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Christian Michael Mares, a sponsored snowboarder, said he was looking for a "nice cliff to drop" before he started an avalanche at a Northern California ski resort Jan. 15.

A one-day coyote hunting contest in northeastern Wisconsin has left environmental groups worried that federally protected wolves may be killed during the event.

Water utilities around the country are reassuring customers they have sufficient corrosion-control measures in place to avoid the kind of lead contamination officials believe happened in Flint, Mich.

The Department of Transportation needs to speed up its rulemaking regulating how best to respond to oil spills from trains carrying highly flammable material, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee ranking member Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) wrote in a letter to Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx yesterday.

For years, environmentalists and clean car advocates have dreamed about a long-range electric vehicle with a price tag that most Americans could actually afford.

Federal agency offices in Washington, D.C., are closing early today as a major winter storm is expected to pound the Mid-Atlantic region starting today and lasting through the weekend.

The Department of Energy miscalculated the cost of its expensive and complicated effort to clean up contamination generated by its nuclear weapons complex, overstating estimates by hundreds of millions of dollars, the agency's Office of Inspector General said in a report this week.

Dutch electronics company Royal Philips NV has backed out of a deal to sell its light-emitting diode component and automotive business after U.S. regulators expressed deep concerns.

Schlumberger Ltd., the world's largest oil field services company, began canceling projects after its 2015 budget results unveiled sharp revenue declines following an 18-month dip in crude prices that has continued into this year.

A basic technology used in hybrid and electric cars has been adopted to great success by Philadelphia's subway system, highlighting future revenue sources for public transit agencies.

Scientists are seeking permission to drill more than 16,000 feet into the Earth's crust in North Dakota to study the suitability of some of Earth's oldest rock for nuclear waste storage.

Utilities and industry groups issued warnings about decaying underground natural gas storage infrastructure for years before a massive methane leak from a Los Angeles well last fall, according to a Reuters investigation.

The FutureGen Alliance is formally ending all efforts to revive a high-profile carbon capture project in Illinois that lost its Department of Energy financing last year.

U.S. EPA closed the comment period yesterday on the federal plan and model emission-trading rules under the Clean Power Plan.

Monsanto Co. is challenging California regulators' decision to list glyphosate, the active ingredient in the pesticide Roundup, as a chemical known to cause cancer.

A coalition of business groups led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is directly contesting a legal bid by environmental groups to further tighten U.S. EPA's recently adopted ambient ozone standard of 70 parts per billion.

A search mission resumed today for a 58-year-old Florida man missing in Rocky Mountain National Park.

A study released yesterday suggests that the absence of pollinators like flower flies, butterflies and bees can seriously harm food production on small farms -- hampering agricultural scientists' efforts to find ways to feed the planet.

More than 300,000 comments have flooded the Forest Service as the long-running battle over coal mining in remote Colorado forests continues to roil.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris (D) and 11 of her colleagues urged Congress to leave state chemical programs untouched as much as possible in a pending federal bill.

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