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The deadly Napa Valley wildfires last month had a minimal impact on the area's wineries, according to the Wine Institute, but long-term effects remain.

The proposed merger of Bayer AG and Monsanto Co. could squeeze out farmers who'd rather not use farm chemicals at all, an environmental group warned today.

The United States is poised to lead the world in crude and gas production, the International Energy Agency said today.

The Nebraska Public Service Commission will announce its decision Monday on whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

A repeat of the kind of flooding Hurricane Harvey dealt to Texas is growing more likely because of climate change, according to a study released yesterday.

Three elephants who have spent decades performing with a small, family-owned traveling zoo are lawyering up, though not by choice.

U.S. EPA's former Deputy General Counsel Bicky Corman has joined EKM Law PLLC's Washington office, the firm announced today.

LAS VEGAS — Chief U.S. District Court Judge Gloria Navarro last night ordered Ryan Bundy released from federal custody into a halfway house facility, reversing course on the eve of opening arguments in the trial over the 2014 armed standoff between the Bundy family, their supporters and federal agents near Bunkerville, Nev.

Federal fishing regulators are looking at increasing the number of fisheries mandated to help with a sea turtle protection program.

A "super invader" covered in toxic leaves is spreading fast in the South. Tallow trees grow at three times the rate of most native hardwoods, and they have no natural enemies in North America.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke thinks President Trump will take his recommendation to shrink Utah's Bears Ears National Monument, but he said it would still be bigger than the combined area of Bryce Canyon and Zion national parks.

The Fish and Wildlife Service has now concluded that up to 51,571 double-crested cormorants may be killed annually to protect commercial aquaculture projects.

A U.S. Geological Survey science center in Reston, Va., that receives a major sum of its annual funding from the agency's climate program is closing down, in large part due to Trump administration cuts in climate research funding.

The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee is set to release a bill that would make it easier for governments to use federal dollars to address risks posed by lead and asbestos in homes.

More than 15,000 scientists have issued a "warning to humanity" that it will soon be too late to prevent catastrophic environmental damage to the Earth.

LAS VEGAS — The signs along the sidewalk outside the Lloyd D. George U.S. Courthouse urge drivers on the palm tree-lined boulevard to "Honk for Justice" and free "political prisoners" like brothers Ammon and Ryan Bundy.

Joel Clement, the former Interior Department employee-turned-whistleblower, filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit today against his former employers.

Coal and nuclear power have become so synonymous lately, they are starting to sound like a pair of always-together high school lovebirds.

One day, Colorado hopes a hyperloop-inspired system will take riders from downtown Denver to Boulder in eight minutes. For now, it will build a half-mile test track that's the first of its kind.

The head of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) signed off on apartment inspection paperwork last year even though she knew inspectors had failed to check for lead paint, city investigators found.

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