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Three travel industry trade groups yesterday announced that they would work with a coalition of businesses and nonprofits focused on reducing wildlife trafficking.

The Interior Department will lease more than 122,000 acres off North Carolina to commercial wind farms as part of its effort to boost renewable energy development.

The outgoing Obama administration has formally withdrawn a set of controversial oil and gas leases covering nearly 40,000 acres inside an environmentally sensitive section of Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest.

Few top oil traders donated money to President-elect Donald Trump's campaign.

Former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will move to the U.S. Dairy Export Council as CEO.

The Obama administration's top environmental lawyer won't be sticking around Washington to watch Donald Trump's inauguration.

U.S. EPA's Office of Water was rocked in President Obama's second term by a public health disaster as lead poisoned drinking water in Flint, Mich., and a political storm over a high-profile rule that was supposed to clarify what wetlands and waterways qualify for automatic Clean Water Act protection.

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson yesterday reintroduced legislation aimed at removing Endangered Species Act protections from gray wolves across the Great Lakes region and in Wyoming.

Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are calling on Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) to "immediately reopen" the panel's investigation into the Flint, Mich., water crisis.

Environmentalists and clean energy groups disagree over President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Energy Department ahead of tomorrow's confirmation hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

A merger between two of the biggest seed and farm chemical companies may hinge on an agreement to boost research into new products.

Dozens of professional journalism organizations are seeking a meeting with the Trump transition team to discuss media access to federal agencies in the incoming administration.

Wilbur Ross pledged today to support federal scientists if confirmed as Commerce secretary, but he declined to commit to upholding a 2011 scientific integrity policy at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) today said that she would bring fresh perspective to the United Nations and that climate change issues would remain "on the table" if she is confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the international governing body.

In yet another sign of the nuclear industry's woes, the Nuclear Energy Institute has slashed 16 staff positions to cut costs and stretch membership fees as a growing number of struggling U.S. reactors close.

The planet reached its highest average surface temperature on record in 2016, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported today. It was the third consecutive year that a new global annual temperature record was set.

President-elect Donald Trump is planning to start rolling out executive orders on Inauguration Day, his spokesman said today.

President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead U.S. EPA, Scott Pruitt, told lawmakers today that he won't try to dismantle the agency that he says has a "very valuable role." And while the Oklahoma Republican attorney general professed a belief in climate change, he said the question of whether humans are spurring warming is "subject to continuing debate."