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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says it has recovered 517 containers of "unidentified, potentially hazardous material" from highly contaminated toxic waste sites in Texas that flooded last month during Hurricane Harvey. The...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Ajit Pai has been to Texas and Florida in recent weeks to learn what lessons hurricanes Harvey and Irma have to offer about how to improve the nation's emergency communication systems during natural disasters. Pai, the chairman...

DENVER (AP) — Colorado health officials say low-level radioactive waste from the oil and gas industry has been buried illegally in landfills that aren't approved to handle it. State Department of Public Health and Environment officials said they...

HOUSTON (AP) — Immigrants came from across Houston to a Baptist church gymnasium and stacked dollies with boxes of cereal, orange juice and household necessities like cleaning bleach. For many of them, the church was the safest place to seek...

PASADENA, Texas (AP) — The U.S. government received reports of three spills at one of Houston's dirtiest Superfund toxic waste sites in the days after the drenching rains from Hurricane Harvey finally stopped. Aerial photos reviewed by The...

FAIRVIEW, Okla. (AP) — An earthquake has rattled parts of northwestern Oklahoma. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude 3.2 earthquake was recorded at 5:21 p.m. Tuesday about 18 miles northwest of Fairview, about 100 miles northwest of...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The city of Lawrence faces the need to truck 10 million gallons of nitrogen-contaminated water away from the former Farmland Industries fertilizer plant, while also dealing with increased water storage at the site and...

WILLCOX, Ariz. (AP) — Wildlife conservationists have released new video footage showing what is believed to be one of three jaguars to be seen in the United States in the past few years. The Center for Biological Diversity released the video taken...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The risk of wildfires is increasing in Oklahoma, thanks to hot, dry and breezy conditions across the state. The National Weather Service says there is an elevated chance of wildfires on Thursday and Friday, especially in...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An endangered Mexican gray wolf has been killed by federal employees after a Native American tribe requested the animal be removed from the wild in the wake of a string of cattle deaths near the Arizona-New Mexico border....

PLANO, Texas (AP) — An injured hawk that sought refuge in a Houston taxicab before Harvey made landfall last month has been returned to the wild. Cabdriver William Bruso dubbed the female Cooper's hawk "Harvey the Hurricane Hawk" in online videos...

With Harvey's floodwaters rapidly flowing into the Houston hotel where she worked, Jill Renick reportedly made a frantic cellphone call to a fellow employee: "I'm in an elevator. The water is rushing in. Please help me!" Those words were among the...

COVINGTON, Okla. (AP) — Four small earthquakes have been recorded across northern Oklahoma by the U.S. Geological Survey. No injuries or damage are reported. The strongest quakes were magnitude 3.1 and magnitude 3.0, both recorded about 5:30 p.m....

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Firefighters from the Oklahoma-based Osage Nation are headed to Montana to help fight wildfires. Television station KOTV reports thousands of acres of land have been scorched by wildfires in Montana, which has experienced...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin says the state is sending an emergency response team to Florida to help local communities recover from the impact of Hurricane Irma. Fallin says a 12-person operations support team is deploying to the...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A government report shows that planting for the 2018 winter wheat crop is now under way in Kansas. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that 3 percent of the wheat has been planted. That is equal for...

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — It is a bleak time to be a bee, and that's bad news for humans. The insects' population is declining in North America, the result of shrinking habitats and pesticide use, raising alarm about the future of species that play a key...

Imagine losing everything in a disaster like Hurricane Harvey, then having to list all of your possessions to file an insurance claim — every plate, holiday decoration and piece of clothing for starters. Without a home inventory, this would be the...

HOUSTON (AP) — A California geophysicist says the sheer weight of the torrential rains brought by Harvey has caused Houston to sink by 2 centimeters. Chris Milliner, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California...

MEDFORD, Okla. (AP) — An earthquake has rattled parts of northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas. The U.S. Geological Survey reports the magnitude-3.9 quake struck about 9 miles southeast of Medford, Oklahoma, on Thursday night. No injuries or...

MEDFORD, Okla. (AP) — An earthquake that rattled parts of northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas has been upgraded to magnitude 4.3. The U.S. Geological Survey initially reported the quake as magnitude 3.9 after it struck at 9:26 p.m. Thursday near...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Since Topeka resident Andrew Ginn woke up to a bat resting on the back of his head, he has learned more about bats in Kansas than he ever wanted to know. And now, he's hoping to share that knowledge with as many Kansas citizens...

BERGER, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Department of Natural Resources says there are no indications that any of the hazardous material in an eastern Missouri floodplain is being released to the environment. A federal indictment alleges that nine million...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Faced with the looming threat of dual disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday ramped up preparations for Hurricane Irma as it barreled toward the Florida coast even as the agency continued the massive...

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston-area neighborhoods that were full of Harvey's floodwater last week are now full of debris: waterlogged furniture, ruined appliances and soggy carpet and Sheetrock piled up in front yards. It's not pretty, but it shows that...