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POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE, Calif. -- Kevin Lunny thought the worst was over when he shuttered his Drakes Bay Oyster Co. here last year. His bitter fight with the Interior Department ended when the agency decided against renewing his lease. But Lunny's problems continue. His was among 20 ranches targeted by environmentalists in a lawsuit over federal management of grazing on public lands.

As momentum toward clean and alternative energy investments in the electric power sector grows, how are states that have chosen to suspend their Clean Power Plan planning balancing the demands of utilities for certainty with calls for the rule to be overturned by the courts? During today's OnPoint, Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy, discusses her organization's next steps as litigation on the power plan ramps up.

Thailand's capital will put a curfew in place during its annual water festival in solidarity with farmers dealing with a drought.

Indonesia is cracking down very visibly on poaching in its waters by blowing up the ships it seizes.

About 1 in 4 deaths worldwide are connected to unhealthy environments and are avoidable, shows the World Health Organization's first major environmental risk assessment since 2006.

In the wake of last week's devastating flooding in Louisiana, the state's National Guard warned that it would have had trouble responding quickly if proposed budget cuts had gone through.

Theodore Roosevelt's great-grandson will seek to extend the legacy of his conservationist ancestor today by asking organizations to fund the purchase of mineral and timber rights in Alaska's Chugach National Forest.

Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality yesterday advanced a set of emergency rules to end a loophole that allowed glassmakers to legally emit dangerous metals like arsenic and cadmium without safeguards.

More than a decade after a chemical factory closed in a Vermont village, residents there are joining others across the Northeast in staring down the polluted legacy of their industrial past.

After a weekend of heavy storms, California's two largest reservoirs have reached historically average levels.

U.S. EPA's Office of Inspector General plans to review whether the agency has properly represented the status of a new mold abatement technique, said a recent notification.

Moments before Chesapeake Energy Corp. founder Aubrey McClendon slammed into a bridge support he tapped his brakes, but the move was not enough to substantially slow his vehicle, which hit the bridge going 78 mph, police Chief Bill Citty said at a news conference.

A young Hotze "Harry" Koch set out for America to find his fortune in 1888, a figure that is taking on new meaning for Koch's billionaire grandsons Charles and David, whose money and influence have shaped the U.S. conservative movement.

The president of a Northern California tomato company is tangled in a legal battle with water regulators over waste and bad smells from its Williams, Calif., plant, and it's just the company's latest feud with the state.

Former Volkswagen AG employee Daniel Donovan filed a whistleblower lawsuit claiming that his fellow employees in Michigan illegally deleted electronic data following the U.S. government's announcement that the carmaker had cheated on its emissions tests.

Single travelers or pairs may face a lower avalanche risk than larger groups, according to a new study.

Experts tracking endangered right whales estimate half of the global population of about 500 animals has been spotted in the Cape Cod Bay over the past few springs, enticed by the plankton-rich waters.

Last week, the Pacific Fishery Management Council in Sacramento, Calif., voted in favor of new fishing gear that may replace drift gillnet use.

Nevada's Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe has seen its traditional way of life decline with water levels in parched Lake Lahontan.

The United Kingdom's Prince William today secured commitments from 40 transportation companies and international organizations to step up their efforts to reduce wildlife trafficking.

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