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The anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd has pledged to continue hounding Japanese whaling ships despite a U.S. court ruling ordering Sea Shepherd to cease the practice.

Scientists are working to implement several methods in concert with each other to prevent the invasive Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes.

Mediation efforts between Yosemite National Park's former concessions company and the federal government over trademark issues have failed, making room for a potentially drawn-out court battle.

A group of environmentalists parked themselves in front of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's office in New Orleans today, as part of the latest protest against new oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico.

The latest batch of Hillary Clinton's emails show a Democratic operative requested a meeting in 2009 between Secretary of State Clinton and officials from now-bankrupt Peabody Energy Corp.

Two-thirds of Americans want coal to remain in the mix of fuels generating the nation's electricity, according to a new poll from the National Mining Association.

White House contender Gary Johnson has been talking about the demise of coal generation since 2011, when he ended his GOP presidential bid and instead decided to seek the Libertarian nomination for president.

President Obama emphasized the threat of climate change in a presidential proclamation yesterday marking the National Park Service's centennial this week.

A team of researchers has developed a groundbreaking forecast system that could save utilities hundreds of millions of dollars by more efficiently integrating solar-generated electricity into the grid, a Boulder, Colo.-based research institution announced today.

Possible future leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are raising hundreds of thousands of dollars from energy and natural resources companies, but they are also collecting equally large sums from the telecommunications and health care industries that will draw the committee's attention in the next Congress.

The Center for Biological Diversity today threatened legal action against the Fish and Wildlife Service to jump-start the stalled Endangered Species Act status reviews of 417 imperiled species — a move that could set the stage for another major legal settlement between the conservation group and the agency.

ALLEGHENY NATIONAL FOREST, Pa. — For the U.S. Forest Service, this northwest Pennsylvania forest is the "land of many uses," where recreation and oil and gas production have overlapped since the early 1920s. For environmentalist Laurie Barr, the Allegheny's an accident waiting to happen. On a recent visit, Barr pointed to a mound of spent charcoal just 30 feet from the gray pipe of a gas well poking out of the ground. "People don't know the difference between a clearing for a well and a clearing for a campsite," she said. "It just confounds me that the forest hasn't blown up yet."

Monarch butterflies in North America are under threat due to extreme weather events that slammed forests in central Mexico, where monarchs migrate.

Hundreds of thousands of dead fish known as peanut bunker washed up on a creek in New Jersey this week, according to state officials.

Oregon has yet to appoint an administrator for its Department of Environmental Quality, six months after the former director resigned amid an air pollution crisis in Portland (Greenwire, March 2).

After several livestock deaths, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife plans to kill a pack of wolves that are likely responsible for the incidents.

A monthslong investigation released yesterday found that the lead-tainted water in Flint, Mich., may have resulted in rashes and hair loss among residents.

Expect more cases of the Zika virus, the federal government says.

U.S. EPA has known for over 20 years that landfills in Puerto Rico "present an imminent threat" to the health of both humans and the environment, according to a six-month investigation released this week by a citizens' action group.

The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality has issued an emergency order allowing for mattresses, furniture and carpets to be dropped off at construction and demolition landfills.

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