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Prosecutors have requested the maximum sentence for convicted ex-Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship of a year in prison and a $250,000 fine.

In the months leading up to a federal court hearing on President Obama's Clean Power Plan, activists are launching a coordinated public relations effort inspired by the campaign to legalize same-sex marriage.

U.S. EPA is standing by its decision to drop a legal shield for power producers that violate the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards because of equipment breakdowns.

Long before environmental activist and indigenous leader Berta Cáceres Flores was killed in her home in rural Honduras earlier this month, Beverly Bell had given up hope that her friend would reach an old age.

Experts want to start using individual health records for each endangered orca whale that spends time in the inland waters of Washington state.

Visitors attempting to take pictures of wildlife on their cellphones could be responsible for an uptick in the number of bison-related injuries recorded at Yellowstone National Park last year.

Nearly half of all House members are calling for appropriators to generously back the Land and Water Conservation Fund, a land buying and recreation program that briefly expired last year.

Southern California's air quality agency may appoint a former U.S. EPA official who is now an industry consultant as its new leader.

Left-leaning nonprofit research and educational group the Center for Progressive Reform has hired a longtime think tank spokesman as its new communications director.

Murray Energy Corp.'s outspoken CEO, Robert Murray, will host a fundraiser for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz next week, a company spokesman said today.

President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden today endorsed former White House Council on Environmental Quality chief Katie McGinty in Pennsylvania's competitive Democratic primary for Senate.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump would oppose a carbon tax if elected to the White House, according to documents released today by the American Energy Alliance, which offer the most detailed look at Trump's energy policies to date.

In a unique presidential primary season with the potential for a brokered Republican National Convention this July, GOP delegates headed to Cleveland might want to think of their votes less as ballots and more like golden tickets.

Forty-one companies have joined as founding partners of a new voluntary U.S. EPA program to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, the agency announced today.

The National Park Service proposed a philanthropy policy today that would expand opportunities for accepting donations and honor donors.

Supreme Court justices appear likely to smack down the government in another major clean water case. A majority of the justices today seemed dubious of the government's arguments that landowners shouldn't be able to challenge certain government decisions about water permits in court.

Nevada gold miner Efren Aguirre won $12.5 million at a casino slot machine last week.

A sheriff's office in northern Montana recently released footage taken from a dashboard camera on Sept. 13, 2014, when Montana Fish, Wildlife & Park warden Dirk Paulsen's truck was surrounded by two Fort Belknap tribal vehicles.