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Using the woody leftovers of timber harvesting for electricity generates much less carbon than relying on natural gas, said an industry-sponsored study released this morning.

Longtime lead U.S. climate lawyer Sue Biniaz is heading to the United Nations Foundation.

The effects of climate change on Montana's Glacier National Park are strikingly clear, according to data released today by the U.S. Geological Survey and Portland State University.

Owners of a farm in St. Louis County, Mo., are suing the owners of a landfill nearby as well as two landfill workers, saying radioactive waste has contaminated the farm and family members.

Don Blankenship, the former CEO of Massey Energy Co., is set to be released today after a one-year federal prison sentence that followed the deadliest mine explosion in the United States in four decades.

The Trump administration says a lower-court ruling requiring the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to create a new plan for managing Alaskan salmon is wrong — but should be left in place anyway.

A U.S. Coast Guard cutter that played a central role in two dramatic rescues during the 1991 "Perfect Storm" will be sunk off Cape May, N.J., sometime this morning.

Southern New England's lobster fishery will get new restrictions in an effort to save the area's crustaceans, which have seen low numbers since waters have warmed.

A study found that sage grouse in eastern Washington thrive due to a federal program that pays farmers to sustain year-round grassland and native plants instead of crops.

Swedish wind turbines kill tens of thousands of bats every year, but halting the blades on windless summer nights could prevent nearly all the fatalities, according to a study by the country's energy and environmental protection agencies.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been developing a giant system of sensors and drones to protect wildlife from poaching threats in Africa.

The National Marine Fisheries Service announced today it is issuing a rule to protect five sharks and an imperiled guitarfish under the Endangered Species Act.

BLANDING, Utah — Boundary changes to a half-dozen national monuments could open up 2.7 million acres of land to fossil fuel extraction, according to a new analysis released by Greenpeace this morning.

Laura Vaught, once a senior U.S. EPA official during the Obama administration, is now working for Dominion Energy Inc.

Environmental and public health groups are protesting U.S. EPA's choice of an industry scientist to lead its Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention.

As part of his broad deregulatory agenda, President Trump is asking U.S. companies' CEOs to identify regulations that are slowing their businesses' growth.

Democrats are urging U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt not to close any of the agency's regional offices.

A former park ranger at the Grand Canyon and veteran of the George W. Bush administration has emerged as the front-runner to be President Trump's chief water manager in the West.

Tesla Inc. is ramping up its entry into the solar power market with an announcement today it is taking orders for a new "solar roof" product.

MONTICELLO, Utah — Make the mistake of asking Heidi Redd how many animals her Indian Creek Cattle Co. owns, and she'll only laugh good-naturedly and ask if you want to know her annual income, too.

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