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Maryland will not join a cohort of Northeastern states suing U.S. EPA over the timing of a federal ozone decision, state officials announced last week.

Poultry and pork producers in North Carolina could face substantial losses after Hurricane Matthew flooded several facilities.

The Department of Energy's only Alaska employee is betting that small-scale hydropower will reduce energy costs for rural residents in the remote state.

An American coal company bucked tough global market trends this month by sending new shipments to South Korea, but the point of departure was Canada, not the United States.

Coastal cities are increasingly getting hit with nuisance flooding 10 or 20 times a year, and most of that flooding is caused by humans, according to a new analysis.

Oregon standoff defendant Ryan Bundy's effort to subpoena the nonprofit Friends of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge has failed.

Federal appellate judges today weighed a request by a group of Sacramento River watershed groundwater users to access data about agricultural water wells in California.

The Supreme Court today declined to take up a long-running dispute over grazing rights on public lands in Nevada.

Researchers and scientists are scrambling to assure Outside readers that the 1,400-mile-long Great Barrier Reef isn't dead despite an obituary published on the magazine's website last week by Rowan Jacobsen that called the reef "one of the most spectacular features on the planet."

Residents on one of the Pribilof Islands in Alaska want the federal government to issue the state's first national marine sanctuary around them to protect their island's fur seals.

A crew of volunteers has been busy combing the desert to collect waste outside Reno, Nev., following the weeklong Burning Man festival.

After five years of failed negotiations, an international agreement to protect Antarctica's marine ecosystems could come in the next two weeks.

The Bureau of Land Management pays $49 million each year to rent lands for 46,000 wild horses to graze.

The popularity of Zion National Park is prompting a discussion about whether the number of visitors should be limited.

The Obama administration wants to build a new dam on the Yellowstone River, but environmental groups say the dam's fish bypass will do little to help endangered pallid sturgeon travel upstream to breeding grounds.

A recent study of golden eagle mortality at a Northern California wind energy field found that over a quarter of the turbine-killed raptors had recently flown to the area, a conclusion that its authors suggest shows the need for broader environmental assessments of such facilities.

Duke Energy Corp. has added another prominent K Street name to its squad of lobbyists.

President Obama should not designate the Bears Ears National Monument in southeast Utah without first directing his administration to undertake a series of procedural actions that could take years to complete, according to a detailed report commissioned by the leaders of the county where the monument would be located.

The Department of Energy is pushing back against critics who say its loan program office spawned useless renewable spending and led to bankruptcy flops like Solyndra.

The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs tomorrow will hear from witnesses on the theft of tribal cultural items in a field hearing led by Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.).

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