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Environmental lawyer Rob Verchick isn't optimistic about the state of global efforts to slash carbon emissions, but he still has hope.

Two California water agencies have asked the Supreme Court to overturn a landmark ruling that found a Native American tribe has a legal right to groundwater.

A federal court today vacated part of an Obama-era U.S. EPA rule for halting "sham-recycling" of hazardous materials.

As President Trump faces other leaders at the Group of 20 summit in Germany this week, his new "Sherpa" will do the heavy dealmaking behind the scenes on everything from trade to climate and energy.

U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers are disputing their own economic analysis of the 2015 Clean Water Rule, now saying most benefits they previously ascribed to the Obama-era regulation can no longer be quantified.

The Chinese government last week renewed its commitment to move from coal to cleaner-burning natural gas in its power plants in an ambitious effort to revive a "golden age" for the petroleum product.

France may close up to 17 nuclear reactors by 2025, according to Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot.

Missouri has banned the use and sale of the weedkiller dicamba after a rise in complaints that the chemical is drifting from treated fields into neighboring ones, causing crop damage.

A record-breaking heat wave scorched Southern California over the weekend.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said he is opposed to expanded offshore drilling operations amid efforts by the Trump administration to conduct seismic testing to search for offshore energy reserves.

Cities with shrinking populations and chronic budget deficits are wondering whether to sell their public water systems to for-profit corporations.

Letting the Columbia River flow more naturally would financially benefit the Pacific Northwest region, according to area tribes.

Texas regulators are broadly disputing allegations of lax enforcement leveled in a Friday report by two environmental groups.

The U.S. EPA fund that covers pesticide-registration reviews couldn't be adequately tracked by auditors examining financial statements for fiscal 2015, the agency's inspector general said today.

Green groups continue to head to the White House as the Trump administration readies its rollback of U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan.

President Trump may soon have an opportunity to shape Washington's second-most powerful court with the expected retirement of Judge Janice Rogers Brown.

Federal prosecutors this week will begin their second attempt to jail participants in the 2014 armed standoff between ranchers and federal agents near Bunkerville, Nev., after the first trial ended in April with the jury deadlocked over charges against four defendants.

A newborn beluga whale died Friday at SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla.

Almost half of the National Park Service's water features in Washington are in need of repair, and keeping the fountains running each summer is a challenge.

Wildfires in California forced nearly 8,000 people to evacuate yesterday, as flames consumed homes and threatened infrastructure across the state.

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