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Los Angeles County's transportation agency will cut its water consumption by 20 percent by 2017 under a plan approved yesterday.

Cities in California are working to contain water leaks, hoping that reducing waste will make it easier to comply with state restrictions.

Nearly a third of the world's 37 largest aquifers are being drained faster than they can be replenished, according to a new study.

After expressing skepticism about the project, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) gave tentative approval yesterday to a smaller version of the Purple Line light rail through the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.

General Motors has distributed prototype images of its Chevrolet Bolt, showing that the car company is apparently ahead of Tesla Motors Inc. in releasing an affordable electric car.

A federal probe into bribery and Russian uranium has led to a rural Ohio town.

The Energy Department today unveiled proposed energy efficiency standards for ceiling fan lights that could save up to $820 million and 3.3 million metric tons of cumulative carbon dioxide emissions over 30 years.

The California Air Resources Board has approved a method for letting rice growers generate carbon offsets for the state's cap-and-trade system, the first of its kind.

A man accused of being the ringleader of the largest bear poaching ring in Montana history pleaded guilty to five felony charges.

In the face of harsh criticism from conservation groups, the Fish and Wildlife Service today defended its decision to allow a landowner to shoot a female red wolf -- one of around 100 in the wild.

President Obama will ask questions of a British naturalist Sunday in an interview airing on BBC.

Pope Francis' recent climate change encyclical may be changing how presidential candidates talk about the issue, Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski said.

The League of Conservation Voters will launch a $50,000 ad campaign Monday targeting Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, criticizing the Republican lawmaker over a series of votes aimed at curbing the U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan via the spending bill that funds the Interior Department and EPA.

A bipartisan Senate bill to update how the federal government regulates toxic chemicals will face a "long, drawn-out process" if it's brought to the floor, its top opponent warned yesterday.

For the troubled Washington, D.C.-area Metro transit system, there's a new, would-be sheriff in town -- otherwise known as the Senate Appropriations Committee.

U.S. EPA does not plan to finalize its renewable fuel targets for 2014 through 2016 until November, but stakeholders and officials are already starting to ponder what comes next for the nation's biofuels policy.

The population of a federally threatened grouse in the southern Great Plains grew by about 25 percent over the past year, marking the second consecutive year of significant growth, according to the preliminary results of a helicopter survey.

The Obama administration's final Waters of the U.S. rule is slated to run in the Federal Register on Monday, likely setting off a deluge of legal challenges.

Republican attempts to undercut U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan by claiming the Obama administration failed to carefully weigh the impact of forcing the closure of coal-fired power plants on endangered Florida manatees initially drew groans and guffaws from environmentalists. But as Endangered Species Act challenges to other seemingly unrelated environmental rules have flared in the courts and on Capitol Hill, some legal experts and conservationists are saying the Republicans might be on to something.

Congress has left town for the Independence Day recess after the House last week easily passed legislation to thwart U.S. EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan.

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