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Worsening drought conditions in California could be causing more damage to the state's forests than the ecosystems can handle, according to a U.S. Forest Service study released yesterday.

Just 3 percent of juvenile salmon survived their migration run in the Sacramento River last year, scientists said yesterday.

The federal government should take a handful of "modest and programmatic" steps that would greatly aid the West's ability to cope with drought, a leading California-based think tank said today.

The FBI has joined an investigation into water contamination in Flint, Mich., the U.S. attorney's office in Detroit said today.

U.S. EPA chief Gina McCarthy vowed this morning during a visit to Flint, Mich., that the agency would remain in the city until its lead-contaminated drinking water is made safe again.

A federal court dismissed a couple's complaint against the Forest Service for logging land that hindered their plans to develop a mountain resort in central California.

Murray Energy Corp. yesterday withdrew its request to postpone trial in a lawsuit by the company against U.S. EPA to allow CEO Robert Murray to attend the Republican National Convention.

The higher the moon is in the sky, the less rainfall the Earth gets, according to new research.

Tiny plastic particles in the ocean could be harming oysters' ability to reproduce, affecting everything from their sperm to the growth of their spawn, a new study suggests.

U.S. EPA and other federal regulatory agencies are not doing enough to protect dwindling populations of prairie dogs and their grassland habitat, environmentalists said in a new report.

Lawmakers on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today lauded the addition of an amendment reauthorizing U.S. EPA's brownfields program to an energy policy bill under consideration.

Legislation to incorporate aerial survey data into the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's approval process for natural gas infrastructure could lead to unintended consequences by delaying or adding costs to some projects, a senior FERC staffer told a House panel today.

Top utility groups have come out against an amendment to the Senate's energy bill that aims to limit state regulators from imposing new rates for net-metering policies.

Hundreds of protesters on opposite sides of a monthlong occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge yesterday shouted at each other in the small town of Burns, Ore.

As the standoff unfolded at the federal wildlife refuge in rural Oregon, Robert C. Finicum remained quiet.

MALHEUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Ore. -- The Narrows grocery store and cafe got a surprise burst of business last month.

FLINT, Mich. -- In his most recent Sunday morning sermon here, the Rev. Alfred Harris Sr. acted out a literal interpretation of his message to congregants. As he preached about fighting the devil, he shadowboxed a few punches near the lectern, exercised an imaginary jump-rope, dropped to the floor for a pushup and then ran a lap of the sanctuary.

Lead contamination in the Flint, Mich., water supply points to what many see as the next big fight over a U.S. EPA water regulation.

The Obama administration told a federal judge last week that overturning Endangered Species Act protections for the lesser prairie chicken could put the bird on a one-way road to extinction.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Welcome to the 21st century space race: The goal isn't to put a man on the moon, it's getting a traveler from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes or less. That's the Hyperloop vision of SpaceX and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk. And thousands of students converged on Texas A&M University last weekend in a bid to make this "fifth mode of transportation" happen.

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