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Many of the programs implemented by the President's Task Force on Combating Wildlife Trafficking do not have clear goals, a watchdog agency found after a 13-month review of the Obama administration's anti-trafficking efforts.

President Obama will meet with leaders from hundreds of Native American tribes next week at the eighth Tribal Nations Conference at the White House.

Resources for the Future announced a new research award today to honor Molly Macauley, an executive at the environmental think tank who was killed in July.

The League of Conservation Voters Victory Fund announced today it will spend $1 million to target House candidates on its "Dirty Dozen" list, starting with Republicans in Minnesota and Nevada.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale University professor, author and former Obama environment adviser Daniel Esty opened the final morning of his first-ever Yale Sustainability Leadership Forum waving the most recent edition of the New Haven Register.

Mike Leavitt has been Utah's governor, U.S. EPA's boss and the head of the Department of Health and Human Services.

A California-based startup unveiled a product this week that aims to disrupt solar power production much as the iPhone changed communications.

U.S. EPA, under pressure to more aggressively confront port-related diesel pollution, is urging expansion of voluntary measures that the agency says have already proved effective.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump expanded his list of possible Supreme Court nominees today with 10 more names, including vocal critics of a legal doctrine beloved by environmentalists.

The American Medical Association warned in June that certain powerful light-emitting diode (LED) streetlights may cause health issues, prompting some cities to re-examine their use of the lights.

Officials in East Chicago, Ind., are moving a polling station due to lead contamination in a housing complex.

Dorothy Rudolph of Alabama owns one of the roughly one in five U.S. homes that are not on city sewer lines. But the cost of installing a septic system — $6,000 — is too steep for her family, which brings in only about $12,000 a year.

A multiproduct pesticide regimen may work to effectively kill off Zika-virus-carrying mosquitoes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last week.

U.S. EPA has approved $12 million to kick-start water lines for affected homes near a New York Superfund site.

Colorado communities are growing concerned over the shrinking glaciers that they rely on as drinking water sources in Rocky Mountain National Park as temperatures rise.

Water officials in a Colorado town are under investigation for inadvertently killing almost 1,000 fish in its reservoir this summer.

Duke Energy Corp. will pay $6 million for the country's third-worst spill that covered North Carolina's Dan River with liquefied coal ash in 2014.

Chris Grundler's job often pits him head to head against the automobile industry.

The National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum on Saturday inducted a quartet of honorees, including former Royal Gold Inc. Executive Chairman Stanley Dempsey.

The future operator of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, Sunoco Logistics Partners LP, spills crude more frequently than any of its competitors, an analysis by Reuters has found.

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