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Kentucky-based Bowie Resource Partners LLC this month proposed building an unprecedented coal-to-liquids plant on the site of its idle Colorado mine.

A Long Island, N.Y., art dealer yesterday pleaded guilty to illegally trafficking black rhinoceros horns, the Justice Department announced.

West Virginia regulators yesterday resolved their lawsuit against Alpha Natural Resources Inc. over the company overlooking $100 million in liabilities during its recent bankruptcy restructuring.

Los Angeles will spend $4 million on projects aimed at preventing polluted stormwater runoff from reaching beaches and the ocean under a settlement with environmental groups announced yesterday.

A new 5-mile-long fence on Hawaii's Big Island has one purpose: to keep out cats.

Oregon is the biggest producer and exporter of Christmas trees in the country, and this year's harvest is estimated to reach 5.4 million trees.

A mining company will revive a long-abandoned gold and silver mine in northwestern Arizona this week.

The Great Plains lost more grassland to farming in 2014 than the Amazon lost to deforestation, according to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund.

Tuna in the Gulf of Maine have shown a steady decrease in the levels of methylmercury in their bodies corresponding to tighter coal regulations in the United States, researchers have found.

Heavy storms swept the South last night, killing five in Alabama and Tennessee. A tornado watch continues in large swaths of the Southeast.

About 8 miles of a river running through Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park is flowing almost freely due to a lock and dam failure.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Interior Department signed a memorandum of understanding with an Alaska Native commission yesterday, opening the door for the group to play a larger role in managing moose and caribou hunting by tribal members.

A fire that began in Great Smoky Mountains National Park a week ago forced the nation's most visited national park to close yesterday, but the inferno has not yet done significant damage to the park's infrastructure.

Negotiators of a deal to share Colorado River water in the parched Southwest are unlikely to reach any agreement by the end of the year, putting the region at risk for harsh water cuts.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has extended the average number of legislative workdays by more than three weeks for the 2017 calendar.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California today easily won her eighth term as the chamber's top Democrat, getting about two-thirds of the vote from the caucus against challenger Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio.

The Center for Coastal Conservation has changed its name to the Center for Sportfishing Policy to "more accurately" reflect its mission.

More than 30 business groups are urging the Office of Management and Budget to send a package of proposed changes to accident prevention and response regulations back to U.S. EPA.

President-elect Donald Trump is plowing ahead with picks for top government jobs as he announced his choices for key financial positions today.

More than 2,300 scientists and multiple Nobel Prize winners called on President-elect Donald Trump and Congress today to ensure that federal agencies receive adequate research funding and are led by officials with a track record of "respecting science."

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