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The state of Alaska won a $500 million tax dispute against several major oil companies Friday.

Opponents of U.S. EPA's carbon rule for new power plants are asking a federal court to tap the brakes on their legal challenge while they wait to see what the incoming Trump administration does with the regulation.

A federal effort to save the Key deer, a 3-foot-tall species specific to the Florida Keys, has been largely successful.

Officials' handling of the wildfire that inundated Gatlinburg, Tenn., last month has come into question as details emerge on hazard alerts and firefighter deployment.

The Dudleya hendrixii is a rare succulent bloom that stands at 1 foot high and dies each summer before regrowing in the fall. Its name means "Hendrix's live-forever," in honor of rock musician Jimi Hendrix.

Harold Gilliam, a pioneering environmental journalist, columnist and author of 11 books on the Bay Area, died Wednesday after a long illness. He was 98.

Officials serving on the federal Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee grappled with complex management issues during a meeting in Missoula, Mont., last week.

Officials are looking at relocating up to 30 gray wolves to Isle Royale National Park in Michigan, according to a report released Friday.

A federal district court judge has rejected a suit from environmentalists hoping to force U.S. EPA to regulate nutrient pollution in the Mississippi River.

Federal and state regulators were too slow to respond to the Flint, Mich., drinking water crisis, House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz said Friday as he brought his committee's investigation to a close.

Incoming Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman John Barrasso announced today that a former White House aide from the George W. Bush administration will serve as staff director on the committee next year, while a longtime staffer to the Wyoming Republican will occupy the panel's deputy slot.

President Obama signed the water projects bill that will help Flint, Mich., and other communities replace lead pipes in public water systems.

U.S. EPA today made public its work to date on guidance for states to use carbon trading to meet greenhouse gas standards for the power sector — but the agency stopped short of issuing final rules.

Before Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) was President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Interior secretary, he was part of plan to flip the Montana Senate seat now held by Democratic Sen. Jon Tester.

Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Rex Tillerson was the director of a U.S.-Russian oil firm based in the Bahamas, according to a leaked document from a corporate registry.

Environmental education is not getting the resources it deserves, advocates say, and they're gearing up for even more of a fight under a Donald Trump administration.

More than 150 people showed up at a "guerrilla archiving" event at the University of Toronto this weekend aimed at "saving environmental data from [President-elect Donald] Trump."

President-elect Donald Trump nominated U.S. Army veteran and billionaire businessman Vincent "Vinnie" Viola as secretary of the Army, a role with direct oversight of the $3.78 billion Dakota Access pipeline.

Immigration-reform advocates have opened a front in their campaign with a lawsuit alleging that the federal government has turned a "blind eye" to the environmental impacts of both legal and undocumented immigrants.

Rep. Mick Mulvaney, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for director of the Office of Management and Budget, would bring a zeal for slashing the federal workforce and regulations to the executive branch.

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