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A federal appellate court has rebuffed a Detroit utility's request to revisit a previous decision in favor of U.S. EPA on a permitting issue involving one of the nation's largest coal-fired power plants.

Environmental groups are suing U.S. EPA to prod the agency into putting a final stamp of approval on ozone standard compliance designations for two of the East Coast's largest urban areas.

Environmental groups challenged U.S. EPA today over its decision to halt an Obama administration regulation aimed at limiting toxic metals in power plants' wastewater discharges.

Seals are being temporarily deafened by shipping lanes near the United Kingdom, according to a new study that compares the burden on seals with that of people living in crowded urban areas.

The Army Corps of Engineers has only about half the money it needs to build a new dam on the Yellowstone River, but it plans to begin construction of the project, which is intended to save an endangered fish, regardless.

A new branch in a massive Antarctic ice shelf crack has scientists worried.

A deepwater storage reservoir plan for south of Lake Okeechobee was approved by the Florida House yesterday and now heads to the governor's desk.

The Fish and Wildlife Service today rejected a formal request to drop protections from a blind, spiderlike creature found only in caves around Austin, Texas.

The Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition today slammed Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke for meeting with critics of Bears Ears National Monument, saying he is "cherry-picking" Native Americans who oppose the site's designation as the agency prepares to issue recommendations on the monument's future.

Jimmy "Bo" Copley II, the laid-off West Virginia coal miner who confronted Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail last year, will run for U.S. Senate as a Republican in 2018 against incumbent Sen. Joe Manchin (D).

The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today seeking U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's emails and scheduling information.

Scientists are calling on The New York Times to publish a more comprehensive correction to columnist Bret Stephens' "inaccurate and misleading statements" about climate change.

A former Louisiana official, an Alaskan fishery manager and a Sea Grant program director are reportedly in the running to head the National Marine Fisheries Service.

Department of Energy awards for a major research program targeted for elimination by the Trump administration have not been canceled, a Senate appropriator said yesterday.

U.S. EPA is asking its employees how the agency can improve.

A coalition of environmental and indigenous groups today made good on their promise to sue the federal government over President Trump's recent offshore energy executive order.

Brazil's Ministry of the Environment is planning to hire a company to help monitor Amazon deforestation, a move that has conservationists worried.

Environmental groups oppose a plan by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to build lodging near Boreas Ponds, an area in the Adirondack Park.

Solar energy backers say a measure that passed the Florida House yesterday is "good enough" to carry out the decision by voters to expand a renewable energy tax break.

The Food and Drug Administration has denied a petition from the Natural Resources Defense Council and other groups to ban a chemical in food packaging.

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