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The costs of five key clean energy technologies plunged by as much as 94 percent since President Obama took office, according to a report today from the Department of Energy.

In the first five months of 2016, Colonial Pipeline Co. has been responsible for four separate spills of gasoline, fuel oil, diesel, kerosene or jet fuel in the Alabama environment.

The New Mexico Supreme Court will hear new evidence on the relationship between climate change and coal power generation as the Public Service Company of New Mexico's energy plan faces review by the Land of Enchantment's highest court.

Belén is a floating shantytown and market in Peru where animals — dead and alive — and their parts are traded for just a few dollars.

Rangers like Yod Wangduangkam in Thailand risk their lives to protect endangered species in wildlife sanctuaries.

Delegates at a U.N. wildlife convention have voted to ban the trade of all eight species of Asian and African pangolins.

As more humans go to Norway's remote Arctic islands — be it for research, hunting or tourism — more polar bears are being fatally shot.

Several conservation groups are suing the government in an attempt to force a re-evaluation of whether the Yellowstone bison should be listed as a threatened or endangered species.

The National Park Service next year plans to cease permit sales to commercial guides for Arches National Park's Fiery Furnace, which only 125 people are allowed to hike per day.

The Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it's extending Endangered Species Act protections to four South Florida plant species threatened by development and climate change — a move that could affect two major building projects.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) touts her work to preserve access to public lands in the Last Frontier in her latest campaign ad, a spot that stars John Sturgeon, the moose hunter at the center of a legal battle to use his hovercraft within an Alaska national preserve.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said this morning that he was satisfied with assurances by Republican leaders that aid for Flint, Mich., would be forthcoming in the lame-duck session, setting the stage for a vote on the spending continuing resolution as early as today.

A U.S. EPA region had dozens of missing enforcement files for years, the agency's inspector general found.

For more than four decades, U.S. EPA's primary nitrogen dioxide standard has been set at an annual average of 53 parts per billion.

OKANOGAN-WENATCHEE NATIONAL FOREST, Wash. — Central Washington's long water war may soon be over.

Georgetown Law rounded up a who's who of the nation's energy and environmental attorneys and experts this morning to discuss yesterday's oral arguments over President Obama's signature climate rule. "It was like going to the NBA all-star game," Georgetown Law professor William Buzbee said of the almost seven hours of arguments at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. "Really, you had just the best lawyers, probably in the country, and incredibly well-prepared judges."

Thailand is halting its seahorse exports due to depopulation concerns, the country announced today at an international endangered species gathering.

At least 18 miners died earlier this week from an explosion caused by illegal extraction techniques at a coal mine in China.

More than half of the homes in the beleaguered city of Flint, Mich., could be affected by lead piping, according to a University of Michigan study.

A 2011 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report misled the public and left children in East Chicago, Ind., vulnerable to lead poisoning, a Reuters investigation found.

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