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An explosion and fire at two oil storage tanks aboard a platform in Louisiana's Bayou Sorrel yesterday morning left one tank partially collapsed, although two workers aboard the platform were not injured, Coast Guard officials said.

The world's largest publicly held coal company put off a key corporate debt payment yesterday, acknowledging it may need to file for federal bankruptcy protection.

Institutional investors are lining up behind a German lawsuit against Volkswagen AG in seeking $3.57 billion in damages over the company's emissions scandal.

Two bullet casings that might have shown proof FBI agents shot at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupier Robert "LaVoy" Finicum earlier this year are said to have gone missing from the scene.

Vermont Law School has topped U.S. News & World Report's list of America's best environmental law schools for the eighth consecutive year.

A federal judge ordered U.S. EPA yesterday to finish two overdue air pollution source reviews by October 2017, a tighter schedule than the agency had wanted.

New Zealand's population of southern right whales was hunted nearly to extinction during the 19th century, and it would take at least 60 more years to recover fully if climate change doesn't harm them, according to new research.

Alaska regulators are investigating after state workers killed a wounded wolf on federal land from a helicopter.

The Bureau of Land Management is facing a lawsuit from environmental groups over plans to allow oil, gas and coal extraction in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry yesterday pushed to take over lawsuits that three parishes filed against oil and gas companies accusing them of damaging wetlands.

Up to 70 percent of the coastline stretching from Maine to Virginia is likely to change rather than simply be inundated over the next several decades in response to sea-level rise, a study led by the U.S. Geological Survey has found.

Wealthy environmental activist Tom Steyer called Donald Trump a "a racist and a liar" Monday.

James Connaughton has a new title: CEO.

The House's top watchdog is requesting federal agencies active in energy and environmental policy to shed more light on their employee bonuses.

Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin has introduced legislation to kick-start technologies to protect water resources.

The Senate failed to reach agreement today on a voluntary national labeling system for genetically engineered food ingredients, putting new pressure on lawmakers to address the issue before mandatory labeling takes effect in Vermont in July.

The House Natural Resources Committee this morning passed with bipartisan support a bill to provide new revenue to the 100-year-old National Park Service.

A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee markup this morning of draft pipeline safety legislation generated heated debate on nearly a dozen issues ranging from technology to emergency authority, signaling roadblocks that lie ahead for the measure.

Utah state Rep. Ken Ivory (R), a leading figure in the push to transfer federal lands to states, used his state email account to promote his nonprofit, the American Lands Council, and lied about it to investigators, according to a complaint filed today by a watchdog group.

Republicans today signaled they'll stand firm in their opposition to considering the nomination of federal appeals court Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.

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