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A new trend toward slower, more story-based video games includes one centered around serving as a fire lookout for the U.S. Forest Service.

A new study has painted a grim seismic scenario for areas in Southern California, depicting how two of the state's most active fault lines could rupture together, causing a magnitude-7.5 earthquake.

SeaWorld will end its controversial orca breeding program.

The Interior Department today canceled a contentious oil and gas lease near Glacier National Park and the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana.

Republican state representatives played a role in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation earlier this year.

Concern about climate change among Americans is at an eight-year high, according to Gallup's annual environmental survey released yesterday.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) trashed President Obama's legacy on energy and climate today, saying his state has "taken a heck of a beating" under White House policies.

Senate Democrats have proposed legislation to give a substantial pay raise to federal employees.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said today that confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland after the November election is possible, but urged recalcitrant Republicans to not wait for the lame-duck session.

Republican lawmakers on both sides of Capitol Hill today introduced a bill to end courts' controversial practice of deferring to agencies' expertise on rulemaking.

U.S. EPA is joining state officials in criticizing a Southern California air agency for failing to reduce air pollution as much as it could.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder pushed back today against U.S. EPA efforts to blame his administration for the contaminated Flint, Mich., water supply.

Two of the rumored finalists for President Obama's Supreme Court nomination were scheduled to hear oral arguments together in a federal appeals court this morning.

Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland and Chief Justice John Roberts haven't always agreed. Consider the case of the "hapless toad" -- one of the better-known conservation decisions of both judges, which demonstrates divergent opinions about the reach of environmental protections.

Following a heated oversight hearing in the House on the Flint water crisis, what are the next steps for U.S. EPA officials and top-ranking members of the Michigan government? On today's The Cutting Edge, E&E Daily reporter Tiffany Stecker discusses the fallout from this week's contentious House hearing and the future of a federal aid package in the Senate.

Japan will send the largest shipment of weapons-grade plutonium since 1992 to the United States as early as this weekend, according to Greenpeace.

Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg posted a photo on the social media site of him and five others jogging through Tiananmen Square in China's capital amid a cloak of thick smog.

Colorado regulators said yesterday they will start a huge recall of tainted marijuana grown with unapproved pesticides.

New Mexico's top environmental official said the state will keep pursuing its lawsuit against U.S. EPA even if it does get reimbursed for the $1.5 million it spent after the Gold King mine spill.

In Cleveland, residents have no central database of homes that have received lead abatement, making it hard to know where people should live to protect their health.

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