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Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro on Friday postponed the trial of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy to Oct. 30, agreeing to a three-week delay after one of Bundy's co-defendants argued that the recent Las Vegas massacre could taint the prospective jury pool.

After a promising start to the year for sea turtle nests in Florida, Hurricane Irma destroyed many of the nests as it swept across the state last month.

The global Our Ocean conference to guard marine life raised over $7 billion, exceeding expectations.

Winds, floods, fire and ice this year have all dealt more than $1 billion in damage to the United States. The year has tied 2011 for the most billion-dollar weather disasters in the first nine months.

Data on how many people can access power and drinking water in Puerto Rico went missing last week on a webpage published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to document the federal response to Hurricane Maria. The key metrics were gone Thursday morning, then were restored by Friday afternoon.

California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) vetoed two bills Friday that would have banned smoking at state parks and beaches.

Several wildfires were blazing uncontrollably through California's Napa and Sonoma counties this morning, forcing thousands to evacuate and cutting off major roads.

Hurricane Nate was comparatively merciful in a season of monster tropical storms and hurricanes.

Amy Graham, a top U.S. EPA press official, is returning to Capitol Hill.

Erik Prince, founder of the military contractor Blackwater, is mulling a Republican primary challenge to Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, a member of the GOP leadership and chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, according to a New York Times report.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's secure phone booth has found a Republican critic on Capitol Hill.

California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein will run for re-election next year and will likely have to fend off a primary challenge from the left.

The Supreme Court this week will wade into a legal dispute that could have big consequences for the Trump administration as it attempts to repeal and replace the Obama-era Clean Water Rule.

A little more than three months ago, President Trump vowed before a packed room in the Department of Energy's Washington headquarters to revitalize the nation's struggling nuclear industry.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The chief executive of Puerto Rico's bankrupt electricity company says he did not ask for help from mainland U.S. utilities before and immediately after Hurricane Maria destroyed the island's grid because the utility couldn't afford to pay anybody back for equipment and manpower.

Scott Pruitt will sign a proposal tomorrow that would eliminate the Obama administration's signature climate change rule, the U.S. EPA administrator said today during a speech in Hazard, Ky.

Over 100 hippos died in a remote national park in Namibia in the last week, according to the country's environment minister, possibly because of anthrax.

Dozens of deaths from structure failures in the Sept. 19 Mexico City earthquake could have been prevented, according to a team of Stanford University engineers.

In the biggest class-action suit over the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, a Japanese court ruled today that negligence by the government and a utility caused the 2011 accident.

A loud humming sound was coming from the wall of a home near Newark, N.J., last month: the noise of 30,000 honeybees making a hive behind the plaster.

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