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Grizzly bears are a step closer to being removed from the federal endangered species list.

Sea turtles, rare birds and coral species across the Caribbean may get a boost from a mini-documentary to be screened on JetBlue Airways Corp. flights beginning this week.

An environmental group will pause its lawsuit challenging the Forest Service's management of roads and motorized trails in Utah's Sawtooth National Forest, while the agency takes another look at potential perils to a threatened trout.

Yellowstone National Park announced today that a 26-year National Park Service veteran will take over day-to-day operations of the 2.2-million-acre park.

The head of Energy Transfer Partners LP told "PBS NewsHour" yesterday that it will complete the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline project despite ongoing protests at the construction site.

The U.S. Green Building Council has tapped Mahesh Ramanujam to be its new president and CEO.

Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has joined a newly formed advisory board at Olympusat, the Florida-based media company announced today.

Suzanne Clark is slated to become the top lobbyist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Chamber President and CEO Thomas Donohue announced this week.

A well-known author and conservationist is appealing the Bureau of Land Management's decision last month to reject her purchase of two oil and natural gas leases in Utah on the grounds that she had no intention of developing them.

The House passed legislation this morning to give Congress more authority to block regulations issued in the waning days of President Obama's administration.

The Senate today turned back an effort by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) to expand the sharing of federal energy revenues both on- and offshore, after Democrats rebuffed provisions that were added to attract their support.

Congressional Republicans will punt final decisions on fiscal 2017 spending until next spring to buy themselves time to work with the new Trump administration on resetting priorities.

President-elect Donald Trump's transition teams for federal agencies are ready to roll.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito criticized today an Obama administration climate rule and his colleagues who thought it was legal.

Janet Sena, a former electric utility executive and player in the energy sector, is being considered to chair the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, according to a source on President-elect Donald Trump's transition team.

A week after President-elect Donald Trump clinched a White House victory, his looming presidency is still causing shudders among Energy Department staffers unsure of what the future holds.

The Trump transition team's announced intention to ban members of the administration from lobbying for five years after leaving the government sent shock waves through K Street. One Republican lobbyist decried the "short-sighted" ban. "Once you leave, you can't lobby for five years?" the lobbyist said. "Are you kidding me?"

The Slovenian government has made clean drinking water a constitutional right.

Water quality is worsening in China even as the country attempts to curb its heavy air pollution.

A timber company and a Native American tribe have partnered to buy Elliott State Forest in Oregon in a move environmentalists have decried as mass privatization of public land.

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