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A male emu is back in its pen after a weeklong romp through a residential New Hampshire neighborhood.

The head of the North Las Vegas sewage treatment plant has been laid off in what utility officials are calling a move to save money.

California air regulations have resulted in a 76 percent decline in cancer risk from toxic air pollution over more than two decades, state regulators said.

Apple Inc. has set a 2019 "ship date" and tripled the number of engineers working on its secret "Titan" project, the supposed code name for an effort to build its own car, according to unidentified sources.

Volkswagen officials said this morning that 11 million of its diesel cars sold around the world contained defeat devices meant to help them cheat on emissions tests.

U.S. EPA is putting taxpayer cash at risk by failing to properly manage $334 million in information technology investments, according to a new watchdog report.

Former Royal Dutch Shell PLC executive Juan José Aranguren has done an energy 180 of sorts since leaving the company in June after 37 years.

Citing multiple cultural and environmental concerns, the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council voted unanimously to oppose a controversial railroad considered key to developing Otter Creek coal in Montana.

Two Southern California water districts have discussed purchasing islands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, raising the suspicions of environmentalists.

Californians who replaced their lawns with drought-friendly turf with rebates from a popular program may owe federal taxes on the rebates, a water agency has warned.

Allegations of pollution at a Brooklyn maraschino cherry factory led authorities to a secret marijuana farm in the facility's basement.

The owner of a company that killed and sickened hundreds with peanut butter tainted with salmonella apologized after being sentenced to 28 years in prison yesterday, the harshest penalty ever given for food-borne illness in the United States.

Bayer CropScience LP will pay more than $5 million in penalties and required safety improvements at four chemical facilities, including one in Institute, W.Va., where two workers were killed in 2008, the Department of Justice said yesterday.

Murray Energy Corp. is suing Bloomberg LP for revealing confidential information about the coal company's finances, according to a complaint filed yesterday in federal court.

A weekend trip to Canada has strengthened Miley Cyrus's opposition to British Columbia's wolf cull.

A spreading invasive pest that attacks many varieties of fruits and vegetables has prompted officials to quarantine 85 square miles of Florida farmland.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature is sounding the alarm that critically endangered Sumatran rhinos are edging even closer to extinction after experts last month declared the species extinct in Malaysia.

A federal advisory panel is urging the Obama administration to withdraw or cancel leases for natural gas drilling in Montana's Lewis and Clark National Forest, east of Glacier National Park.

A federal judge recently upheld the Fish and Wildlife Service's decision to end a controversial and unusual program that kept sea otters out of fishing areas and exempted fishermen from prohibitions on harming them.

The National Marine Fisheries Service is proposing to list two species of grouper under the Endangered Species Act, in its latest response to a petition from WildEarth Guardians to protect dozens of marine species.

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