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President Obama's latest round of national monument designations today has sparked House Republicans to ramp up the rhetoric against a more-than-century-old law that allows presidents to bypass Congress and establish such protected areas.

State electricity regulators are gathering in New York this week for their summer meetings, and, as might be expected, aspects of how U.S. EPA's forthcoming Clean Power Plan might affect their jobs are a prominent focus of discussions.

Despite the country's push to limit pollution, nearly 75 percent of China's big cities failed to meet air quality standards last month, the environment ministry said today.

Federal officials have issued a boating warning as droves of whales are flocking to the coast of Northern California.

All 54 of the stingrays at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo were killed Friday by a tank malfunction that suffocated them.

Fire crews dropping water on a 35-acre brush fire near Yucaipa, Calif., grounded planes for about eight minutes after a drone was spotted in the area.

A program formed four decades ago to protect the public from abandoned coal mines in Oklahoma is struggling to keep up with urban development as money is running low.

Utah's famous Bonneville Salt Flats, where numerous land speed records have been set, are disappearing.

Paul Lioy, an environmental scientist who analyzed how dust from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center affected the health of first-responders, died last week after collapsing at Newark Liberty International Airport. He was 68.

A class of contaminants known as persistent organic pollutants still turn up in Alaska fur seals, despite regulations and treaties meant to curb their use, according to a new study.

A proposed $8 billion expansion of Atlanta's commuter rail system could change the face of public transit in the sprawling Southern metropolis.

Amtrak will not fight lawsuits seeking compensation for the May 12 passenger train derailment that killed eight and injured more than 200.

The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking to purchase 52,000 rounds of ammunition for officers at Hoover Dam and the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, documents show.

Seven federal agencies are launching a new effort to digitize and publicize the records they distribute under Freedom of Information Act requests.

Construction on the South's first commercial-scale wind power farm will soon begin on 22,000 acres of North Carolina farmland.

A pipeline leak at a St. Louis-area pump station Friday spilled about 4,200 gallons of crude oil, with some of it reaching a nearby creek.

At least 12 million trees have died in California as bark beetles take advantage of weakened trees from the state's ongoing drought.

Farmers and the Bureau of Indian Affairs are trying to crack down on water thieves exacerbating existing management problems on a federally managed tribal irrigation system in Washington state.