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A federal appellate court will hold oral arguments March 22 on a legal challenge brought by environmental groups to U.S. EPA's latest guidance for handling "exceptional" air pollution events.

Rainy winters help reduce invasive species in the San Francisco Bay, new research suggests.

To save endangered fish in Oregon, the Army Corps of Engineers might drain a lake for one or two years.

Crews have removed thousands of tons of mud and debris from the mudslide wreckage in California, but the question now is where to put it all.

Trail cameras revealed two wolves in Mount Hood National Forest this month, the first official sighting in the area since the endangered predators have started coming back to Oregon this century.

Over 50 bison escaped their containment pens in Yellowstone National Park, park officials confirmed yesterday.

House Natural Resources Committee staffer Joshua Hoffman will leave Capitol Hill on Friday to become director of technical services for the Institute of Makers of Explosives.

A House panel today passed nine bills, including bipartisan legislation that would create a national conservation service corps to preserve and protect the country's public lands, waters and other natural resources.

The White House is downplaying reports that a decision in a highly watched solar trade case is imminent.

A total of 64 trade groups, companies, foreign governments and other interest groups held events at President Trump's properties during his first year in office, according to a report released yesterday by a watchdog group.

Two utilities that own more than a dozen nuclear power plants are leaving the nuclear industry's top trade group.

Jack Gerard, leader of the country's largest and most prominent oil trade group for more than a decade, is stepping down in August.

U.S. EPA has seen a surge of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits under the Trump administration.

The Government Accountability Office will scrutinize U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's secure phone booth.

The resignations this week of nine of 12 National Park Service advisers was a reaction, in part, to the Trump administration's August decision to scrap an Obama-era order calling for a focus on climate change in managing resources at parks. "In no way could I envision, with this administration, that any investment of time in giving advice would produce anything positive," former adviser Belinda Faustinos said.

Attention, drivers in Tasmania: Stop throwing food out the window.

Pope Francis tomorrow will visit a region in Peru devastated by illegal gold mining and the resulting deforestation.

The Navy will pay for a filter system to protect a Washington state water supply from chemicals that were used at a nearby airstrip as a part of ongoing efforts from the Defense Department to track pollution from firefighting foam used at military facilities.

A measure proposed for the November ballot in California would allow three large paint companies to put the financial burden for cleaning up lead paint on taxpayers.

Europeans could do a much better job of recycling, with billions of dollars of precious materials thrown out each year, a new report has found.

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