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Former Vice President Al Gore compared humanity's struggle against global warming to moral movements of the past, including the abolition of slavery in the U.S., the fight against apartheid in South Africa, the suffrage movement and gay rights.

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) yesterday reintroduced legislation that aims to curb exports and illegal trafficking of Native American cultural objects, an issue Heinrich has led the way on during his first term in the upper chamber.

On the eve of U.S. EPA setting the regulatory structure to implement the nation's new chemical safety law, a key lawmaker rehashed ethical concerns about a recent addition to the office in charge of getting the law up and running.

Sen. Jim Inhofe yesterday touted his former top aide on the Environment and Public Works Committee to be U.S. EPA deputy administrator.

A federal court yesterday threw out a long-standing Justice Department policy on prosecuting killers of protected wildlife only if the hunter knew the target was a listed species.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke wants the National Park Service to increase entrance fees at some of its sites in an effort to address the agency's more than $11 billion in deferred maintenance needs, he told lawmakers this week.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said today that sexual harassment might be a departmentwide problem, not just within the National Park Service.

It wasn't long ago that scientists were mum on hot-button issues. No more. "If you're a climate scientist at this critical time you don't have Miranda rights," Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Benjamin Santer says. "You don't have the right to remain silent."

Dozens of residents living near one of Peru's oldest mining pits camped outside the country's health ministry in Lima yesterday, bringing their protest into its eighth day.

Household stoves in Poland that burn coal, wood and trash to generate heat make the air from October through April heavy with smog.

China could fine polluters up to $293,000 for polluting soil, according to a draft law submitted to Parliament.

State regulators in Montana voted yesterday to dramatically cut incentives for renewable energy development.

U.S. EPA's Office of Inspector General today released a report claiming that the agency's chemicals office is not reviewing chemical risk assessments as quickly as it could.

More than 250 U.S. mayors meet in Miami Beach, Fla., today to kick off the annual national mayoral conference. Climate change is on the top of the agenda.

A state legislator from Alabama is set to plead guilty to accepting bribes from a coal company to advocate against U.S. EPA efforts to add polluted neighborhoods to the Superfund list.

Several groups yesterday filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn U.S. EPA plans to delay chemical safety regulations.

Federal appeals court judges will not step in to expedite state permitting for a natural gas pipeline in New York.

Extreme heat in the southwest U.S. created tough conditions for firefighters battling a series of wildfires this week, including one in Arizona that has destroyed four homes.

Surging lithium demand as a result of increasing electric car sales is boosting the share prices of companies linked to mining and manufacturing the light metal.

Alabama officials are warning residents to watch out for floating masses of fire ants in the wake of flooding caused by Tropical Storm Cindy.

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