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U.S. EPA has approved the release of a lab-raised mosquito that carries a bacterium designed to kill the Asian tiger mosquito, which transmits viruses like dengue, yellow fever and Zika.

Federal scientists have found that sewage discharge from a West Maui treatment plant has harmed the coral reef off Hawaii's Kahekili Beach Park for years, according to reporting by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

The United States is now the only country that has rejected the Paris Agreement after Syria announced today at the United Nations climate talks in Germany that it would join the pact.

The oil and gas industry will have to comply with U.S. EPA standards for methane emissions for at least an extra month.

The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin has moved to sue the federal government over its alleged failure to protect the water quality of the Menominee River.

Three Texas churches that were slammed by Hurricane Harvey want the Federal Emergency Management Agency to waive its rule disallowing religious groups from getting relief money.

Questions about the power and interplay of Congress and the federal courts dominated the Supreme Court today.

To map the remote Faroe Islands for Google Street View, the local tourism board came up with an odd pitch: Use camera-carrying sheep.

After nearly a century, the practice of performing biomedical research on chimpanzees has effectively ended in the United States, and the animals are slowly being moved to sanctuaries like Project Chimps.

Once a mostly regional food, salmon has become a staple in supermarkets all over the world, thanks in large part to a fish farm industry in countries like Norway that has grown rapidly over the past few decades.

An Agriculture Department's predator control program will not use cyanide devices to kill so-called nuisance animals in Colorado and will forgo plans to trap, hunt or kill black bears and mountain lions in the state until it conducts additional studies on the impacts of both activities.

The Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service is expanding hunting opportunities at nine wildlife refuges and opening another to sport fishing, in a move that intensifies debate over why refuges exist in the first place.

LAS VEGAS — Officials at the Lloyd D. George U.S. Courthouse expect a capacity crowd today when federal prosecutors present their opening arguments in the trial of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, two of his sons and a Montana man, but one key observer won't be in the courtroom: Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.

Will former Vice President Joe Biden make a 2020 presidential bid? He discussed the idea during an event in Salt Lake City last night.

Coal is changing, and Western states need to change how they tax it if they want to help communities coping with the industry's decline, according to Headwaters Economics.

The National Academy of Sciences has agreed to review U.S. EPA's beleaguered chemical assessment program, the Integrated Risk Information System.

A U.S. EPA employees union expressed "deep concerns" to Administrator Scott Pruitt about his effort to curb the so-called sue-and-settle phenomenon in a letter to the agency chief obtained by E&E News.

Anita Perry accompanied her husband, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, on a third trip abroad this week to Paris to address top international energy officials and executives.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is again signaling his determination to slow-walk key compliance decisions for the agency's 2015 ground-level ozone standard, raising the odds that only a prolonged court battle will settle the issue.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today said he has added two former Navy SEALs to his management team, including one who will be charged with overseeing outdoor recreation.

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