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The Fish and Wildlife Service is moving to add to the threatened species list a Hawaiian forest bird that has already vanished from most of the state's major islands.

Two species of dolphin and two species of guitarfish would gain federal protection under new proposed rules from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Hunting advocates today sought to convince federal judges that they could bring a lawsuit challenging a ban on importing elephant trophies from Tanzania.

Much of the media coverage surrounding the Dakota Access pipeline has focused on opponents to the project. But its supporters were seen as late to the game and are only just starting to get their message out.

Barbara Riley, a longtime congressional Republican aide, is joining the American Forest & Paper Association.

Citgo Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Venezuela's state-run oil company, has brought on another lobbying firm to fight U.S. sanctions against the country's energy sector.

A former public lands lobbyist who has worked for the solar industry and moderate Republicans is joining the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, the group announced today.

The long-running fight over wolf protections in Wyoming will play out this week in federal court in Washington, D.C.

Nine states and the District of Columbia allow tests of self-driving vehicles on their roads if a licensed human driver is in the car and ready to grab the wheel or hit the brakes.

U.S. EPA today released the final version of closely watched guidelines intended to make it easier for states to get a pass on air pollution violations outside their control because of "exceptional events."

Emboldened by the Obama administration freezing construction on part of the Dakota Access pipeline, activists opposing oil and gas projects are now girding for new battles in the Mid-Atlantic region. "I think the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley [pipelines] are cued up to be the next hot spots. They have river crossings, and there are such historic grounds of American history — literally land given by George Washington to families during the wars," Bold Alliance President Jane Kleeb declared in an interview last week. "These are the sleeping dragons."

Michigan lawmakers this week are working to advance two electricity bills through the state Senate.

A petroleum engineer yesterday was tapped to oversee oil and gas operations in Los Angeles, a position that had not been held full time for decades.

Indonesian officials have rejected a recent report that haze from fires across the country last year caused over 100,000 premature deaths.

U.S. EPA's inspector general is launching an investigation into the agency's supervision of state hazardous waste programs.

Hundreds of defunct mines stretch across the Wasatch Mountains in Utah, continually discharging toxic waste with little oversight or cleanup from government programs.

Over 200 million Americans are exposed to the toxic compound hexavalent chromium through their drinking water, according to a report released today by the Environmental Working Group.

Conservation groups are challenging preliminary state approval of a water permit for a controversial copper and silver mine in the forests of northwestern Montana.