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Deployment of carbon capture technology needs to increase at least 100 times to meet global emissions targets under the Paris Agreement and avoid dangerous warming, according to a report released this morning.

The Department of Justice promised Friday to prosecute protesters who damage energy infrastructure like oil pipelines.

Katie Lee, a celebrated folk singer who made her name protesting damage to the Colorado River caused by the Glen Canyon Dam, died in her Arizona home Nov. 1. She was 98.

A 2-mile stretch of Yellowstone Road in Arizona will be named after militia member LaVoy Finicum, who was killed by police during the takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon last year.

One of the largest dairy producers in Florida is facing a criminal investigation after a video posted online showed its workers beating cows.

Mining battles often center on federal permits, but industry officials believe one slight change by the Interior Department could make an major improvement that both sides would like.

The top official at Puerto Rico's emergency management agency resigned Friday, the same day the military announced its mission on the hurricane-ravaged island was over.

Protect Our Power has revamped its K Street roster.

Legislation to reauthorize and reform flood insurance is back on track this week after a Congressional Budget Office scoring issue delayed action.

President Trump's Vietnamese hosts served him shark-fin soup instead of his customary steak Saturday in a culinary move that may have had political undertones.

States, cities, corporations and others fighting climate change will succeed, despite President Trump's opposition to action, four governors said today at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany.

Conservative gadfly Larry Klayman has filed a civil lawsuit on behalf of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy accusing the Justice Department of a "continuing pattern of bad faith and gross prosecutorial misconduct," in an attempt to force the government to drop all criminal charges against his client.

Nearly 60 former U.S. EPA lawyers are urging Administrator Scott Pruitt to rethink his recent directive aimed at curbing the "sue and settle" practice by which groups take the agency to court to force regulations.

Volunteers were able to save six of the 10 whales that beached on the northern tip of Sumatra, conservation officials said today.

Officials in Delhi want to use helicopters to fight the Indian city's severe air pollution problem, but the smog was so thick yesterday that the aircraft were unable to take off.

Rescuers scrambled today to dig through collapsed buildings destroyed by a powerful earthquake on the border of Iraq and Iran that killed more than 530 people and injured around 8,000.

Hordes of wild pigs are running through California's Bay Area neighborhoods and destroying lawns and shrubbery in search of midnight snacks.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) did away with the state's minimum hunting age Saturday, one week before the opening of the nine-day gun deer season.

Herpetologist Chris Phillips was searching for a young male alligator snapping turtle that had been released in an Illinois creek when he pulled up a 22-pound adult female instead.

After failing to heed prior warnings, the world needs to adopt a "zero-failure" standard for mine waste disasters, the U.N. Environment Programme said yesterday.

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