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The National Park Service wants to reduce the number of bison in the Grand Canyon and is advertising for hunters to help thin the herd.

The Alaska Wilderness League has tapped a former employee as its new executive director, effective Oct. 10.

Tribes in Montana and Wyoming will renew their push on Saturday to rename Yellowstone National Park's Hayden Valley, saying it should not honor Ferdinand Hayden because he advocated for genocide.

Some Tesla owners fleeing Hurricane Irma over the weekend got a surprise from the carmaker to help get them away from the danger zone.

U.S. EPA yesterday issued a two-week waiver for electricity companies in Florida, allowing them to violate federal air and water standards in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma.

Irma, which has weakened to a tropical depression, has killed at least three people in Georgia and one in South Carolina.

In the largest reported spill since Hurricane Harvey, two storage tanks damaged by the storm leaked more than 460,000 gallons near the Houston Ship Channel.

Breaches at wastewater treatment plants during Hurricane Harvey contaminated floodwaters in at least two Houston neighborhoods with bacteria and toxins, testing has found.

Emergency federal fuel programs that the Trump administration wants to dismantle are gaining support in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will vote Thursday on two nominees for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, along with picks for the departments of Energy and the Interior.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt in a letter yesterday to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) pushed back against conflict-of-interest concerns involving billionaire investor Carl Icahn and a pending renewable fuel standard regulatory matter.

Legislation aimed at reopening a beach closed by billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla is headed to California Gov. Jerry Brown (D).

A top House appropriator scolded U.S. EPA today for an agency press release last week that criticized a reporter in unusually personal terms.

The shooting of a circus tiger named Suzy that had escaped into an Atlanta suburb last week now has federal officials joining the hunt for answers.

When Ann Phillips was leading training exercises with allied naval forces in the Baltic Sea, she brought her own cold-weather gear.

U.S. EPA has begun investigating a chemical plant disaster that followed Hurricane Harvey's inundation of an Arkema Inc. facility northeast of Houston.

A Department of Energy solar program targeted for budget cuts announced today it has reached a landmark cost reduction goal and will expand its focus.

The horrifying "fatberg" clogging a London sewer could end up in a museum.

China's plan to start blending ethanol into its gasoline in the next three years will likely spur billions in investment in the country's nascent biofuels industry, according to industry officials.

The top ethics official at Southern California's Metropolitan Water District said yesterday she is resigning.

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