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U.S. EPA yesterday issued a draft of its stormwater general permit for construction, the Clean Water Act permit covering the majority of developments in the country.

Hot off the successful launch of the Great Green Fleet in January, the Navy is planning to spread the biofuel gospel and encourage other nations to transition to blended fuel.

U.S. EPA Region 9 Administrator Jared Blumenfeld, based in San Francisco and serving numerous Western states and tribes, will be leaving the agency in the coming weeks.

Water from a dam in the southwest province of China is being released to help mitigate a drought in Southeast Asia, the country's foreign ministry said today, following a release last month.

The El Niño weather phenomenon has brought more snow to Yosemite National Park in California than the area has seen in years.

Farmers trying to cut back on irrigation may soon be taking tips from golf courses.

A former Energy Department employee has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for offering to help a foreign government steal the agency's nuclear secrets, then attempting an email "spear-phishing" attack on DOE employees.

A federal judge yesterday vacated the Department of the Interior's decision to remove the site of a 1921 coal miner uprising in West Virginia, the nation's largest-ever labor battle, from the National Register of Historic Places.

Environmental activists are protesting Poland's plan to log Europe's last primeval forest, demanding full protection for the country's rare Bialowieza woods, located in the northeast part of the country.

Rare and incredibly shy yellow-eyed penguins that inhabit the hills on New Zealand's South Island have always been difficult to spot, but recently the species has become even harder to locate.

Across Africa, people are searching for wealth by climbing down gold shafts long closed by some of the world's biggest miners.

Searchers are trying to rescue two skiers stuck on an Alaska glacier.

Wildfire yesterday ravaged thousands of acres of Everglades National Park, threatening to damage habitat for an endangered bird.

The combined effects of climate change and copper-contaminated wetlands could accelerate population extinction of the southern toad and the southern leopard frog, according to a new study published in the journal Ecological Applications.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill likely contributed to an uptick in the deaths of juvenile dolphins, whose mothers suffered chronic illnesses from oil exposure, according to the latest study on a yearslong "unusual mortality event" in the Gulf of Mexico.

Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. is dropping a class of chemicals that some have linked to bee and butterfly deaths.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) is touting a new climate-change-denying film that will be screened in Washington, D.C., later this year.

Following a breakfast meeting this morning among Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, the White House is reinforcing its request to move the confirmation process forward.

A House panel is asking U.S. EPA to turn over confidential financial disclosure forms filed by dozen of members of two key advisory committees.

Interest groups are continuing to press for the inclusion of tax breaks in the Senate's Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill as members, staff and lobbyists wait for the much-anticipated tax title to surface.

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