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Philippine legislators today put off a decision on whether to confirm ardent environmentalist Regina Lopez as the country's resources minister.

Thai officials confiscated 21 rhino horns valued at nearly $5 million, according to officials today.

A bill that would crack down on illegal herbicide spraying is moving through the Missouri Legislature.

The secretary for Maryland's Department of Natural Resources yesterday did not offer an explanation for why he fired the longtime manager of the state's crab program.

Even with President Trump's promised coal revival, Kentucky is doing the previously unthinkable: turning to nuclear power.

A former Fish and Wildlife Service assistant director repeatedly failed to investigate outside work his deputy did for a group they helped oversee and allowed that employee and others to commit travel fraud dozens of times, according to the Interior Department's inspector general.

Southern California utilities got $125 million in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against a contractor that supplied deficient steam generators at the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.

Nevada plans to keep fighting any attempt to restart the Yucca Mountain project, a state official told state lawmakers yesterday.

Natural climate swings may have caused as much as 30 to 50 percent of sea ice loss around the North Pole, with the rest driven by human activity, according to a new study.

Vermont Law School and Lewis & Clark Law School were named the top environmental law programs in the country for 2018 by U.S. News & World Report.

Against a backdrop of repeated warnings about laughter and outbursts from the judge in the conspiracy trials against the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupiers, one man's sketches led to mirth outside the courtroom.

Federal prosecutors yesterday sought to dismiss charges against Oregon standoff leader Ammon Bundy's attorney concerning an altercation with U.S. marshals following Bundy's acquittal in October.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is suing U.S. EPA to overturn recent changes to the agency's regional haze program.

A federal judge ruled yesterday that the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy does not have to furnish emails from a top Obama administration official's personal account.

Exposure to sunscreen may be stunting young horseshoe crabs both in their eggs and once they hatch, according to a new study.

As poaching remains a profound crisis for African wildlife, park managers are trying out drones as a method of combating poachers.

The creator of a popular web-based comic blog is urging his fans to help support a federal proposal to restore grizzly bears across the North Cascades by releasing a handful of bears captured from other states.

The winter storm that hit Washington last night left many cherry blossoms encased in ice, but the worst is yet to come for the city's iconic flower.

Top Senate Democratic appropriator Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy is calling proposed White House budget cuts "simply unacceptable."

There are 46 vital science and technology positions in the federal government, with duties ranging from countering chemical and biological attacks to combating sea-level rise.

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