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The least efficient lightbulbs on the market still dominate use in American homes, suggesting the U.S. is a long way from maximizing energy savings, according to data released this morning from the Department of Energy.

The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to delay oral arguments in an industry lawsuit against California's regulations for mobile diesel-powered equipment.

Prescribed burns in Bitterroot National Forest have been stymied by a wet spring and runoff from a snowy winter.

A beach that disappeared 30 years ago from an island off the west coast of Ireland has returned following a freak tide this year.

Almost 400 migratory birds died last week after flying into an office tower in Texas during a storm, officials said Friday.

A wildfire in a Georgia wildlife refuge has forced dozens of people living nearby to evacuate their homes.

Scientists are baffled by humpback whale behavior across the globe in the past 16 months.

Members of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition remain discouraged about the future of their 1.35-million-acre monument in southeastern Utah following a meeting yesterday with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, asserting the one-hour session was insufficient to address their concerns.

Paul Hanneman, a former Oregon lawmaker, died on May 3 at the age of 81.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will have a primary challenger in 2018: Stephen Jaffe, a 71-year-old employment attorney, who plans to challenge Pelosi from the left.

Climate Hawks Vote, the environmental advocacy group, has endorsed Democrat Tom Perriello in the Virginia gubernatorial race.

The Trump era has changed the White House's attitude toward coal, but not the war of words between the industry's top trade group and billionaire environmentalist Michael Bloomberg.

National monuments in Maine and Colorado are among the 27 being reviewed by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke according to a final list released by the department Friday evening.

Justin Schwab, one of U.S. EPA's senior attorneys, represented one of the country's utility giants, Southern Co., before coming to the agency.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel invited the public to check out his administration's new website on climate change over the weekend, since "real facts were deleted" from U.S. EPA's site.

Noise from transportation and development is twice as high as background sound levels in 63 percent of protected areas in the continental United States, according to an analysis published last week in the journal Science.

A California farmer who has battled federal regulators in court over the reach of the Clean Water Act for the past few years hopes the Trump administration will reverse course in his case.

As catastrophe loomed at Oroville Dam in February, Tom Stokely's mind drifted 140 miles north to another troubled behemoth. "I thought, 'Boy, they are a lot better off than at Trinity!'" he said, referring to Trinity Dam. "At least they've got an emergency spillway."

Five lions escaped South Africa's main national park today.

Two forest rangers have been killed by a mob in a Liberian rainforest after they discovered the group illegally settling and hunting in the park, according to officials.

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