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Five years ago, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced with fanfare that it had slapped an alleged market manipulator with a record fine, $469.9 million.

The Navajo Nation today revealed it will lead the legal battle against President Trump's reductions to Bears Ears National Monument and other sites and plans to file its challenge "immediately upon his announcement" expected Monday in Salt Lake City.

Could there be a 21st century Dust Bowl? Some experts won't rule out that possibility if the destruction of native grasslands continues on the Great Plains. "With some mega-drought, we're going to see things blow out again," University of Kansas ecologist Kelly Kindscher says.

Green groups are gearing up to file lawsuits over the European Union's recent decision to approve the weedkiller glyphosate for five more years.

Canada's Supreme Court on Friday sided with First Nations and two environmental groups in a dispute over a vast swath of wilderness.

President Trump has long rallied against what he says is the "war on Christmas," but his trade policies could be a big blow to the American Christmas tree market.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke pledged over the weekend to remove bureaucratic hurdles and speed up coastal restoration projects in Louisiana.

An unusual algae bloom appeared in the Baltimore harbor last week.

The U.S. transportation sector is now producing more greenhouse gases than power plants for the first time since the 1970s, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The Department of Energy is struggling to properly manage and oversee contractors at federal laboratories and nuclear weapons facilities, according to a report released last week by the agency's inspector general.

Nearly 894,000 Texans affected by Hurricane Harvey applied for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency by last week's deadline, the agency said Friday.

Researchers are embarking on an experiment in the heart of North Dakota coal country to see if it's possible to pump carbon into underground wells, rather than emitting it into the air.

A federal court last week narrowed Texas' lawsuit against the federal government over protections for an endangered songbird.

A bid by New York property owners to hold their former tenants liable for cleanup costs under the nation's hazardous waste law dead-ended today at the Supreme Court.

U.S. EPA is facing yet another public records lawsuit, this time over Administrator Scott Pruitt's speeches to industry groups.

Governments at a United Nations environment summit are considering a zero tolerance plan for plastic pollution in oceans.

The Kalispel Tribe of Indians and several other groups in north Idaho are capturing pregnant South Selkirk mountain caribou to let them calve in a secure area.

Many Alaska fishermen will face a tough year given that Pacific halibut catches will likely drop by 20 percent.

La Niña is stoking concern about increased winter wildfire risks in the South and Great Plains.

The Western Governors' Association approved a series of public lands resolutions over the weekend calling on federal agencies to reduce the size of wild horse herds on rangelands and to make it easier to provide disaster relief to Western communities, especially those affected by wildfires.

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