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When asked what stands in the way of fixing the blue-green algal blooms sweeping across Florida's Treasure Coast, aquatic ecologist John Cassani does not hesitate to answer: political dysfunction.

A three-judge panel tomorrow will hear a challenge by the timber industry to the Fish and Wildlife Service's critical habitat designation for the northern spotted owl.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's transition team has tapped a top energy lobbyist with deep ties to Capitol Hill Republicans to help lead its energy and environment transition operations.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge offered a variety of defenses in court yesterday, ranging from their religious beliefs to civil disobedience to "despotism" and the impending death of "rural America" due to federal lands policies.

Peru's new environmental minister, a former economist trained in the United States, yesterday announced that the government will collaborate with corporations to reduce pollution instead of levying fines against polluters.

Over 6,000 employees currently work at the world's largest nuclear energy plant, in Japan, but that same facility has not sold any electricity in over four years.

Conservation groups have warned that a national park made up of wetlands in Spain is at risk of disappearing due to excessive dryness.

A Russian company that mines and smelts nickel says its recent spill into the Daldykan River did not harm humans or wildlife.

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources has a new deputy commissioner: longtime oil field engineer Mark Wiggin.

California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) yesterday signed four bills that will increase climate change spending in the state's low-income communities.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) and the Republican-controlled state Legislature retroactively protected paint makers from liability after the billionaire owner of a lead producer made a six-figure contribution to a conservative political group.

A conservative legal group wants U.S. EPA to set rules to guide investigations into job losses possibly stemming from the Clean Air Act.

Ford Motor Co. will invest $4.5 billion into electrifying vehicles as part of its promise to become more than just a motor company.

The British government has approved the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant, the country's first such consent in decades.

A former health official in Michigan admitted yesterday she knew about dozens of Legionnaires' disease cases in Flint, Mich., after the city switched its water supply, yet withheld this information from the public.

Romania's wetlands once drained by dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu in the 1980s are coming back to life thanks to help from local communities, the World Wildlife Fund and funding from the European Union.

Outdoor advocates are outraged at a proposal from the Air Force to expand its test range over 300,000 acres in Nevada and restrict access to popular parts of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.

Large ocean creatures and big fish face higher risks of extinction than smaller ones, overturning a 500-million-year pattern, according to a new study.

The United Kingdom plans to ban commercial fishing in roughly 385,000 square miles of ocean around British territories.

Proposed water tunnels supported by California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) would only be possible if the federal government paid a third of the $16 billion price tag.

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