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A federal judge yesterday threw out Oakland's ban on a proposed export terminal, writing that the city's justification for it was "virtually useless."

A federal judge has overturned the Fish and Wildlife Service's 2015 decision not to list an isolated population of greater sage grouse along the California-Nevada border for protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Two Denver Zoo employees will travel to Madagascar tomorrow to help care for about 10,000 endangered tortoises found living in filth, trapped inside a residential home.

Greenpeace today ended a five-year agreement with the one of the largest paper companies in the world, saying its subsidiaries continued cutting down Indonesian tropical forests during the truce.

The Senate Intelligence Committee this morning voted to recommend that the full chamber confirm Gina Haspel, President Trump's pick to lead the CIA.

The House Natural Resources Committee today approved a bill that would give the Interior Department more power to make decisions on managing salmon and other fish that move between fresh water and salt water.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today moved forward the nomination of Frank Fannon to be assistant secretary for energy resources at the State Department.

The American energy sector added 133,000 jobs last year, with more than half of them in energy efficiency, according to study released today by former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and the National Association of State Energy Officials.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry touted "clean coal" technology today but refuted reports his department is trying to bail out the struggling industry.

The Trump administration disbanded a NOAA advisory committee on climate change last year amid concerns that the panel lacked adequate industry representation, according to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

Friday is Endangered Species Day, a global event that's assumed a life of its own.

House appropriators this morning quickly advanced a $44.7 billion Energy and Water Development spending bill for fiscal 2019, debating only a few amendments on nuclear weapons, the funding of energy offices and "poison pill" riders.

While EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's "secret science" plan has garnered a good deal of publicity and criticism, another proposal that could transform the agency's rulemaking process has largely flown under the radar.

Under tough questioning this morning from Senate Democrats, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said he has established a legal defense fund as he grapples with multiple ethics investigations.

Authorities in Colombia have ordered tens of thousands of people to evacuate due to heavy floods at the country's biggest hydroelectric dam project.

Local officials in Colorado have designated a pair of shuttered power stations a historic landmark.

A massive floating bog made of tamarack and cattails has locked itself just off a beach in a northern Minnesota lake.

Florida school officials are investigating a high school teacher over allegations that he got students to help him drown wild raccoons.

Years before he became known around the world as the general who helped free Germany from the Nazis, George Patton bombed a Hawaiian volcano.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigation suggests chemicals in the air at coffee roasting operations could present a widespread health threat to employees.

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