanently sealed, officials said yesterday.

Chevron Corp. paid a $939,553 fine for a fatal explosion at a Pennsylvania gas well in 2014, possibly the state's largest fine for a single incident, officials said yesterday.

Campbell Soup Co. and its subsidiary Pepperidge Farm Inc. have partnered with the Environmental Defense Fund to improve water quality, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make fertilizer use more efficient, the group announced yesterday.

An Alabama refrigeration company will pay $3 million to resolve environmental violations stemming from the release of ammonia that sickened more than 152 Deepwater Horizon oil spill cleanup workers in Alabama, the Justice Department said yesterday.

A former Interior Department official who was tasked with reforming the government's offshore drilling regime in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has joined the law firm Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner and Sauber LLP.

Researchers left Miami Beach yesterday aboard a three-masted schooner to study the growing problem of microplastic in the world's oceans.

An Australian tourist was seriously injured by a bison yesterday after he got within feet of the animal in Yellowstone National Park to take a picture.

Mining company Colowyo Coal Company LP is appealing a federal court ruling that could have a significant impact on strip mine permitting on federal land, including how regulators analyze a project's greenhouse gas footprint.

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