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New rules from Ontario's Agriculture minister will reduce the prevalence of pollinator-killing pesticides. On July 1, Ontario will cut the number of acres planted with neonicotinoid-coated corn and soybean seeds.

China is poised to make polluters pay for the damage they do.

Scientists have finally pinpointed the source of the strange milky rain that left a powdery white residue across 200 miles of eastern Oregon and Washington state in February.

Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill that would regulate toxic chemicals in children's products and is modeled on similar programs in Washington, California, Vermont and Maine.

City officials say nitrates polluting Columbus, Ohio's drinking water likely washed into the Scioto River from farms more than 60 miles away.

A tugboat captain's decision to enter the Houston Ship Channel ahead of a ship is the probable cause of a 2014 collision that spilled 168,000 gallons of oil in the area, the National Transportation Safety Board determined.

Agriculture groups and conservation organizations have joined to ask the Agriculture Department to simplify its implementation of a 2014 farm bill provision that will make federal crop insurance eligibility contingent on basic conservation practices.

Chief Financial Officer of Tesla Motors Inc. Deepak Ahuja said he will retire this year as soon as the electric car company can appoint his replacement.

Sugarcane biomass can be used to produce aviation fuel, researchers said, making big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

The existing federal framework for regulating freight railroad rates has outlived its usefulness and needs an overhaul, an advisory panel said in a report released today.

The engineer in charge of the Amtrak train that derailed last month in Philadelphia was not using his cellphone while driving the train, the National Transportation Safety Board said this morning.

Two National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration survey ships have departed on a mission to update a Cold War relic: navigational charts of U.S. Arctic waters.

The Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration announced yesterday that it is planning to relocate its headquarters Friday.

The Department of Energy's inspector general has uncovered a number of weaknesses in cybersecurity for a nuclear agency facility's computer system.

Consolidated Edison's improperly welded natural gas pipes caused an explosion in East Harlem, N.Y., last year that killed eight people, the National Transportation Safety Board said yesterday.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will announce today more than $6.7 million in grants for 544 renewable energy and efficiency projects.

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus today announced the service's first solar project at an urban installation, with a 6- to 8-megawatt project planned at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the Midwest grid operator's proposal to restructure its capacity market despite the objections of Chairman Norman Bay and some industry groups.

Former military officials slammed climate skeptic politicians today for ignoring the national security impacts of a warming Arctic Ocean.

Federal court arguments are scheduled for today in the case of a Louisiana company seeking to drill for natural gas in an area near Glacier National Park that a neighboring American Indian tribe holds sacred.

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