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Tropical Storm Erika hit Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands with strong winds and heavy rains today as it made its way across the Caribbean toward the Dominican Republic, northern Haiti and South Florida.

A senior U.S. official said approving the Trans-Pacific Partnership will help crack down on poaching in Africa fueled by the multibillion-dollar illegal wildlife trade.

Sea ice loss has once again driven Pacific walruses to come ashore in large numbers on Alaska's northwest coast.

SeaWorld Entertainment Inc.'s stocks are plummeting after recent comments by teenage pop music heartthrob Harry Styles, according to Wall Street bankers.

Today, fishermen in the Bering Sea catch an enormous amount of pollock, earning the fishery the distinction of the largest catch by volume in federal waters.

Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) next week will host an Environment and Public Works Committee field hearing on U.S. EPA's proposal to tighten the national ozone standard.

Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell (D) urged her colleagues in Congress at a hearing she hosted in her home state to fix a broken wildfire suppression funding system that forces agencies to borrow money from other programs that could help reduce wildfire risks.

Five congressional committees have scheduled hearings next month on the massive Aug. 5 spill of polluted water triggered accidentally by U.S. EPA contractors at an abandoned southwest Colorado mine.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest is quashing rumors that President Obama is preparing to issue a decision on whether to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.

NEW ORLEANS -- President Obama praised the city's ongoing recovery from Hurricane Katrina yesterday but said more work must be done to prepare communities for the impacts of extreme weather events driven by climate change.

U.S. EPA yesterday sent its final rule to stem toxic air emissions from refineries to the White House for review.

A Utah county commissioner convicted by a jury last May for leading an illegal all-terrain vehicle ride through a sensitive river canyon asked a federal court this week for a new trial based on the discovery of a decades-old map he claims proves the canyon was open to ATVs.

A federal judge agreed yesterday with the request from the developer of an Alaskan gold and copper project to subpoena a former U.S. EPA ecologist in litigation against the agency.

The legal and practical morass surrounding the Obama administration's controversial water rule became more muddied yesterday when a federal judge blocked its implementation in 13 states just hours before it was set to go into effect.

Local governments in China have filed plans to move or upgrade more than 1,000 chemical plants in the wake of a series of explosions in Tianjin earlier this month.

Chinese legislators have created a legal framework to cap coal consumption in amendments to the nation's 15-year-old air pollution law.

Two people in Washington died during a windstorm Saturday that knocked out power to roughly 450,000 people, according to news reports.

Energy officials say California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) is mulling an ambitious plan to integrate electricity generation systems in the western United States and boost California's role in the process.

Long-term exposure to the pesticide Roundup at levels thousands of times lower than permitted in U.S. drinking water could cause serious liver and kidney problems, a study has found.

The federal government has beefed up its hiring of veterans in recent years, with one in three people working in government having served in the military, according to a report from the Office of Personnel Management.

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