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Last year may have been the busiest ever on America's highways.

After this past weekend's massive snowstorm, a dubiously low snowfall total at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport outside Washington, D.C., has prompted a review of snow measurement procedures by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Jonas certainly left an impression on Washington, D.C.

Many multinational corporations do not have access to information about the environmental impacts of their suppliers' operations, according to a new study.

Illinois topped the U.S. Green Building Council's list today of top 10 states making strides on sustainable building design and construction.

Rare Element Resources Ltd. is pausing the permitting process for a proposed rare earth elements mine in northeastern Wyoming as it hunts for financing in a tight market.

Environmentalists are warning the Obama administration about a gap between its goals to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector and potential reductions that proposed regulations will actually achieve.

Celebrities and big corporations are coming forward to donate water to Flint, Mich., residents who are dealing with the effects of corroded lead pipes.

Marc Edwards, the Virginia Tech environmental engineering professor who pushed for months for officials to acknowledge the extent of lead contamination in Flint, Mich.'s water supply, got his start fighting utility officials in Washington, D.C.

A group of Michigan Democratic lawmakers want to boost fiscal 2016 funding for the early childhood program Head Start to provide expanded services for children in Flint, Mich., exposed to the city's contaminated drinking water.

A San Francisco judge yesterday rejected a request by the California Public Utilities Commission to dismiss a lawsuit that would force regulators to release emails between them and the office of Gov. Jerry Brown (D) about the closure of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.

The Pittsburgh-based law firm Babst Calland has hired two energy attorneys and former government officials to open its new Washington, D.C., office, the firm announced yesterday.

Snowzilla trampled the travel plans of Alaska's now-famous hovercraft rider, John Sturgeon.

A meteorologist with the Weather Channel died Sunday after crashing his vehicle into a parking garage in Atlanta, the network said yesterday.

Central Africa is home to 920,000 pygmy people, according to a network of researchers who created the first map of pygmy populations, but logging, mining and land clearing have endangered the forest communities.

Four people died in avalanches across the West this weekend, pushing the month's total avalanche deaths to 11 and making it the deadliest January for snowslides in nearly two decades.

A coalition of environmental groups is suing the Kaibab National Forest in Arizona in an effort to overturn a travel management plan that they say has opened up most of the forest to off-highway vehicle activity that could harm sensitive wildlife.

The National Marine Fisheries Service announced today that it is dramatically increasing the critical habitat for endangered North Atlantic right whales, with protections for feeding grounds and calving areas along the East Coast.

The confirmation of a new Food and Drug Administration commissioner has been stalled for a second time, this time by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who says the agency needs to change the way it approves powerful painkillers.

Billionaire environmental activist and Democratic donor Tom Steyer today launched a series of online videos depicting the problems he wants fixed in California.

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