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Richard Lazarus is known as the "dean of environmental law," but he'd rather be called the "solicitor general for environmental law."

Don't mess with nuclear country.

President Trump's repeated promises to plow at least $1 trillion into upgrading U.S. infrastructure have left industries like cement and asphalt makers salivating over the potential boon to business.

The Supreme Court seat that has been vacant since the February 2016 death of conservative stalwart Justice Antonin Scalia is now filled.

Australia announced today that it is ready to start exports of uranium to India.

Malaysian officials said today that they seized 18 rhinoceros horns believed to have been smuggled into the country from Mozambique.

A suspicious fire killed 13 horses used for therapy at a farm near Grand Rapids, Mich., on Saturday.

A man in Sioux Falls, S.D., said an animal control officer suggested he use a leash for his pet snake before handing out a $190 fine and a ticket for "animals running at large."

Extreme weather brought on by climate change is threatening the Montmorency tart cherry, the only sour cherry grown in the United States.

Audubon Society officials oppose a bill in the Oregon Senate that would change the state bird from the western meadowlark to the osprey.

A study gives clues to the source of Arctic haze, the brownish cloud that hangs over Alaska's North Slope.

Ford Motor Co.'s latest police cruiser will be able to chase down bad guys and help the environment at the same time.

At a time when Hilcorp Alaska continues to struggle to repair two leaking pipelines in the Cook Inlet, the company acknowledged Friday that workers have discovered a third potential pipeline breach in the region.

Federal prosecutors have asked for the trial against cattle rancher Cliven Bundy and four others to start June 5 or later.

Neil Gorsuch today officially became the 113th justice of the Supreme Court, filling the seat left vacant since the February 2016 death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

Supporters of the Phoenix Zoo have raised nearly $80,000 to help save the word's most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita porpoise.

Vandalism at the sandstone Anasazi Arch on public lands in New Mexico has angered outdoors enthusiasts in the region.

Two proposals to protect the Arctic Ocean have local support but little international traction.

A plan by Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming to thin and burn wildlands has drawn competing criticisms from local governments and conservationists.

Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) introduced a bill Friday that would ease the financial burden of local governments that take over asbestos-filled federally owned buildings obtained through bankruptcy declarations.

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