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The head of the World Resources Institute last night applauded Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for her cautious, careful rollout of a climate agenda.

Firing off an energy policy tweet is no simple affair for Hillary Clinton.

Before she was dubbed the "Keystone Killer" by Rolling Stone, environmentalist Jane Kleeb was called Midget, Janie or sometimes even Jane the Pain by her family.

Pamela Campos, a well-known Environmental Defense Fund attorney, has filed a lawsuit alleging discrimination by her employer after she disclosed ongoing health problems.

Lawsuits over the Obama administration's Clean Air Act standard for ozone are still playing out, legislative battles are still sputtering along in Congress and key regulations are still under wraps.

Leaders of the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge last winter were found not guilty yesterday of conspiring to impede federal officials in a shocking loss for the government. "I don't know how this verdict can't serve to embolden people that they can be free to take actions that involve threats of violence and instructions on public lands and escape with impunity," said Bob Dreher, a former acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's environmental division. "It's a little scary."

Tanzanian President John Magufuli mandated over the weekend that security forces pursue elephant poachers as part of a broader crackdown on corruption.

Tajikistan is trying to secure its energy independence by building the world's tallest dam for generating hydropower in its largest city, Dushanbe.

An earthquake shook Italy yesterday in the same region hit by repeated tremors for the last two months.

A recent policy shift by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has caused an environmental group and lake association to file suit against the state agency.

Dirty air helps kill hundreds of thousands of preschool children each year and the toll is only likely to grow, the United Nations Children's Fund said in a new report.

Engineers at Toyota Motor Corp. say they have figured out a way to use lithium-ion battery technology without the volatile side effects or increased costs.

The continued growth of electric vehicles in California represents a "double-edged sword" for the power industry there, Moody's Investors Service said in a report released today.

With 43 percent of the U.S. workforce expected to retire in the next decade, the Department of Energy is taking steps to find fresh hires.

Delaware's environment agency demanded this week that Bloom Energy regulate its waste canisters as hazardous material, reversing course after first exempting the company from federal hazardous waste guidelines.

Authorities have opened up an investigation into a fire that burned about 400 acres near where Dakota Access oil pipeline protestors are taking up camp.

The White House rolled out climate adaptation actions today together with a report describing how federal agencies and stakeholders can work together to prepare for global warming.

Montana and Interior Department officials are pursuing damages for a 2015 spill that contaminated the Yellowstone River with over 30,000 gallons of oil.

The Supreme Court on Friday declined to consider whether to scrap a nearly 20-year-old legal doctrine under which courts give deference to agency interpretations of rules.

During a recent dive off the shore of Elk, Calif., researchers looked at a barren ocean landscape usually covered in leafy bull kelp, abalones and urchins.

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