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The presidential transition team for U.S. EPA included members whose identities have not been officially disclosed, including one who said yesterday that candidate Donald Trump's call for abolishing the agency "struck a chord with me."

The number of rhinos poached in South Africa for their horns fell 10 percent in 2016, according to the government.

A Taliban leader yesterday urged followers to plant more trees in Afghanistan.

Federal, state and Denver Water officials are expected to sign a $33 million forest health plan that would allow continued tree thinning and forest restoration for the next five years.

The redwood trees in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park used to be a secret, but now the destination has been "loved to death" by visitors.

Rural New York residents are flooding the state with solar development requests.

A fast-moving bill in the West Virginia statehouse would permit more toxic waste discharge into the state's rivers and streams.

Miners suffering from black lung disease are still at times struggling to get coal companies to pay for their health care.

Oroville Dam operators plan to shut down its spillway today to remove a pile of debris that is preventing them from restarting a hydroelectric plant.

Obama administration science adviser John Holdren is returning to the Woods Hole Research Center as a senior adviser to its president.

Two former Department of Energy officials are joining a $1 billion fund led by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates to support breakthrough energy technologies.

As rancher Cliven Bundy sits in a jail cell following an armed standoff with federal agents, policymakers in the new political regime are preparing to act on some of his ideas.

A federal court won't rehear the biodiesel industry's lawsuit challenging a U.S. EPA program for certifying soybean oil used in imports from Argentina.

The Supreme Court has rejected an effort by an attorney for Cliven Bundy to enter Bundy's civil lawsuit alleging a vast government conspiracy to deprive him of his lands.

More than 200 businesses have created a coalition opposing copper mining in northeastern Minnesota.

The Alaska Board of Game on Friday rejected a no-kill zone for wolves on state lands around Denali National Park and Preserve during its first consideration of the controversial wolf buffer in almost seven years.

The thorny skate will not gain protection under the Endangered Species Act, after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration determined that the species is not likely to become extinct in the foreseeable future.

A Pennsylvania congressman is joining the crowd of federal lawmakers pushing the Department of Defense to improve its cleanup of water contamination at military bases.

The House Natural Resources Committee's top Democrat, Arizona Rep. Raúl Grijalva, sharply criticized Chairman Rob Bishop on Saturday, slamming the Utah Republican for urging President Trump to rescind a new national monument under the Antiquities Act.

North Carolina's first wind farm has divided the state's Republican party, with some politicians rejecting the project for its use of federal tax credits while rural representatives embrace the idea for the revenue.

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