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An Idaho railway is expected to be cleared today after 31 train cars carrying soda ash derailed Wednesday morning.

Sinking oil prices leading to fewer riders has Amtrak making budget cuts, CEO Joe Boardman wrote in a letter to employees this week.

A new report finds that for every $1 farmers spent on crop insurance in the last 15 years, they received more than twice that amount back in payouts, according to the Environmental Working Group.

The Department of Defense should do more to "identify and mitigate" potential rare earth element supply concerns tied to key weapons systems, the Government Accountability Office said in a new report.

Three federal agencies will work together to study the safety of synthetic crumb rubber turf, officials said today.

Eating local in the Midwest can be difficult this time of year, and while some believe greenhouses can meet year-round local produce demands, there's a problem with that solution: The structures can be energy-intensive.

An energy company said it is working to determine why a 113-foot-long blade fell from one of its turbines in central New York yesterday morning.

The American Petroleum Institute has sued U.S. EPA over the renewable fuel standard.

Four environmental and conservation groups today said they would sue the Fish and Wildlife Service over its decision to allow logging and habitat destruction for northern long-eared bats.

A former executive at Freedom Industries, the chemical company that fouled the water of hundreds of thousands of Charleston, W.Va.-area residents more than two years ago, will spend 30 days in jail and pay a $20,000 fine, a federal judge ruled yesterday.

American flags were placed yesterday afternoon along the main streets of the Oregon towns of Burns and Hines, marking a special occasion: the end of the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters.

With the last armed Oregon occupier's surrender yesterday to the FBI, birders and environmentalists exhaled, as they had been growing increasingly worried over how the standoff would affect bird migration.

The staff of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge are "relieved" the occupation at the Fish and Wildlife Service facility is over and are gearing up for a long process to clean up and restore the site.

The family of the final occupier of an Oregon wildlife refuge worried that the 27-year-old would follow through on threats he'd made to commit "suicide by cop."

An Imax 3-D documentary that captures the mega-sized proportions of North American geology is scheduled for global release today.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Ocean Prediction Center said it projected "hazardous seas" in the Atlantic Ocean days before a cruise ship headed into the path of a forceful storm.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has asked Congress to fund a new research center on Puget Sound, after years of concerns over the current building's safety.

The Obama administration and Montana regulators today approved the construction of a controversial mine that could become one of the world's largest copper and silver operations.

California Coastal Commission members are more closely managing agency staff and working to please developers, said Charles Lester, the recently fired executive director.

The Republican presidential field seems to be gradually softening on -- if not accepting -- the issue of climate change.

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