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A nominee for a U.S. EPA air advisory panel is rebutting a prominent senator's objections to her candidacy.

Battles between landowners and government regulators could be the center of environmental action in the Supreme Court's next term.

CLEVELAND -- Is the Grand Old Party showing signs of life on climate change?

CLEVELAND -- Conservationists. Clean energy advocates. The EcoRight. There's no unifying moniker for conservative green groups that descended on the Republican National Convention here this week, but activists did agree on this: Their ranks are growing, and they believe they can turn the tide on climate policy in the GOP before the 2020 election.

Tigers killed one woman and injured another after the women got out of their car at a wildlife park in Beijing.

New Zealand has announced the world's first predator extermination project in the hope of wiping out introduced species like rats, possums and stoats.

China has set up a 15 million yuan ($2.25 million) environmental protection fund for its developments in the South China Sea, the Xinhua state news agency said today.

After an Alaska community development nonprofit suspended operations in the Kuskokwim area, fishermen and families have struggled to make ends meet as their livelihood has been taken away.

A Colorado business coalition has reactivated to fight three ballot initiatives seen by industry as targeting oil and gas development in the Centennial State.

U.S. EPA on Friday took its first formal chemical regulatory action since reforms to the Toxic Substances Control Act were signed into law last month.

Officials have recovered about 40 percent of the more than 1,500 barrels of oil that spilled into a Canadian river since Thursday, when a pipeline in the North Saskatchewan River broke.

U.S. EPA is giving at least some portland cement manufacturers a temporary alternative to show they are meeting hydrogen chloride emission standards.

The researchers who uncovered the Volkswagen emissions discrepancies that led to the company's agreeing to a $15 billion settlement has struggled with funding for years.

General Atomics has spent $40 million developing a new concept for nuclear energy that could create reactors so compact, they could be transported on a flatbed tractor trailer.

Underground coal gasification and coal chemical technologies are a "major threat" to the environment and threaten the world's effort to control catastrophic climate change, according to a new report from the environmental group Friends of the Earth.

Each automobile used for one-way car sharing can eliminate up to 11 private vehicles from the roads and cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report.

The Obama administration pushed back Friday against accusations it handed an incomplete record to the court handling a challenge to the Clean Water Rule.

A Maine nonprofit will move 10 common loon chicks to an area south of Boston this summer, with a goal to bolster the bird's low numbers in the Bay State.

Officials at Glacier National Park are deploying a dog named Gracie to herd mountain goats and bighorn sheep and help keep them away from park visitors.

A guide leading tourists down Grand Teton mountain in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park died Saturday after falling 2,400 feet down a rappel route and into a canyon.

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