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A Washington state man is once again suing U.S. EPA to compel the agency to make a decision affecting an operating permit for the Department of Energy's Hanford nuclear waste site.

The Obama administration has asked the Supreme Court to pass on taking up a long-standing dispute over grazing rights on public lands in Nevada.

The drought-related deaths of millions of trees in California are adding to a backlog of forest restoration work now spread over 60 million acres, Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell said yesterday.

The National Wildlife Refuge System is woefully understaffed, according to an analysis released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. has agreed to a $12 million settlement to resolve natural resources damages stemming from its 2011 oil spill in the Yellowstone River.

The Senate Finance Committee approved legislation this morning that would rescue the pension and health plans for more than 120,000 retired union coal miners.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton refers to "climate change" in speeches less than half the number of times she did before primary rival Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont endorsed her, according to an analysis by Climate Home.

California billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer announced that he will pump another $15 million into a joint effort with major labor unions to boost voter turnout in support of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

Hundreds of members of the National Academy of Sciences, including 30 Nobel Prize winners, yesterday urged Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and other GOP politicians not to advocate withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.

Republicans unleashed a new round of attack ads in the Keystone State today, criticizing Democratic Senate nominee Katie McGinty for her onetime post with Pittsburgh-based technology firm Plextronics, which had received state funds during her tenure at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

In a new song called "Indian Givers," musician Neil Young joins the protest against the Dakota Access pipeline.

The Obama administration built a framework this week for addressing the development of autonomous vehicles.

A board member of the nation's chemical safety watchdog may have engaged in improper correspondence with officials at the largest industrial labor union in the country, according to private emails provided to Greenwire.

PITTSBURGH — An oil executive blasted the Obama administration at an industry conference here today for intervening in the $3.7 billion Dakota Access pipeline and faulted federal regulators for making "common cause" with environmentalists intent on villainizing the oil and gas industry.

Joe Browder, a legendary environmentalist known for winning major battles to protect the Florida Everglades, died Sunday. He was 78.

The trial of leaders of the armed standoff at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge represents a make-or-break moment in the government's efforts to quash a radical anti-public-lands movement in the West.

Sweden is considering a plan to cut its value-added tax on repairs to various items in an effort to promote sustainability.

The head of Ohio's environmental agency has slammed a nonprofit for using what he called scare tactics in unveiling the prevalence of hexavalent chromium in drinking water.