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Hawaiian lawmakers are advancing a bill that would ban the farming of genetically engineered fish on the island.

Tensions run high as the rooftop-solar debate rages on in Nevada, where as many as 1,000 people are expected at a meeting tomorrow during which the Nevada Public Utilities Commission will discuss new controversial metering rates.

Chinese-made flooring sold at Lumber Liquidators emitted hazardous levels of formaldehyde, an analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found.

Flint, Mich., is the latest -- but not the first -- time children in an American city have been exposed to lead.

A northeast Ohio village has been issued another violation from state environmental regulators for failure to submit two weekly water reports and not discussing its test results with residents after high levels of lead in some drinking water supplies were discovered in January.

Driverless car technology is widely hailed as being just around the corner, but carmakers are struggling to compensate for one specific weather phenomenon: snow.

Vehicle safety regulators have said customers who buy Google's self-driving cars won't necessarily need a driver's license because the artificial intelligence system piloting the car will be considered the legal driver.

The Department of Energy would push more than $6.1 billion into its cleanup efforts at radioactive waste sites across the country under President Obama's fiscal 2017 budget proposal.

This year may be the worst for the mining industry, which has seen a 73 percent plunge from a 2011 peak.

Peabody Energy Corp. had a worse fourth quarter than expected, closing out 2015 by dropping $518.8 million as many forecasters predict the nation's largest coal company may soon join its peers in bankruptcy.

Roughly 200 million pounds of methane has leaked out of the Aliso Canyon storage well near Los Angeles since last fall, and workers have struggled to plug it for months.

Some public health experts are calling the rapid spread of the Zika virus an unfortunate preview of the inevitable threats climate change is sure to bring about in years to come.

The head of BP PLC yesterday called on governments to take more action to encourage a shift to lower-carbon fuels.

The Supreme Court's decision to halt President Obama's climate rule for power plants won't stop California from moving ahead.

If any of the former Freedom Industries officials linked to a 2014 chemical spill are sent to prison, it will be a rare exception in the world of pollution crimes.

The American Thoracic Society has joined the widening legal battle over U.S. EPA's new ozone standard.

A federal judge is ordering the White House's science office to turn over documents following a conservative think tank's Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

Federal judges are weighing a state challenge to a new U.S. EPA model to estimate vehicle emissions.

Eight people have spent the past few winters living off the land in Yellowstone National Park for a month, collecting scraps of hunted buffalo and teaching themselves the traditional skills to make use of those parts.

Watching pornography isn't normally on the list of things one can do to help save the whales, but one of the world's largest porn websites is aiming to save the aquatic mammals.

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