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San Diego County officials are considering allowing more development across thousands of acres of private lands within the protected Cleveland National Forest.

The United States must change its process for protecting endangered species to reduce lawsuits and mistrust, Wyoming's governor said yesterday.

A coalition of environmental groups has filed a legal challenge seeking to overturn the Fish and Wildlife Service's decision last year not to list an isolated population of sage grouse along the California-Nevada border for protection under the Endangered Species Act.

The animal that inspired the teddy bear will be officially removed from the Fish and Wildlife Service's list of threatened species in just over a month, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced today.

In a head-snapping 24 hours, Virginia Republicans nominated a controversial, climate change-denying former attorney general to the state's Supreme Court, but he then withdrew his nomination.

Major solar power companies have expanded their presence in the influence industry.

A political action committee called Climate Hawks Vote today endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders after the public voted for the Vermont senator in the group's "climate primary."

The California Coastal Commission tapped its senior deputy director as interim boss yesterday, a month after ousting longtime Executive Director Charles Lester in a controversial vote.

The powerful Southern California air agency that ousted its executive director last week is already facing attacks from Democrats and environmentalists seeking to force it onto a greener path.

The White House's nominee to become the State Department's first assistant secretary for energy resources cleared a key procedural hurdle today, despite a barrage of criticism from Republican senators about what they call the Obama administration's confusing lines of authority for international energy policy.

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) signaled today that he would continue to block an agreement to revive Senate energy reform legislation and the Flint, Mich., aid package as long as an amendment to expand offshore drilling revenue sharing remained in the mix.

When former Interior Department lawyer William Myers was picked by President George W. Bush for a federal appeals court seat, government investigators grilled his family and friends about his personal habits and finances. He was sharply criticized by hostile Senate Democrats during two grueling confirmation hearings.

President Obama's short list for a Supreme Court nominee has reportedly been narrowed to five federal judges.

An oil and gas driller is on the hook for the high-profile case of Pennsylvania water contamination that has stoked opposition to hydraulic fracturing across the country for years, a jury decided today.

U.S. EPA plans to regulate methane from existing oil and gas operations under a U.S.-Canada climate agreement announced today.

How will this week's climate announcement between the United States and Canada affect the global momentum on cutting greenhouse gas emissions? On today's The Cutting Edge, ClimateWire reporter Jean Chemnick discusses the next steps for the United States as U.S. EPA runs up against a tight timeline to move regulations to limit methane emissions from existing oil and gas operations.

China will continue to protect the environment even though its economy is slowing, the country's environment minister said today.

An avalanche has killed the director of an Oregon avalanche center who taught winter survival skills and awareness courses.

New York City once had 220,000 acres of oyster reef, but as the city dwellers consumed the bounty, they also ate away a natural barrier that could have protected the city from storms like Superstorm Sandy, according to a new study.

A team of Japanese researchers have found a bacterium that can break down plastic.

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