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President Trump this week will order the Interior Department to conduct a review of at least 50 national monuments to determine whether existing boundaries are "well beyond the areas in need of protection" and to recommend potential changes, a White House official told E&E News.

ALAMEDA COUNTY, Calif. — If you think the era of big dam building is over in America, check out the Calaveras project.

Elephant poachers killed two wildlife rangers in Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Renewable energy providers in Denmark will not need state support anymore "in just a few years," said the country's energy minister, Lars Christian Lilleholt, yesterday.

China will get 20 percent of its energy from non-fossil-fuel sources by 2030, according to a state official, and that number will increase to 50 percent by 2050.

At three public meetings last week, hundreds of Idahoans told the state Department of Education that they want schools to teach kids about climate change.

The Alaska state Senate yesterday advanced a bill to eliminate a cash subsidy program for oil companies but threw out a proposal to raise oil taxes at low prices.

Official reports out yesterday point to swift water flows under the Oroville Dam's main spillway as the likely cause of catastrophic damage earlier this year.

The warmer winters brought by global warming could make Americans more active, according to a new study.

A train carrying lithium-ion batteries to San Antonio for recycling exploded in Houston on Sunday evening.

The Department of Energy authorized a Texas company to export liquefied natural gas to countries that lack free-trade agreements with the United States, the first official sign of the Trump administration taking on LNG.

Federal officials said 15 people have been indicted on charges of illegally trafficking migratory birds, including bald eagles, after a two-year undercover investigation.

The National Wildlife Federation sued U.S. EPA in federal court today in an effort to protect Lake Erie from harmful algal blooms there.

A federal appellate court, acting in response to a Trump administration request, has canceled oral arguments in a legal fight over U.S. EPA regulations intended to reduce air pollution releases from industrial plant startups, shutdowns and malfunctions.

An order of monks in the Shenandoah Valley has rallied around sustainability to revitalize its land.

A second leatherback turtle washed up dead behind a sea wall on South Carolina's Isle of Palms during the weekend.

South Florida's Key deer appear to be safe — for now — from the flesh-eating screw fly.

A Mexican wolf pup born in St. Louis gives hope that artificial insemination using frozen sperm could help the endangered species.

The National Park Service is using drones extensively for the first time in its search for two missing hikers at Grand Canyon National Park.

While Congress mulls over funding for President Trump's massive U.S.-Mexico border wall, Mexican engineers are pointing to a new problem they foresee — flooding.

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