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Maine's soft-shell clam fisheries have reached their lowest levels in decades, threatening one of New England's oldest historic coastal industries.

Nutria have moved into three coastal parishes in Louisiana that had been free from the invasive rodent for more than a decade, but overall wetlands damage in the state is down 10 percent.

The Outdoor Retailer trade show, a twice-a-year outdoor recreation extravaganza, is moving to Denver next year.

A judge yesterday blocked construction of a $59 million irrigation dam citing federal environmental laws to protect the pallid sturgeon in Montana's Yellowstone River.

KALISPELL, Mont. — Seen from high above the Flathead Valley, the area's namesake river cuts across the rich green summer landscape, and its national forest blends seamlessly into neighboring Glacier National Park.

Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise (R) has been readmitted to the intensive care unit at a Washington hospital due to "new concerns for infection," according to the MedStar Washington Hospital Center.

A pro-mining House Democrat introduced legislation in recent days to facilitate development of a long-envisioned copper-nickel project in northwestern Minnesota.

More than 400 conservation groups across the country are urging House and Senate leaders to fully fund the Endangered Species Act and oppose any efforts to weaken the landmark law.

Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC has brought on one of the influence industry's most storied firms.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke advocated for an "illegal and unconstitutional action" when he proposed reductions to Bears Ears National Monument last month, according to a new assessment endorsed by more than 120 academics with expertise in environmental, natural resources and administrative law.

The Trump administration's strategy of delaying compliance deadlines for Obama-era environmental rules is facing tests in federal courts.

The Bureau of Land Management is considering offering parcels for oil and natural gas leasing in a sensitive Utah canyon that has been at the center of some of the most heated protests in recent years over BLM's land management practices.

President Trump doubled down on his sales pitch today for European leaders to embrace the United States' massive shale supplies — a message that inadvertently dovetails with some former Obama administration officials who are seeking climate action.

In a bid to boost fossil fuel production, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced today that he will sign an order directing his agency to hold quarterly lease sales and to issue permits within only 30 days, rather than the 257-day average it achieved last year. "We're not going to be an adversary to creating wealth and opportunity on public lands," he said.

In March, India's Yamuna River was granted a landmark judgment declaring it and the Ganges as "living entities."

Japanese online retailer Rakuten Inc. announced today it will ban the sale of ivory on its site, marking the demise of one of the world's largest markets for legal ivory.

A second pack of gray wolves has been found in Northern California since the species went extinct there in 1924, state officials announced Wednesday.

The Washington Legislature averted a partial government shutdown last week by passing a two-year operating budget.

Oil and gas companies sometimes have to wait up to two years for a permit from federal regulators to drill on public lands, and some state agencies want to trim that delay by allowing states to take over drilling oversight within their borders.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) used a line-item veto in signing the state budget into law to quietly remove language that would have ensured millions of dollars from pollution legal settlements would go to environmental restoration.

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