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The parents of two teens who died when the truck they were riding in crashed down a Colorado mine shaft on Forest Service land are suing the agency.

A federal judge yesterday sentenced Arizona resident Blaine Cooper to time served for his role in the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, marking the end of prosecutions in the 2016 incident.

A longhorned tick, native to East Asia, has been found in Arkansas, surprising researchers.

A new wildfire broke out yesterday near densely populated housing developments in Colorado, forcing over 1,300 evacuations.

More than 500 university scholars from 20 countries are taking a stand against oil and gas development on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

As expected, Cameron Sholly, a longtime leader with the National Park Service, today was named the new superintendent of Yellowstone National Park.

Michigan Democratic Sen. Gary Peters outlined today the road ahead for his landmark legislation on self-driving cars.

The House Judiciary Committee advanced bipartisan legislation today aimed at outlawing oil cartels.

The House Natural Resources Committee today passed five bills, including one that would ensure that only Congress can federally recognize American Indian tribes.

Don't laugh: The House Natural Resources Committee is now being asked to formally designate the soon-to-open National Comedy Center in Lucille Ball's hometown of Jamestown, N.Y.

Senators from both parties made a long-shot bid today to force the Trump administration to release a health study of toxic nonstick chemicals.

House Natural Resources Committee ranking member Raúl Grijalva says the Interior Department lied about killing a controversial study of mountaintop-removal coal mining's human health impacts.

EPA union officials are bracing for changes on how they do business as the agency comes in line with President Trump's executive orders looking to limit their work and renegotiate their contracts.

The government's top watchdog has officially started its study of how the Trump administration uses the social cost of carbon metric to calculate the impact of federal actions on greenhouse gas emissions.

A House Appropriations subcommittee this morning approved its bill to fund the State Department without any money for international climate programs.

The Senate Agriculture Committee approved a 2018 farm bill today that veers from the House's more partisan version, spares conservation programs from cuts and opens a door to wider protection for native grasslands nationwide.

A law firm singled out by the Trump administration last month for filing questionable Clean Water Act citizen suits is pushing back, calling the accusations "offensive."

Bill Wehrum was just settling in as EPA's air chief last December when he returned to familiar turf: the offices of his former law firm for a speech to an audience that included a onetime client, according to newly released records.