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The oceanic whitetip shark — a species popular in shark fin soup — would gain federal protection under a proposal from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Florida panther motor-related death rates for 2016 were at an all-time high, with over 80 percent of overall deaths, amounting to 32 panthers, resulting from collisions with motor vehicles, according to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) data.

Tribal communities have long watched as the remains of their ancestors and objects of cultural patrimony have been taken from cultural sites and sold at international auctions or displayed in museums thousands of miles from their homelands.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) has selected a former U.S. EPA official to lead his state's Department of Environmental Quality.

Business Roundtable today named Joshua Bolten, the former White House chief of staff for President George W. Bush, as its new president and CEO.

A senior Interior Department official is moving to the National Audubon Society as director of water and coastal policy, the environmental group said today.

Charles Brittingham, once an aide to former Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), is going to K Street.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has promoted longtime Capitol Hill aide Barrett Carr to be chief of staff, a post where she will help to marshal GOP efforts to move their legislative agenda through the House.

Congress returned yesterday, and Rep. David McKinley immediately proposed shoring up retired union coal miner benefits, an issue that took Congress to the brink of a government shutdown at the end of the previous session.

President Obama's Department of Energy appointees are scrambling for new jobs.

President-elect Donald Trump has selected attorney Jay Clayton to be the next chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the financial regulatory agency.

Gwen White, senior scientist at the Fish and Wildlife Service, recently made the case for spending BP PLC's oil spill settlement funds hundreds of miles inland, far from the Gulf of Mexico.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a lower court decision that pollution at a West Virginia coal mine violated the Clean Water Act.

House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) yesterday introduced a sweeping and comprehensive reform bill that he says would reduce regulatory burdens.

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — Before he was Donald Trump's pick to lead U.S. EPA, Scott Pruitt was a kid from Kentucky who grooved to country music, drove a '78 Chevy Blazer and hoped to make it as a big-league baseball player. His college teammates called him "The Possum."

Zimbabwe has sold 35 elephants to China to ease overpopulation and raise funds for conservation, its government announced today.

China will invest 2.5 trillion yuan ($361 billion) in renewable power generation by 2020, the National Energy Administration said today.

A Chinese businessman has set his sights on smartphone disposal in a bid to tackle highly toxic electronic waste that is currently funneled into landfills across the globe.

A medical facility in Wisconsin failed to inform workers after exposing them to asbestos, federal regulators said this week.

Regulators should apply emerging scientific techniques to assessments of chemical risk, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine say in a report released today.

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