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Mexican gray wolves saw a higher death count in 2016 than any year since the federal government starting reintroducing the endangered species in New Mexico and Arizona in 1998.

Vast deposits of copper and nickel lurk beneath the pristine forests of northern Minnesota, where a mining company has long dreamed of building a 700-foot pit mine to environmentalists' horror.

Former Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello has thrown his hat in the ring for Virginia's governor's race, complicating the party's plans for what promises to be one of the most intense elections this year.

Some rural voters who supported President-elect Donald Trump worry about the new administration's delay in naming a new head of the Department of Agriculture.

Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. secretary of State, filed a federal ethics report revealing $400 million in investments around the world.

Outgoing Interior Secretary Sally Jewell plans to take a long road trip once her duties are wrapped up in the department, including a monthslong camping expedition to the nation's southern public lands.

Activists trying to preserve climate and environmental data ahead of the Trump administration are stepping up their fundraising.

The House's top watchdog is pressing the Interior Department for more information on a sex offender hired to work in the Bureau of Land Management's Denver Federal Center.

Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) introduced a bill yesterday to repeal federal energy efficiency standards.

House Speaker Paul Ryan today called regulatory reform one of the "highest priorities" for the incoming Trump administration and Congress, saying overhauling federal rulemaking would help to create jobs and boost the economy.

The Obama administration wants to remove a bat and two plants from the endangered species list, adding to the record-setting 20 species it has already delisted over the past eight years.

A former senior U.S. EPA official and rumored contender to become a top regulatory official in the Trump administration was on Capitol Hill this morning.

It's closing time for the Obama administration. In a series of exit memorandums released today, agency chiefs lauded their accomplishments during the past eight years, with energy and environmental agencies touting their efforts to boost renewable energy, fight pollution and address climate change.

President-elect Donald Trump once rejected the idea of selling public lands to states because he wanted "to keep the lands great." It's a statement environmentalists and sportsmen have held up as the silver lining to an uncertain future. But on Tuesday, that hope gave way to fear, when the Republican-controlled House passed a rule that will allow the chamber to consider federal land transfers cost-free and budget-neutral.

The city of London has surpassed its yearly air pollution quota only five days into the new year.

Utah environmental regulators in 2016 responded to a historically large algae bloom breakout and oversaw a pioneering study on inversion-causing pollution.

The newest state park in Missouri will be named after outgoing Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon.

An Oregon judge yesterday permitted the city of Portland to funnel tens of millions of dollars in sewer revenue to cleaning up the Portland Harbor Superfund site.

An environmental group filed a Freedom of Information Act request with U.S. EPA yesterday for documents pertaining to a controversial pesticide decision.

The battle against the Zika virus has been a costly struggle for health workers, who say the arsenal of insecticides capable of killing virus-carrying mosquitoes is thinning.

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