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Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have reinvigorated legislation to require federally regulated animal keepers to develop emergency contingency plans.

The Interior Department would be forced to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee from the Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Md., under a new House bill introduced by three Maryland Democrats.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry is shrugging off the White House's call for draining off the nation's strategic oil reserves along the Gulf Coast.

Mine safety advocates are raising questions about the former coal executive President Trump tapped to protect the nation's miners.

White House economic adviser Gary Cohn, the lead architect of the administration's strategy concerning the Paris climate deal, this morning affirmed that the United States intends to withdraw from the agreement.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry told Senate lawmakers that his agency would not pre-empt state renewable portfolio standards and questioned models of high levels of wind and solar energy for the electric grid, according to documents obtained by E&E News and submitted to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

U.S. EPA officials determined in 2014 that "flooding and inundation from more intense" storms could spur Superfund sites to spew contaminants.

A senior Bureau of Land Management law enforcement official who was found to have violated federal ethics rules at the Burning Man festival and to have mishandled criminal evidence in a separate case is no longer with the agency.

President Trump could move to eliminate protections for nearly all of Utah's 1.9-million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument — while also potentially making significant cuts to five other monuments — if he follows recommendations made by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, according to a leaked memorandum.

Textile artists in Mexico are increasingly turning back to natural dyes — which use plant and insect extracts rather than synthetic chemicals — in an effort to protect the environment and keep indigenous traditions alive.

The World Wildlife Fund yesterday launched a lawsuit over pollution along the Greek coastline after an oil tanker sank near Athens earlier this month.

Teachers and environmentalists are fighting proposed changes to New Mexico education standards that would replace references to global warming and climate change with discussions of temperature "fluctuations."

Colorado wants to spend the nearly $69 million it was awarded in the Volkswagen emissions scandal on alternative-fuel vehicles.

A federal judge has ruled Atlanta Gold in contempt of court for allowing arsenic and iron to seep into a tributary of Boise River's Middle Fork.

U.S. EPA is set to begin a more than $14 million effort this fall to dig up large swaths of land at a Montana Superfund site.

Sharing economy apps like Uber, Craigslist and Airbnb could help mitigate the climate effects of large urban areas, according to a new study published in Ecological Economics.

Globally, this was the third hottest August and summer on record, NOAA announced yesterday.

Actor James Cromwell, known for his role as the farmer in "Babe," has been charged with trespassing after interrupting SeaWorld's orca show in San Diego.