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There are at least 165 million plastic particles traveling through New York Harbor and neighboring waters at any given time, the NY/NJ Baykeeper environmental group found in a new report.

California's Aliso Canyon gas storage facility was one of the industry's worst polluters even before it started leaking methane for months.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz will travel to California tomorrow to tour the Aliso Canyon underground storage facility and receive an in-depth briefing on the methane leak in the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles County.

The blimp that strayed from an Army facility in Maryland last year, damaging power lines and knocking out electricity with its mile-long tether, managed to fly around without a pilot for hours because someone failed to insert batteries into its automatic-deflation device, a Pentagon investigation found.

After heated debate, Nevada's utility regulator voted this weekend to require residents with solar panels to pay a new, less generous meter rate, angering solar owners who hoped to keep their previous rates.

The Energy Department is hoping to spend $80 million studying whether high-level nuclear waste can be stored below the earth in rural North Dakota, but local and state opposition has slowed work on this potential replacement to the shuttered Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository.

Climate change is "a very particular kind of threat," global defense and foreign affairs ministers said this weekend as they met in Munich to discuss top security concerns.

Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes (R) is moving to sue U.S. EPA after reports the agency failed to tell the state about pollution levels stemming from the Gold King mine blowout last year.

Valero Energy Corp. is adding to the court challenges against U.S. EPA's renewable fuel standard.

The grounding of a giant iceberg has killed 150,000 penguins in a single colony in Antarctica.

A public-private partnership is funding a three-year program to improve the Midwest habitats of the endangered monarch butterfly and honeybee.

Regulators should not allow Peabody Energy Corp. to guarantee $255 million for potential cleanup of coal mines in Illinois and Indiana in light of its "rapidly deteriorating financial condition," according to a Chicago-based environmental group.

A coalition of Ohio and Michigan Democrats unveiled legislation last week to help poor families pay for water and sewer bills.

In 2014, environmental groups won a long fight to require farmers who use federal crop insurance to adopt conservation plans. Soon, Congress will find out how the idea is working.

An Oregon Democrat is pushing legislation aimed at shielding the identity of the police officer who killed Malheur National Wildlife Refuge standoff spokesman Robert "LaVoy" Finicum.

DENVER -- Protesters prayed, sang and waved American flags here Saturday in homage to LaVoy Finicum, the Arizona rancher who helped lead the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge until he was shot and killed by police.

Air pollution killed an estimated 5.5 million people worldwide in 2013, with the bulk of deaths concentrated in fast-growing China and India, according to data presented over the weekend at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The Interior Department announced today that a wealthy investor with a history of supporting the National Park Service has donated $18.5 million to a congressionally chartered charity that will help restore the Lincoln Memorial.

Oklahoma officials announced plans over the weekend for their most comprehensive restrictions yet on oil and gas disposal, after the state was shaken by the largest earthquake in more than four years.

With the Supreme Court having eight sitting justices divided evenly among ideological lines in the wake of Justice Antonin Scalia's death, it won't be easy to secure majority opinions.

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