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Environmentalists are teaming up with other liberal groups to pressure Republican senators in their home states over President Obama's Supreme Court nominee.

The nation's crumbling water infrastructure has left states unprepared for oncoming threats to water supply and quality, U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said today.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and her top deputy are in Harney County, Ore., today to visit the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and speak with federal employees and local officials affected by the 40-day occupation led by anti-federal lands activist Ammon Bundy.

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- The real estate market in this coastal city ranks as the country's most expensive, with homes listing for an average of $2.3 million, according to Coldwell Banker.

With drought gripping more than 12 percent of the Lower 48 states, President Obama today used his executive powers to expand federal efforts to reduce the nation's vulnerability to drought.

The Supreme Court won't hear a coal mining company's appeal in a takings case, despite the company's warnings of "far-reaching consequences" for West Virginia's energy industry.

Top U.S. climate diplomat Todd Stern will step down from his post at the end of next week, the State Department announced today.

How can existing climate finance sources be scaled up in innovative ways to help mitigate loss? During today's OnPoint, Barbara Buchner, senior director of the Climate Policy Initiative and the head of the secretariat for the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance, discusses post-Paris opportunities for financing climate resiliency. Buchner talks about the critical financing elements that remain undefined following last December's historic climate agreement.

India has the largest number of people who do not have access to clean water, according to a new report from the international charity WaterAid.

China's coal consumption is exacerbating a severe water shortage in the northern part of the country, according to a new report from Greenpeace.

A call to let the Internet choose the name of the United Kingdom's new polar research vessel has led to some interesting proposals.

Every year, hundreds of children in Baltimore are poisoned with lead, despite the city's success in drastically decreasing the cases of lead poisoning over the past 15 years.

Traditional rice farming uses a lot of water, but a California farm will collaborate with Israeli experts to test drip irrigation for the grain.

Four mines along Canada's Alaskan border with the United States use the same techniques that led to the worst mining disaster in Canadian history, according to a new report urging changes to protect watersheds in both countries.

With few long-range electric vehicles on the road, the auto industry received mostly failing grades in a new report card tracking the industry's electrification progress.

Chicken farmers are excited at the prospect of more business in Cuba, which already has imported more than $1 billion of American chicken in the past 15 years.

An activist investor is pushing SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. to make more changes after the company said it would end its controversial killer whale shows.

Technology giant Apple Inc. is making another clean energy push with the help of a robot that dismantles iPhones.

The Obama administration today extended the comment period on a proposed rule to limit methane emissions from roughly 100,000 oil and gas wells on federal and tribal lands.

Prominent scientists and ocean conservationists today called on the Interior Department to keep in place the moratorium on fracking and other well stimulation techniques offshore from California until more scientific data is in.

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