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Federal judges have changed the briefing schedule for the Obama administration's hot-button Clean Water Rule for the second time this month, pushing the timeline nearly six weeks later than what was originally scheduled.

Marge Sill, who came to be known as the mother and later grandmother of Nevada wilderness, has died at 92.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced it will train African giant pouched rats to detect illegal shipments of the endangered pangolin in Tanzania.

Japan led a group of countries yesterday to block a proposal to create a South Atlantic sanctuary for whales.

Commercial fishermen landed more fish — but made less money — in 2015 than the previous year, according to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The United States will soon ban aquariums from importing Russian beluga whales, designating the population as depleted under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

A national bird conservation group is threatening to sue the Ohio Air National Guard if it does not abandon plans to build a wind turbine along the shores of Lake Erie in one of the largest bird migration corridors in North America.

A coalition of conservative groups is pressuring House and Senate leaders to skip the end-of-year renewable tax extender ritual in the upcoming lame-duck session.

Republican presidential candidate and property developer Donald Trump has received more than $100,000 in campaign donations from Energy Transfer Partners' CEO, whose company operates the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline.

Energy advisers for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump offered an in-depth look last night into the presidential candidates' views of substantial energy and climate policies in a campaign that has tilted toward mud-slinging and insults.

The League of Conservation Voters will spend $230,000 on its efforts to defeat Maine Rep. Bruce Poliquin, with a new television campaign that characterizes the Republican lawmaker as a proponent of the fossil fuel industry.

BURLINGTON, Vt. — Candidates running for the open Vermont governor's seat, being vacated by Democrat Peter Shumlin, sparred in a debate here yesterday over whose environmental policies would best position a state with a dwindling population for economic growth.

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) and her challenger, Gov. Maggie Hassan (D), sought to emphasize how their contrasting views on the environment could bolster the Granite State's economy in a debate here yesterday.

After a perceived snub by former Vice President Al Gore last year, a Hillary Clinton campaign aide suggested enlisting the help of Gore's estranged wife, Tipper.

A Seattle federal judge has given environmentalists a chance to prove their theory that every single coal train car passing through Washington state pollutes waterways in violation of federal law.

A Donald Trump adviser thinks the energy divide between the GOP presidential nominee and Hillary Clinton is clear-cut.

In the wake of historic floods that inundated Baton Rouge, La., this summer, freshman Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.) made his entire staff — in both his Washington, D.C., and district offices — travel to disaster-stricken areas to help gut houses and speak with devastated Louisianans.

Emails hacked from John Podesta's account reveal how major Democratic donors are plugged in at the highest political levels.

Wildlife activists say a female polar bear, currently an attraction at a mall in Guangzhou, China, is showing signs of frustration and mental decline.

The European Union has abandoned plans to restrict the use of a potentially carcinogenic compound found in food after industry pushback, according to documents leaked to The Guardian.

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