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Fatih Birol has been elected to another four-year term as executive director of the International Energy Agency, where he plans to shift the policy focus more toward low-carbon energy.

The Department of Energy named an acting nuclear security chief today to replace Frank Klotz, who left the post Friday.

John Coleman, co-founder of the Weather Channel and a prominent climate change doubter, died Saturday at age 83.

A suspected wildlife trafficking kingpin who authorities believe ran much of the illegal trade in Asia for more than a decade has been arrested in Thailand, officials said Saturday.

In twin legal filings, U.S. EPA officials are offering the same message to two different courts: They will make all past-due compliance decisions for the 2015 ground-level ozone standard by the end of April — with one big exception.

Researchers found a critically endangered amur leopard in eastern Russia infected with a disease that usually afflicts domestic dogs.

A swarm of earthquakes has been shaking parts of Reno, Nev., though residents couldn't feel most of them.

Monarch butterflies were late heading south in their most recent migration, worrying researchers.

MONTECITO, Calif. — Experts analyzing the catastrophic mudslide that claimed 20 lives here say there's no doubt it will happen again.

The National Mining Association is going to stay out of arguments about climate science, Hal Quinn, the trade group's president and CEO, said in an interview last week.

The government shutdown made an outsize impact in the Washington area, home to the largest concentration of federal contractors and employees in the country.

Whatever its impact on federal workers, the government shutdown probably won't have a lasting effect on the United States' broader $19.5 trillion economy, experts say.

White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney took on a big role in keeping the ship above water during the government shutdown, with President Trump staying out of the public eye.

This morning was a head scratcher at U.S. EPA.

The Statue of Liberty won a reprieve from the federal government's partial shutdown today as the state of New York came to its rescue, promising to pay $65,000 a day to keep the monument and Ellis Island open.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today paved the way toward construction of a controversial Alaskan road through a national wildlife refuge intended to serve the remote but politically renowned community of King Cove.

The Supreme Court today agreed to take up one hot-button Endangered Species Act fight over critical habitat protections on private land.

The text of the Clean Water Act trumped all of the government's arguments in the long-running fight over which courts have jurisdiction over the Obama administration's contentious water rule.

The Senate this afternoon voted to advance a three-week stopgap spending deal, paving the way for the partial government shutdown to end after three days.

Peru will allow roads in a pristine part of the Amazon rainforest, an action Pope Francis warned against in a visit that ended just hours before the announcement.

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