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A proposed class-action lawsuit by landowners against Exxon Mobil Corp. over the company's 850-mile Pegasus pipeline was properly dismissed by a federal district court, an appellate panel ruled yesterday.

Conservation advocacy groups are strongly opposing a state and industry bid to freeze litigation over U.S. EPA regional haze regulations that target several coal-fired power plants in Wyoming.

Two big cats are facing extinction due to lack of food.

Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto took to Twitter to tell actor Leonardo DiCaprio that his government is taking action to protect the rare, tiny vaquita porpoise in Mexican waters.

Necropsy reports show that a well-known Yellowstone National Park wolf was shot in April.

A quarter-million hatchery salmon lived through the Oroville Dam spillway failure this winter only to die this week from suffocation after a pump failed, officials said yesterday.

"Louisiana is losing a football field an hour."

The nonprofit of a former Alabama state congressman took in tens of thousands of dollars as payment from lobbyists to keep a polluted neighborhood off U.S. EPA's Superfund list, according to IRS tax records.

The top law enforcement officials in a pair of Western states this week challenged the notion that President Trump can unilaterally roll back the status of national monuments, warning Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to stay "within the bounds of the law" as he conducts a formal assessment of 27 of those sites.

Mustafa Ali is busy.

As a Republican senator from Indiana, Dan Coats was at best ambivalent about climate change.

U.S. EPA today cleared a path for the Pebble mine to begin the permitting process, promising to scrap the Obama administration's proposed restrictions on the southwestern Alaska project.

Two U.S. EPA science advisers resigned in protest today over the agency's decision to not bring back some of their colleagues.

A giant, dead sea creature washed up on a beach on the island of Seram, Indonesia, last week, launching a worldwide guessing game about what the animal actually was.

Climbing black bear populations in coastal South Carolina has the state considering expanded hunting limits.

A heavily used interstate in Atlanta has been reopened about six weeks after a bridge collapsed in a massive fire.

Gas tax revenue decline has several states adding fees to electric vehicles.

A utility industry trade group is asking U.S. EPA to administratively reconsider key elements of its coal ash disposal regulations published in 2015, a move that drew quick condemnation from environmental groups.

A scientist at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was crowned Miss USA last night, drawing Hollywood attention to an otherwise tightly buttoned-up regulator of nuclear power plants.

BNSF Railway has appealed an environmental review of a Washington state coal export terminal that it says miscalculated and overstated the cancer risk among residents.

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