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DENVER -- While tens of millions of acres of federal forests are at risk of disease and wildfire, there's little hope for thinning much of them unless there is a…

The Department of Agriculture is planning to reopen several conservation initiatives that have been stalled since the 2008 farm bill expired last fall. In a notice to state and county…

A bipartisan group of 13 Western senators yesterday urged the Obama administration to rethink its fiscal 2014 budget proposal to reduce the Forest Service's timber harvest target by 15 percent,…

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is urging the Obama administration to step up its efforts to make agency facilities more efficient. In a letter sent yesterday…

A bipartisan group of key senators today asked for a federal investigation into how much money the United States is channeling to a nuclear fusion project in France that has…

Activists opposed to the practice of mountaintop-removal coal mining are planning to bring "hundreds of gallons of toxic water" from their homes to lawmakers and U.S. EPA next week. The…

The leading Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce and Homeland Security committees have urged President Obama to assemble a blue-ribbon commission on chemical facility security in the aftermath of…

The presidents of the United States and Mexico yesterday touted progress in the U.S. Congress to approve a year-old agreement that would allow the joint development of oil and gas…

Amid criticism that it has not done enough to weed out conflicts of interest on its scientific review panels, U.S. EPA today announced a plan to add more transparency to…

Federal judges wrestled today with U.S. EPA air emissions standards for sewage incinerators that are taking fire from both industry and environmental groups. At issue are emissions limits for sewage…

More than a dozen attorneys general are urging U.S. EPA to resist calls from Northeastern states to regulate methane emissions from hydraulic fracturing operations, arguing that the push to regulate…

For the second time in a month, U.S. EPA is asking environmental groups to return another set of documents containing personal information of livestock producers. Allison Wiedeman, chief of the rural branch of EPA's Office of Wastewater Management, told environmental groups in a letter dated Tuesday and obtained by Greenwire that the agency accidentally provided too much information on livestock operations in Montana and Nebraska in its package of documents for 30 states.

As the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee moves forward with an energy efficiency measure this week, what could final passage of an efficiency bill mean more broadly for the…

About 200 Amazon Indians are protesting the controversial Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River, occupying the construction site and halting the work of 3,000 of the 22,000 workers on…

A plan to install a series of hydropower dams on the upper reaches of the Nu River in China has local environmentalists concerned. The ecologically diverse and fragile area is…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Areva SA have signed a $22 billion agreement to build a nuclear power plant in Turkey. The agreement marks the first major nuclear order for…

An isolated Alaska volcano thundered Saturday with three explosions and began releasing a continuous plume of ash, steam and gas into a vital area for air traffic, scientists said. The…

Lower temperatures aided firefighters as they battled a wildfire in Southern California yesterday that is expected to be completely managed today, an official said. The blaze dubbed the Springs fire…

After the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department sold about 100 longhorn cattle, Texans are debating the iconic animal's role in the state. About two-thirds of a 150- to 200-head longhorn…

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D) yesterday vetoed a bill that would have increased utility rates for Commonwealth Edison Co. customers. "We cannot allow big utilities to take over and run…

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