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Florida wildlife officials are asking people to stop painting the shells of live tortoises and turtles.

Zion National Park rangers are struggling to keep up with large crowds as visitation is booming in the Utah tourist hot spot.

The nation's rural electric cooperatives are calling for lawmakers to cut multiple provisions from energy reform legislation.

Despite verbal support from the energy sector, presidential hopeful Donald Trump has seen dismal fundraising from donors in the industry.

The Sierra Club today endorsed Missouri's Democratic Secretary of State Jason Kander in his bid to unseat Republican Sen. Roy Blunt.

Evan McMullin, a House Republican aide for the past several years, is making an independent run for the White House.

Physician Jill Stein accepted the Green Party's presidential nomination on Saturday and used her acceptance speech to rally supporters of failed Democratic presidential primary contender Bernie Sanders to back her third-party bid for the White House.

Deadline-driven lawsuits speed Endangered Species Act protections for imperiled species, according to a peer-reviewed study released online today.

The Bureau of Land Management last Friday finalized a sweeping plan to increase timber harvests on millions of acres of federal forests in western Oregon, drawing fire from both pro- and anti-logging camps.

Donald Trump has suggested he'd abolish U.S. EPA as president, but at least two agency employees have cut checks to help him win the White House.

ROCKY FLATS NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE — The Fish and Wildlife Service is waging a two-front battle in its effort to open this refuge to the public. The first is against invasive grasses that have taken over the tallgrass prairie. More complex is the fight against public fear that the refuge is unsafe because of its past as the site of a nuclear weapons plant.

A drilling rig ran aground on the Isle of Lewis in northwestern Scotland yesterday, having broken free from a towing vessel transporting it from Norway to Malta.

The Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection announced it will spend 430 billion yuan ($65 billion) to improve the country's water supplies.

The social costs associated with lead-contaminated drinking water in Flint, Mich., amount to $395 million, according to an analysis by a Columbia University professor.

District officials in Portland, Ore., knew that public school water fountains emitted water that contained lead and experienced several problems trying to correct the problems with water filters, district records show.

Oil and gas operations are directly contributing to summertime ozone problems in Colorado's populous northern Front Range area, a new study has found.

Electricity consumers in at least seven states could be billed up to $2.5 billion for nuclear plants that will never be built, according to regulatory filings.

Exelon Corp., a Chicago-based energy company with holdings in natural gas and nuclear power, today announced plans to buy the FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego County, N.Y.

A larger Western electricity market won't happen until next year at the earliest, as green groups and others voice concerns about increased coal use.

Lawyers are using once-classified documents to argue that sick nuclear weapons workers who once worked at South Carolina's Savannah River Site should be eligible for federal benefits.

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