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An employee at a mountaintop restaurant in Colorado shot a black bear after it entered the establishment.

A Wisconsin floodplain previously considered for a contentious nuclear power plant could now be state property.

Florida's health department said last night that a new case of the Zika virus in the state could have come from a local mosquito in what would be the first transmission of its kind in the continental United States.

California regulators found that at least 1,190 homes in the Vernon area near a former battery recycler are contaminated with high lead levels -- some as much as 100 times above state health standards.

A coalition of public health groups has joined the call for a steep cut in nitrogen oxides emissions limits for large trucks.

The Interior Department issued a long-awaited letter to Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake yesterday to assure him that Lake Mead's surplus water was safe.

Many of the drilling rig workers who were laid off during the oil bust have found jobs in other sectors and may not return if the industry recovers, according to a survey conducted by the firm Evercore ISI.

Federal officials are investigating long-standing defects in the bolts used in underwater oil and gas drilling equipment that could have the potential to cause "catastrophic failure" similar to the scale of BP PLC's Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010.

A former investigator at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission who helped prosecute oil and gas firms in high-profile manipulation cases has joined the D.C.-based law firm Akin Gump's global energy practice.

One California group thinks cloning long-lived giant sequoias and coastal redwoods can help reverse climate change.

U.S. District Judge Robert Jones ruled yesterday that brothers Ammon and Ryan Bundy must remain in custody while they await trial on charges stemming from their 41-day armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge earlier this year.

Pipeline owner Enbridge Energy Partners LP and affiliates would pay $177 million in penalties, spill prevention measures and reimbursements in a proposed settlement to resolve violations stemming from its 2010 oil spills in Michigan and Illinois.

Researchers at the University of Florida have successfully bred Pacific blue tangs for the first time in captivity.

The once-paved parking lot at Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park has been jackhammered to bits and carted away, and the adjoining gift shop has been torn down, leaving only tire-rutted dirt.

The National Marine Fisheries Service will issue a five-year permit that allows Apache Alaska Corp. to harass endangered beluga whales during seismic testing in Cook Inlet.

A federal judge has greenlighted a controversial lawsuit challenging the National Park Service's support for cattle ranching at Point Reyes National Seashore in California.

More than 60 percent of Senate Democrats signed onto a letter yesterday urging President Obama to promote diversity in public land management and protection.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced legislation last week that would open the door to a wish list of economic development projects in her home state, including oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and energy leasing in the Arctic Ocean.

Environmentalists presented federal coal regulators with a check for $3.86 billion today to mark the end of the public comment period on potential reforms to the controversial practice of self-bonding.

Dozens of environmental groups are looking to mobilize several thousand activists to march in downtown Philadelphia over the weekend to push for tougher action on climate concerns and put an end to hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas.

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