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The conservative-aligned ClearPath Action is taking aim at the League of Conservation Voters' annual scorecard -- which tends to favor Democratic lawmakers with high scores, while failing most Republicans -- asserting in a pair of new memorandums to congressional offices that the annual report is "unfair, inaccurate and biased."

PHILADELPHIA -- Karen Weaver, the mayor of Flint, Mich., yesterday chastised congressional Republicans during remarks to the Democratic National Convention for blocking several attempts to set aside hundreds of millions of dollars for the struggling city.

PHILADELPHIA -- Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse criticized the fossil fuel industry for lobbying against climate policies during a downtown event here this morning.

PHILADELPHIA -- Lobbyists and journalists surrounded Trevor Houser after a panel discussion on energy and the environment here this week.

A new study is casting doubt on the genetic differences among red wolves, eastern wolves and gray wolves -- a conclusion that could have major implications for how federal protections are applied to the controversial predators.

A federal court should take into account a case involving U.S. EPA's retroactive veto of a water permit for a mining project as it considers the legality of the Clean Power Plan, an opponent to the rule argued yesterday.

PHILADELPHIA -- Don't get former Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear (D) wrong: He thinks it's very important that Hillary Clinton win the White House in November.

A small, Colorado-based group has grown to have significant influence on the Bureau of Land Management, the nation's largest landlord. It's played a prominent role in President Obama's decisions to designate national monuments, helped launch and sustain dozens of "friends" groups and been a key driver in BLM's rebranding efforts.

Security forces in Ivory Coast this week began an operation to drive thousands of cocoa farmers out of a national park in the rainforest to preserve habitat for endangered chimpanzees and forest elephants, the government said yesterday.

Genetically modified mosquitoes were released Wednesday in the Cayman Islands in an effort to combat the Zika virus.

A 13-foot-tall research balloon broke free from its tether above Alaska's North Slope, triggering a hazard warning for aviators and causing researchers to lose thousands of dollars' worth of equipment, officials said yesterday.

An oil leak from a pipeline near the mouth of the Mississippi River spilled approximately 840 gallons into the marsh yesterday, according to the Coast Guard.

More than two years after unveiling its initial draft, U.S. EPA is close to wrapping up work on an overhaul of standards for radon releases from uranium processing facilities.

Wyoming's top environmental official called on the Obama administration this month to abandon its forthcoming stream protection rule as state regulators continue their last-ditch effort to block the coal mining regulation in its final stages of White House review.

A new battery recycling center in Nevada boasts a cleaner and cheaper process to recycle lead from lead-acid batteries.

One clean energy group wants Florida Power & Light Co. to replace its cooling canals for a nuclear power plant with cooling towers to reduce pollution and freshwater intake.

Specially adapted leaves atop giant sequoias in the Sierra Nevada are better at storing water than those closer to the ground, which may explain their resilience to ongoing drought in California, according to a study published in the American Journal of Botany.

Suncor Energy wants to leave some of its oil sands reserves in the ground.

An Italian court this week indicted former Eni SpA CEO Paolo Scaroni and eight others on bribery charges, alleging illicit involvement with an $8.8 billion contract in Algeria.

The environmental group Blue Water Baltimore filed a motion in federal court Wednesday in an effort to intervene in the update of a 14-year decree slated to give Baltimore another 14 years to fix sewage overflows.

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