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U.S. EPA has tentatively agreed to give Arkansas utilities another 18 months to comply with tighter limits on nitrogen oxide emissions at three coal-fired plants in the state.

Polar bear attacks on people have increased as Arctic sea ice has melted.

An iceberg larger than Delaware broke off an Antarctic ice shelf today after a large crack developed over the course of a decade.

Allen Thacker saw a bald eagle eating fish from his pond in Smithfield, Va., and he was not happy.

A federal appeals court upheld a $1.23 million fine to West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice's (D) family coal company for contempt of court.

A Louisiana flood protection board yesterday asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court's decision to toss its lawsuit against dozens of oil and gas companies over coastal risks.

Global diamond demand has pushed miners to brave temperatures that reach minus 30 degrees Celsius in the 11,000-foot high Maluti Mountains in Lesotho.

A Fish and Wildlife Service employee was bitten and injured by an endangered Hawaiian monk seal while swimming at Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands on Thursday.

A scientific study claimed three years ago that the most damaging hurricanes with female names killed substantially more people than storms with male names.

The National Park Service has set Aug. 28 as the date for a rate hike in senior citizen lifetime passes.

The rate of land loss in Louisiana's coastal parishes has slowed since 2010, but U.S. Geological Survey researchers warn not to celebrate quite yet.

Members of a panel established by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to review the Obama administration's sweeping greater sage grouse conservation plans are meeting this week in Denver with Western state leaders to gather feedback about the plans and how they should be revised, sources said.

The Trump administration has named former lobbyist and congressional staffer Todd Willens to serve as an assistant deputy secretary in the Interior Department.

President Trump's nominees for U.S. EPA enforcement chief and members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission inched closer to full Senate confirmation today.

The Wilderness Society has signed with a top law and lobbying shop run by one of President Trump's personal attorneys.

The Fish and Wildlife Service's plans to change management of the endangered red wolf in North Carolina have set packs of people howling.

New documents obtained by a Montana-based government watchdog show that a conservative think tank is the primary author of a Utah legislative resolution earlier this year calling for the elimination of the Bears Ears National Monument.

President Trump blasted Democrats on Twitter this week for blocking his nominees, but he's about six weeks off the pace set by his predecessors for picking people to fill more than 1,200 jobs that need Senate confirmation.

The European Commission today threatened to refer Poland to Europe's highest court over the country's expanded logging operations in the ancient Bialowieza Forest.

The published studies on mountaintop-removal coal mining's public health effects are adequate evidence to support ending the practice, according to a former West Virginia University researcher and author on the subject.

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