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One month ago, environmental groups were strategizing over their latest bid: Get the Obama administration to create its first marine monument off New England.

The Republican chairman of the House Agriculture Committee unveiled legislation late last night that could bring hundreds of millions of dollars to a controversial nuclear waste storage company in his West Texas district.

U.S. EPA today gave owners of coal-fired power plants a bit of breathing room under long-awaited final standards that raise the bar for cutting toxic metal discharge.

Veteran Justice Department attorney Steve Samuels -- the government's most recognizable expert on the Clean Water Act -- is facing the greatest challenge of his long career: defending the Obama administration's contentious new Waters of the U.S. rule. Challenges from 31 states, countless industry groups and even a few environmental nonprofits has sprung up in courts across the country, paving a road of litigation that seems almost certain to reach the Supreme Court.

As a major coal producer, consumer and exporter, what are Wyoming's plans for complying with U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan? During today's OnPoint, Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead (R) discusses the questions and concerns he has with the targets EPA has established for his state. He talks about the role natural gas, wind energy and emissions trading could play in a compliance mechanism. Mead also addresses Wyoming's plans to litigate the power plan.

A bus full of screaming schoolchildren apparently drove a mountain lion up a power pole Tuesday in rural Southern California.

Wisconsin officials have denied a hoax letter suggesting that deer lawn ornaments had been mistakenly included in the state's previous two annual deer tallies.

A judge today is scheduled to consider a request to block a state-sanctioned black bear hunt.

Shell Oil Co. will spend $30 million to clean up contaminated soil at the Del Amo Superfund site near Torrance, Calif., under an agreement with U.S. EPA.

Starting today, American doctors will no longer worry about how to precisely describe the injuries sustained by someone bitten by a cow. There is now a code for that: W55.21.

Johns Hopkins University has terminated a controversial black lung program that almost always failed to find black lung disease in X-ray readings of coal miners it examined.

One of the world's largest fertilizer manufacturers will pay nearly $2 billion toward cleanup of 60 billion pounds of hazardous waste, U.S. EPA said today.

Ash left over from a volcanic eruption more than a century ago is still being blown into some Alaskan cities by strong winds.

Washington, D.C.'s Metro system requires federal oversight to ensure safety, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended yesterday.

Seemingly fed up with the number of car recalls lately, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said yesterday he wants to bring the globe's automakers to Washington, D.C., for a summit.

Volkswagen's systemic cheating on vehicle emissions tests underscores the need for stiffer regulations, an environmental group said in a petition sent today to U.S. EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board violated the Sunshine Act when it voted on broad governance changes at a public meeting earlier this year without issuing notice it would consider the items, the U.S. EPA inspector general said today.

Some Samsung Group televisions appear to use less energy during regulatory testing than during real-world conditions, raising concern by European regulators that they are set up to cheat on the energy tests.

Thinking of getting a few cans of Libby's canned pumpkin to make Thanksgiving pie this fall? Better get it now, said an executive at Nestle SA, owner of the pumpkin brand. Production this year is about half the usual output.

A federal appeals court has ruled for Chicago in a lawsuit alleging that the city's law requiring landowners to control weeds on their property punishes violators too harshly.

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