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The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources will no longer operate a major venue at the state fair, ending a seven-decade tradition.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller had been fined for inadequate reporting of his campaign finances during his 2014 run for office.

An Ohio GOP lawmaker submitted an amendment to the final version of the state Senate budget last week that would bring back the wind industry after a two-year absence.

A development boom is spreading toxic soil in what was once Philadelphia's industrial hub.

Dawn Chapman heard U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's promise to clean up West Lake Landfill, a nuclear waste dump in Missouri, with surprise and skepticism.

Lake Ontario flooded towns in upstate New York over the weekend, and local officials are already playing the blame game.

Chinese tech companies are pushing the newest trend in electric vehicles: high-performance luxury cars.

The only scientific laboratory for testing the plutonium cores of nuclear weapons has been on an extended shutdown, threatening the U.S. arsenal.

Peabody Energy Corp. is fighting a lawsuit that claims it colluded with police in the unlawful arrest of protesters at its 2013 shareholder meeting in Wyoming.

The Supreme Court won't review a lower court's decision to block a multibillion-dollar judgment against Chevron Corp. for alleged environmental damage in Ecuador.

Large wildfires in the Great Plains have more than tripled in the last three decades, according to new research.

Four months after winter storms hammered the part of California's coast known as Big Sur, vehicles still cannot get in or out of the area after a bridge collapsed in the north and landslides covered chunks of highway in the south.

Moths and other pests are causing bigger problems than expected in Allegheny National Forest, threatening valuable black cherry trees and other species.

Bering Sea fishermen in Alaska are losing an ongoing battle against killer whales.

Wilderness advocates are concerned that language allowing oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could end up being included in the fiscal 2018 budget resolution as part of the fast-track reconciliation process.

A top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee introduced a bill last week that would ensure that the federal government accounts for climate change in national security strategies.

Tim Charters, a former congressional staffer with nearly 20 years of experience on Capitol Hill, today joined the National Ocean Industries Association as senior director of governmental and political affairs.

Murray Energy Corp., the nation's largest privately held coal company, is threatening to sue HBO late-night talk show host and comedian John Oliver.

U.S. EPA employees' fitness benefits are now on the Trump administration's budget chopping block.

A key U.S. EPA scientific research grant program has produced an array of benefits, but the agency needs to do a better job of sharing the results with the public, according to a report by a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine review committee released this morning.

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