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In a dramatic shift from previous attitudes on endangered wildlife, Air China has become the first airline across the mainland to ban shark fin cargo.

This weekend saw SeaWorld's last killer whale performance in San Diego after criticism of the treatment of captive marine mammals prompted a promise to phase out the show.

A historic giant sequoia in Calaveras County, Calif., was felled during stormy weather this weekend.

Florida manatees and boats did not mix well in 2016.

A libertarian think tank that denies climate change today hired the former chief lobbyist for Peabody Energy Corp., the world's largest publicly traded coal company.

Longtime nuclear lobbyist Tony Pietrangelo is retiring from his post at the Nuclear Energy Institute on Friday, another departure as the industry group reorganizes ahead of a Trump administration.

The Department of Agriculture is blaming budget woes for putting it a month behind schedule implementing a new law for disclosures on genetically modified food.

The Solar Energy Industries Association named Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Abigail Ross Hopper today as its next president.

Democrats in both the House and Senate are pushing legislation that would have President-elect Donald Trump divest from his business empire.

Outgoing U.S. EPA chief Gina McCarthy regrets the perception of her agency as a job-killer, a line President-elect Donald Trump used to great effect with rural voters during his campaign.

Kellyanne Conway, President-elect Donald Trump campaign's manager and senior transition adviser, quietly canceled a scheduled tour of the Canadian oil sands last week.

A conservative group is spending millions of dollars on a campaign to pressure Senate Democrats to confirm President-elect Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee.

The Obama administration today waged a pre-emptive strike on attempts by President-elect Donald Trump and congressional Republicans to roll back key climate accomplishments.

When Nissan rolled out its all-electric Leaf in 2010, the company's bold advertising grabbed attention — and criticism.

President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet hopefuls have been getting grilled in behind-the-scenes mock hearings.

New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo claimed a major political victory today after announcing the closure of the aging Indian Point nuclear plant, less than 30 miles north of New York City.

Without "decisive" action to slow climate change and stop sea-ice melting, endangered Arctic polar bears are unlikely to recover, the Fish and Wildlife Service said today. The agency's final management plan for the species cites global warming as the primary threat to the bears.

Wisconsin's environmental agency struck language on the causes of climate change from its website after an inquiry from a local newspaper.

Phil Scott, Vermont's new Republican governor, said he intends to carry on his Democratic predecessor's clean energy goal of getting 90 percent of the state's energy from renewables by 2050.

The series of storms that have doused the Sierra Nevada in the last few weeks have increased Lake Tahoe's water level by about 1 foot since Jan. 1.

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