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A federal judge yesterday ordered Michigan state officials to offer bottled water delivery services to Flint residents who are unable to travel to distribution sites in the city.

Just hours before the 2014 standoff with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's supporters, Bureau of Land Management agents shredded documents related to their roundup of the family's cattle near Bunkerville, Nev.

The Sierra Club is suing to force U.S. EPA to make a decision on permit challenges involving two Duke Energy Corp. plants in North Carolina.

A federal judge ruled yesterday that a lawsuit brought by climate scientist James Hansen and a group of youth plaintiffs over the government's failure to protect them from global warming can proceed.

A Tennessee firefighter received a rattlesnake bite after chopping off the reptile's head.

As the local representative for the largest energy utility in Arizona, Kevin Hartigan is in charge of keeping the power on at Grand Canyon National Park.

Officials say arson may be the cause of the more than 20 wildfires burning in the Nantahala National Forest in western North Carolina. More than 25 square miles is burning, according to the Forest Service.

A court in Zimbabwe has nullified charges against a professional hunter charged with allowing American dentist Walter Palmer to kill Cecil the lion.

President-elect Donald Trump's campaign promise to change the name of Denali back to Mount McKinley has garnered no formal action yet as he begins his transition into the White House.

Californians embraced legalizing marijuana this week, voting 56 percent in favor of allowing adults to grow, buy and smoke it. Now the state must determine how to do that while protecting the environment residents cherish.

The Fish and Wildlife Service has completed a detailed analysis that clears the way to allow energy companies and others to obtain 30-year permits to kill, harm or disturb protected bald and golden eagles, a move federal regulators say will better protect eagles by encouraging developers to commit to conservation measures.

Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa yesterday formally announced his candidacy for California governor, pledging to put up strong opposition to President-elect Donald Trump.

Supporters of the federal fuel-efficiency program are hoping it might survive President-elect Donald Trump's promised rollback of environmental regulations.

Chesapeake Bay advocates fear President-elect Donald Trump might toss the "pollution diet" crafted to clean up the nation's largest estuary.

The contentious world of California water policy is bound for changes under a Trump administration, observers say.

NEW YORK CITY — Bill McKibben, environmentalist, organizer and chief cheerleader of the "keep it in the ground" movement, had meager hope this week for a university auditorium full of dazed liberal activists who had come to hear a climate change pep talk.

A top priority for President-elect Donald Trump is a highly contentious regulatory reform plan that is receiving mixed support from veteran regulators.

Former Vice President Al Gore extended an olive branch to President-elect Donald Trump this week on climate change.

Once President-elect Donald Trump takes office, he could send an early signal to the oil and gas industry that he cares about their priorities by targeting White House guidance related to climate change.

President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is considering industry consultant Ed Davis to lead the government's top nuclear office and Fluor Corp. executive Paul Longsworth to oversee the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile, a source advising the transition effort said.

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