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It's a safe bet that House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop will skate to an eighth term on Capitol Hill next month.

Climate activists at 350 Action won't be endorsing Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton — but the group still wants its membership to vote for her in the race for the White House.

PORTLAND, Maine — Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin sought to tie his Democratic opponent, Emily Cain, to a carbon tax in a heated debate here yesterday during which both candidates also sought to link the other to his or her party's polarizing leaders or outside interests.

Barrow High School boasts Alaska's northernmost football team, students whose families hunt bowhead whales — and, as of yesterday, the country's first-ever Senate debate in the Arctic.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) took aim at Rep. Patrick Murphy's environmental record last night, aiming to discredit his Democratic challenger's résumé on Everglades restoration and other issues as the duo faced off in their second debate.

Residents of Montana are largely against a transfer of federal lands to the state, according to a recent poll.

Protestors of the Dakota Access oil pipeline are expecting a confrontation with police today after they refused to move from private land in the pipeline's path.

The Obama administration's $28 million grant to study maglev train technology between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore came just months after former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) solicited John Podesta's help on the project.

Top staffers for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton wanted to avoid getting involved in a decades-old push to create 24 million acres of national monument across five Western states, according to hacked emails.

A government watchdog group is seeking personal emails from the head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality after recently hacked emails indicate she may have used her personal account to conduct government business.

Hillary Clinton was reluctant to take a firm stance last year on the contentious Keystone XL pipeline, but some of her top aides suggested sending a "wink-wink to enviros" on the issue, hacked emails reveal.

The judge in the trial for occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge yesterday dismissed a juror for alleged bias.

The Interior Department is moving toward finalizing rules, policies and projects that it says should ensure renewable energy's unprecedented growth spurt continues on federal land after President Obama leaves office.

A group of Chinese oil and gas personnel are exploring in the remote Bolivian Amazon and have reported encounters with a group of indigenous people living in isolation.

The U.N. Environment Programme has pointed to the battle by Iraqi forces to reclaim Mosul from the Islamic State group as the latest example of military conflict leading to environmental degradation.

In an effort to prevent fish stocks from collapsing, the European Union may shut down commercial fishing for whiting in waters west of Scotland and sea bass in the Atlantic Ocean next year.

Air pollution impairs blood vessels even in healthy young people, according to a study from the University of Louisville in Kentucky.

The International Maritime Organization yesterday resolved to curb sulfur emissions from shipping vessels in a decision praised by environmental campaigners who say lower maritime pollution will save lives.

To the litany of harmful effects associated with exposure to fine particles, a new study by Canadian and U.S. researchers suggests that there's yet one more to add: They may help drive down stock prices.

Electric vehicle manufacturers are just beginning to incorporate wireless charging in their models, but charging companies are already eyeing a new market: autonomous vehicles.

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