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A federal court sentenced a former CEO of an Indiana biodiesel company Friday to 10 years in prison for his role in a massive fraud scheme that bilked investors and generated $56 million in criminal profit.

Indigenous people who live on the world's coasts consume far more seafood per capita than people in other parts of the world, according to a new study by the Nippon Foundation-Nereus Program at the University of British Columbia.

Following 11 years of disease, Florida's citrus industry could be close to a comeback, researchers say.

Permitting trophy hunting could help save lions, according to an Oxford University scientist who studied Cecil the lion for years before the famous animal was killed in 2015 by an American dentist.

Ten Pacific fishers have been released into Mount Rainier National Park — a region where the small, weasellike mammal had been hunted out of existence.

Deep ocean habitat off the coast of Southern California may see more protections under a plan proposed by Oceana.

The National Park Service has conclusively determined that the devastating Tennessee wildfire was started by someone on the popular Chimney Tops Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

For the second time in less five years, private equity billionaire David Rubenstein has pledged millions of dollars to fix the Washington Monument.

Tomorrow, fifth-grader Isabella Gerard will hit the switch to light up this holiday season's Capitol Christmas tree, an 80-foot Engelmann spruce that cost $600,000 to truck across the country from Idaho's Payette National Forest.

Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) today spearheaded a letter with 22 of his colleagues urging President Obama to stop all non-emergency rules and regulations in the final weeks of his term.

Lawmakers asked President Obama late last week to issue a governmentwide hiring freeze for most federal employees to ensure a smooth transition from one administration to the next. The move would set a new precedent for presidential transitions.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy expects a water projects bill to pass the House this week containing modest provisions to address the ongoing California drought.

The United States is on track to meet greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals set by President Obama thanks to businesses and states, said climate activist and former Vice President Al Gore.

President-elect Donald Trump wants the $3.78 billion Dakota Access pipeline built and is planning on reviewing the project's status after he's inaugurated, Trump spokesman Jason Miller said today.

Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump want to free up the vast oil and gas reserves found on tribal reservations from what they call a suffocating federal bureaucracy.

U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said today there has been sparse interaction between her agency and President-elect Donald Trump's transition team.

Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer, a possible choice for Energy secretary under a Trump administration, is heading to New York today to meet with the president-elect.

U.S. EPA wants to rethink its decision to impose new pollution control requirements on Texas power plants, according to agency attorneys seeking an appellate court's permission to remand the regional haze rule, currently at the center of a legal dispute the agency is poised to lose.

U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy cautioned today against reading too much into high-profile decisions by the Obama administration on the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines.

Ivanka Trump and former Vice President Al Gore are discussing climate change in Trump Tower today.

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