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The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee unanimously passed a bill today that would reauthorize a 40-year-old law giving states leverage over federal projects off their shores.

The House Natural Resources Committee today approved 24-14 a bill to transfer management of red snapper fisheries from the federal government to Gulf of Mexico states, but only after losing three key Republican votes.

Activists who fought the Keystone XL pipeline and are pushing to end the use of eminent domain for new oil and gas projects are targeting a rally for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in Georgia today.

U.S. EPA must impose a federal air pollution implementation plan on Texas to meet a "good neighbor" requirement to limit releases of fine particulates that cross state lines, a federal judge ruled yesterday.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) vowed to keep talking on the Senate floor today until Republican leaders agree to consider gun control amendments, throwing a wrench into plans to pass the Commerce, Justice and Science Subcommittee spending bill.

HUDSON, Wis. -- Meet the Murrs: A tight-knit Wisconsin family whose cozy summer cabin -- and the vacant lot next to it -- have put them in the middle of a bitter legal fight that's made it all the way to the Supreme Court. The stakes for landowners and regulators across the country are high.

The upcoming G20 summit is 79 days away, but its host nation of China is already preparing.

The European Union yesterday announced it would begin a formal infringement procedure to stop Poland from increasing logging in the Bialowieza Forest.

Two small bush planes are flying toward the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica in an attempt to perform a medical evacuation of two workers.

The strict macho "rig code" that oil and gas platform workers adhere to is fading away for an unlikely reason: vulnerability.

The latest report from Utah's water agency has state regulators calling for study of Lake Powell and sections of the San Juan River to determine if last summer's Gold King mine wastewater spill in Colorado affected those bodies of water.

Chesapeake Bay watershed states are overall behind schedule in reaching nitrogen-pollution-reduction goals, U.S. EPA Region 3 Administrator Shawn Garvin said today.

Environmental groups may be shifting their long-held views of nuclear power.

An oil and gas exploration company is seeking punitive and compensatory damages from Southern Co. for allegedly misleading it about delays at the country's first planned carbon capture project on a large coal-fired power plant.

An Oregon man yesterday pleaded guilty to negligently selling endangered wildlife parts after he advertised for sale on his website "old tribal artifacts" that included orangutan skulls, among other merchandise crafted from endangered species.

Roughly 380 gallons of contaminated water from a Montana power plant is leaking every minute out of its storage ponds despite a 2012 agreement to stop the contamination.

Jason Blomgren, a defendant in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation case, pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal conspiracy charge.

Business advocates are declaring victory in some big decisions made by the Supreme Court this term.

Despite this week's fatal incident at a Disney World resort, alligator attacks are still rare, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Bison ranchers in South Dakota have taken to bottle-feeding a 150-pound calf named Reggie after he was abandoned by his herd.

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