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Officials in Ocean City, Md., are still rejecting a proposed offshore wind project, even if it would provide the resort town with free electricity.

San Diego's decision to close a swimming spot during harbor seal pupping season was legal, a state appeals court decided last week.

Researchers were surprised to find two great white sharks off the coast of Virginia during recent surveys. They were even more surprised when one of the great whites decided to make dinner out of a blacktip shark right in front of them.

The National Park Service is trying to locate a vandal who used black spray paint to scrawl a high school prom proposal at Colorado National Monument last month.

The San Juan National Forest in southwestern Colorado has shut down hundreds of miles of trails and thousands of miles of roads because of extreme wildfire danger amid severe drought in the Southwest.

The Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to significantly expand hunting in a Utah bird refuge as part of a broader effort to boost hunters' access to public lands.

Federal employees can take time off to join in today's parade honoring the Washington Capitals' Stanley Cup triumph.

Public interest groups are calling for EPA to extend the comment period on a controversial proposal to alter the way it considers costs and benefits in rulemaking.

The Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge in New York would be renamed in honor of the living ex-congressman who helped establish it, under a new bill that stretches the usual convention for naming public places.

The House Appropriations Committee has again left international climate programs out of its State Department spending bill.

A $1 billion energy fund led by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and other billionaires is targeting potential "breakthrough" energy storage technologies as its first investments.

Twelve Senate Democrats today pressed Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on whether his department is "improperly withholding" or "politicizing" federal grants.

Senate appropriators quickly advanced by voice vote this morning a $35.9 billion fiscal 2019 spending bill for EPA, the Interior Department and related agencies, with bipartisan consensus and without any new "poison pill riders."

Wildlife officials have rescued a bird whose beak was trapped shut by a plastic ring in a New Delhi suburb.

Wild mammal populations in Great Britain are falling, and 1 in 5 wild mammals could go extinct within 10 years, according to a new analysis.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) yesterday fended off criticism of the planned Mid-Barataria sediment diversion, the state's most expensive coastal restoration project at $1.4 billion.

The Michigan Senate yesterday approved a package of bills that would allow oil and gas and other industry officials to review state environmental rules.

Two Harvard University scientists yesterday offered an "extremely conservative estimate" that 80,000 Americans will die prematurely each decade due to changes proposed or in progress at EPA.

The Blackfeet Nation's tribal chairman and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke yesterday signed documents that put a $471 million water rights settlement into effect.

Rover Pipeline LLC will pay $430,000 to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection over water pollution, according to a consent order.

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