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President Obama and actor Leonardo DiCaprio will discuss ways to combat climate change at a White House event next week.

A coalition of clergy, union, medical and retired military representatives who support U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan today released more than 376,000 petitions urging challengers to drop their lawsuit against the rule.

The operators of a St. Louis landfill with an underground fire approaching a nearby radioactive dump reached a settlement with 34 area homeowners Friday.

The Sierra Club has taken a legal fight over a Utah power plant's operating permit into federal court.

The Obama administration has settled with 17 tribes to resolve claims over the mismanagement of trust funds and natural resources.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration must create a new plan for managing Alaskan salmon after a federal appeals court overturned the agency's decision to exclude historic net-fishing areas in Cook Inlet.

Over a decade of undercover surveillance has revealed suspected ringleaders behind the lucrative illegal animal trade across several countries like South Africa, Thailand and China, according to an investigation by the London Guardian.

A new study says that African elephant populations are down by about 111,000 over the past decade.

Montana officials on Friday reopened part of the Yellowstone River a month after the entire waterway was closed due to a parasite that killed thousands of fish.

The Pacific Institute, a leading nonpartisan water-focused think tank, announced a new president today.

Farmers in the United States may be getting older, but in part of the country, that trend has a strange twist: They're getting younger, too.

The campaign arm for Republican attorneys general across the country is outspending its Democratic counterpart by $10 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The White House announced $80 million in new funding today to slash carbon emissions, reduce building energy use, boost autonomous vehicles and improve living conditions in urban areas.

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity is blitzing computer screens and airwaves ahead of tomorrow's appeals court oral arguments on U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan.

House Transportation and Infrastructure ranking member Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) is seeking to block funding for an $810 million project in Texas tucked into the House Water Resources Development Act as retribution for Republicans' removing a provision to unlock money in the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund.

The Obama administration today finalized requirements that set a higher bar for petitions to protect species or their habitats under the Endangered Species Act.

A dispute over methods that federal officials used to determine that a South Dakota farm contained wetlands has ballooned into a broader legal battle over how agencies interpret regulations.

Environmental advocates recoiled today at the news that leading climate change skeptic Myron Ebell is leading Donald Trump's transition team for U.S. EPA.

A longtime business associate of Donald Trump has two words for what the 2016 Republican presidential nominee wants in a U.S. EPA administrator. "Practical environmentalism," Ed Russo said in an interview with Greenwire. "Not radical environmentalism."

A carbon credit program in southern Kenya is leading locals to plant mangrove trees and safeguard existing groves.

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