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When a fellow inmate at the Nevada Southern Detention Center suggested Christian author Mike Stickler strike up a conversation with rancher Cliven Bundy last spring, the Nevada native admitted he didn't know what to expect.

Interior Department officials are now tailoring a lucrative uniform contract to help park rangers and other employees dress for success.

Pricing carbon is not in the mix in a tax code overhaul framework released today by the White House and congressional tax-writing committees.

Former U.S. EPA officials are expressing bewilderment at Administrator Scott Pruitt's plan for building a $25,000 secure phone booth in his headquarters office.

Vietnam restarted its annual water buffalo fighting festival today amid protests of its violent nature.

The Popocatépetl volcano spewed ash and molten rock over towns outside Mexico City for several hours yesterday morning.

Mountains of scrap paper products are piling up on Hong Kong's docks, and its waste paper collection sites can't take any more of it. Cargo ships loaded with paper for recycling can't go anywhere.

Disaster workers in Bali are facing the unusual challenge of dealing with the thousands of cows left behind by villagers fleeing the island, a popular tourist destination, amid warnings that its volcano is on the verge of a major eruption.

Oregon's cash-strapped Douglas County found money to pay for a nonprofit called Communities for Healthy Forests to make a video that supports the timber industry and pushes back against environmental regulations.

Wyoming's first proposed coal mine in decades will have to examine how its operations will affect water and land stability before it can get a state permit, an independent citizens council ruled yesterday.

Walmart wants to clean up chemicals in its stores, setting new targets to reduce potentially harmful substances in its products by 2022.

The Fish and Wildlife Service yesterday approved a plan to pump more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta this fall.

A trading program to reduce ozone-forming emissions yielded billions of dollars in savings through reduced use of medications during an almost five-year period, a new study has concluded.

A lawyer who has spent years litigating over pollution from DuPont Co.'s chemical plants is a winner of this year's Right Livelihood Award, an international honor nicknamed the "Alternative Nobel Prize."

U.S. EPA's inspections of imported pesticides fall far short of the agency's goals, potentially allowing illegal pesticides into the country, the EPA Office of Inspector General said today.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is urging manufacturers, retailers and consumers to avoid exposing pregnant women and kids to a broad class of chemicals that are commonly added to foams, textiles and plastic in a bid to improve resistance to fire.

The Department of Energy should do more to promote private-sector energy projects on property it owns, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine said today.