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Oil production on federal lands has increased sharply for the 10th consecutive year, according to a new analysis by a government watchdog group that was immediately dismissed as misleading by the industry.

A New Mexico rancher who traveled to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in January to renounce his grazing contract with the Forest Service has been considered a potential safety threat to federal employees, according to an internal alert distributed by federal lands agencies.

Big corporations are growing increasingly uneasy over how closely they should be linked to the upcoming Republican National Convention, where businessman Donald Trump could be nominated as the party's presidential candidate.

Bold Nebraska, the progressive political group that played a key role in blocking the northern route of the Keystone XL pipeline, is expanding its reach to other rural, red states.

U.S. EPA has sent a proposal to the White House for review that would set a threshold for greenhouse gases that would trigger permitting requirements for emissions sources.

The United States and China will sign the Paris climate change agreement on April 22 and formally adopt it as soon as possible, the White House said today ahead of a bilateral meeting between President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds (R) is holding a field hearing in his home state this afternoon to evaluate the Army Corps of Engineers' work on the Missouri River.

The House Science, Space and Technology Committee yesterday subpoenaed Phil North, the elusive former U.S. EPA scientist who advocated for the agency taking action against the Pebble mine project in southwestern Alaska.

Vancouver, British Columbia-based Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. says it has no plans to back away from one of the planet's richest gold and copper deposits in Alaska's Bristol Bay region despite failing to attract a much-needed big-time investor.

The director of U.S. EPA's Air Enforcement Division found himself on the sidelines as the federal government moved against Volkswagen over the company's emissions cheating scheme.

Michael Sackett, who beat U.S. EPA in a big Supreme Court case, has been in the news again this week as the justices heard another case over water permits.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Obama administration environmental attorneys are hustling to wrap up their work before their time in office runs out. With less than a year left before the next president takes over, that means polishing major environmental regulations but also hunkering down to defend the swath of major regulations now tied up in the courts, including the Clean Power Plan.

This week, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. released its unclassified summary of its latest GridEx exercise, which tested how utility participants would handle a blackout following a cyber and physical attack on the U.S. grid. How vulnerable is the grid to an attack like the one simulated at GridEx, and how should state regulators take the lessons learned from the exercise to formulate a plan of action? On today's The Cutting Edge, EnergyWire reporter Peter Behr discusses the unclassified summary's details and next steps.

A road development project that slices through a nature reserve just outside Kenya's capital city poses threats to wildlife, livestock and people, conservationists said today, a warning that followed the death of two lions earlier this week.

Two Chinese forest rangers were killed in a fire ignited by people burning fake paper money and incense during a traditional ceremony in honor of deceased ancestors, state media said today.

A wildlife ranger who was returning from a mission to track endangered gorillas was killed yesterday by a group of suspected rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society.

China's neighbors to the south are harmed by its massive dams, activists contend.

Chemical company DuPont Co. will shut down a La Porte, Texas, pesticide plant where four workers were killed in 2014.

The number of children known to have autism spectrum disorder has remained steady at about 1 in 68, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a shift from previous trends.

Companies will see increased disclosure of chemical information in California under state regulations taking effect today.

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