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The Obama administration's final budget request places a top priority on climate change and seeks to boost clean energy programs across federal agencies, including U.S. EPA.

President Obama is doubling down on his push for clean energy policies in his $4.1 trillion fiscal 2017 budget, but his final spending blueprint is expected to be largely ignored by the Republican-controlled Congress.

Scientists are casting doubts on reports that a meteorite killed a man in India last week.

Florida police officers have arrested a man for tossing a live alligator through a Wendy's drive-thru window last fall.

Michigan regulators yesterday defended their handling of an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in Flint, Mich., and released new documents on their actions.

The recent outbreak of the Zika virus, which has been connected to birth defects, has caused researchers in French Polynesia to conduct a retrospective study of how their 2013 outbreak may have affected residents.

An international health agency's reversal in 2008 of a previous finding that vinyl chloride causes cancer may have been based on flawed scientific research shaped by chemical companies.

A water main break in Flint, Mich., lead the city to put out a "boil-water" alert, marking the latest issue in the city's ongoing water crisis.

North Carolina regulators have fined utility Duke Energy Corp. $6.6 million for its role in a 2014 coal ash spill.

Water officials in Flint, Mich., chose not to add corrosion-control chemicals to treated water because they feared it would fuel bacteria growth, documents show.

The bankrupt Alpha Natural Resources Inc. may sell some of its coal mines.

When a well stops producing commercial amounts of oil and gas, companies traditionally pronounce that well "dead" and place a cement plug inside the well bore to stop the flow of gas and fluids. And leak monitoring stops.

California's drought has had many negative effects on the state, including curtailing the state's usually abundant and cheap hydroelectric power.

Although the overall structure of the Interior Department's offshore drilling regulation is largely the same as last year's proposal, recent amendments may have made rules somewhat more favorable to the oil and gas industry, according to The Wall Street Journal, which reviewed the documents.

Methane is a byproduct of nearly all life-forms on Earth, but this invisible gas can also cause big problems for the planet.

Global warming is about to do a number on trans-Atlantic flights by speeding up the jet stream and slowing down airplanes, researchers say.

Michigan may consider filing manslaughter charges if it finds officials were grossly negligent in their handling of the Flint water crisis, an investigator said yesterday.

A self-described aerospace industry coalition is suing U.S. EPA over revised emission standards for aviation manufacturing and rework facilities.

Officials in Tanzania and Kenya are beginning to repurpose old crime-fighting methods to successfully stop illegal poaching in their lands.

Coal foes yesterday called on the Obama administration to force the nation's largest coal company to secure more than $1 billion in new mine cleanup guarantees or stop mining in the West.

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