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Denali National Park and Preserve wants to change its rules for what climbers do with their poop on the highest peak in North America.

Soon there will be more orangutan species to adore and protect.

Outdoor recreation contributed more than $373 billion toward the U.S. gross domestic product in 2016, accounting for 2 percent of its total, the Commerce Department said today.

A former Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee aide's fledgling lobbying firm has signed new energy clients, including the National Mining Association.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today advanced a regulatory reform bill and approved President Trump's picks for the Office of Personnel Management.

House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) today touted legislation to honor slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers as "the right way" to establish a national monument, as the committee approved the measure via unanimous consent.

President Trump gave $100,000 of his 2017 presidential salary to the Department of Transportation to fund a new infrastructure grant program, agency officials said yesterday.

President Trump's proposed cuts to agriculture programs are scaring farmers — with the help of the news media, a former president of the Indiana Farm Bureau said yesterday.

The Pacific Legal Foundation launched a campaign last year to force federal agencies to submit all proposed guidance documents to Congress for review.

A Utah state lawmaker who played a leading role in the push to reduce Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument failed to disclose his ownership of a 40-acre inholding in the site, according to a new report from Montana-based watchdog group Western Values Project.

Two high-ranking Democrats are urging Secretary Ryan Zinke to "stop implementing" an ongoing Interior Department reorganization without first providing details of the effort to Congress.

Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski has long said she believes in climate change and has seen the effects of global warming on her state.

The leading lobby for the electric utility industry and a prominent environmental group today issued a joint statement in support of an "accelerating" clean energy transition that is defined by energy efficiency, reducing carbon emissions and empowering states and customers.

A settlement agreement between U.S. EPA and Syngenta Seeds LLC to resolve violations of pesticide regulations at a Hawaii farm includes a civil penalty that's significantly lower than what the Obama administration had sought.

Labor, Greens and environmental groups in Australia are calling for a review after a report found the federal government is exaggerating its spending on threatened species.

Oregon state lawmakers worked with industry lobbyists to create a plan to tackle the state's air pollution, but the legislation would do less than what Gov. Kate Brown (D) proposed after Portland's toxic air crisis in 2016.

Super Bowl ads from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles "glorified" destroying aquatic habitat, according to the head of Trout Unlimited.

When Hurricane Harvey struck Texas last August, some of the damage came in the form of largely unnoticed "excess" releases of almost 2,000 tons of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and other pollutants, according to a new study that argues the broader problem badly needs more attention.

U.S. EPA's top official in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska wants to continue working with communities on the ground to address the effects of climate change, even as the agency scales back its greenhouse gas regulations.

A leaked draft report from the United Nations suggests that preventing global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius in the next 30 years is increasingly unlikely.

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