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Eighteen cars derailed and one spilled more than 20,000 gallons of lube oil after a freight train was rear-ended by another train in western Virginia yesterday, Norfolk Southern said.

The Government Accountability Office has found declining morale among federal employees.

Human rights advocates are pressing U.S. EPA to pay more attention to the health of prison populations.

After nearly two decades investigating everything from Solyndra to embezzlement charges and nuclear waste cleanup efforts, the Energy Department's top watchdog is leaving his post.

Both sides of a contentious debate over a plan to build a 7.4-mile power line across the historic James River in Virginia expect the Army Corps of Engineers to make a decision this week on the project.

The majority of proposed U.S. liquefied natural gas export projects won't be built due to competition from competitors abroad who will flood the market, a new study finds.

Los Angeles is taking steps to ban utility-scale wind turbines in unincorporated areas of the county.

The Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory this morning announced roughly $12 million in funding for research projects focused on offshore underground carbon storage.

The New Mexico Supreme Court revealed yesterday it will hear an appeal of state regulations governing groundwater pollution by copper mines.

The Justice Department's environmental division yesterday announced key staffing changes, including the establishment of a new position focused on attorney training.

A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Corp. for alleged human rights abuses including torture and rape in Indonesia can move forward.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has donated $15 million to various environmental causes.

Veterinarians are working around the clock to stave off the potential extinction of a critically endangered turtle species after thousands were found trapped in a dry concrete pond on the western island of Palawan in the Philippines.

Eight years and nine land deals later, Montana's Lewis and Clark National Forest has finished acquiring 8,221 acres of private inholdings.

A shipment of totoaba swim bladders has been intercepted by customs agents in Puerto Rico en route from Venezuela to China, where the endangered fish is a prized delicacy.

The Agriculture Department's Farm Service Agency will publish an interim rule for the Conservation Reserve Program in the Federal Register tomorrow, implementing changes made in the 2014 farm bill to the landmark program.

A coalition of wildlife advocacy groups today urged the Obama administration to promptly add all eight types of pangolins to the endangered species list.

California wants to significantly cut the size of grass lawns outside homes and businesses, the latest move to overhaul water use during a destructive drought.

Senate Democrats today ramped up pressure on their Republican colleagues to come to the table with a bipartisan spending solution to avoid spending cuts that they say could endanger the U.S. electric grid and trigger a government shutdown.

The Obama administration this morning threw its support behind a stopgap transportation funding measure set for a House vote later today.

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