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The environmental group 350.org wants to name future hurricanes after Capitol Hill politicians who are skeptical that climate change is caused by humans.

A California judge yesterday denied business groups' bid to overturn the state's system of distributing greenhouse gas permits, in a tentative ruling issued one day before this morning's oral arguments.

The oceans are capturing nearly all of the Earth's excess heat, which is leading to rising sea levels and coastline encroachment, according to a draft of the most comprehensive U.N. report on climate science that was leaked to Bloomberg.

Secretary of State John Kerry will not attend the Pacific Island Forum in the Marshall Islands next week, a spokeswoman confirmed.

A global emissions trading system offers the single largest reduction in carbon dioxide from international aviation by 2050 compared to all other feasible mitigation strategies, according to a new report by Manchester Metropolitan University.

The Agriculture Department yesterday released a major draft report with the ambitious goal of measuring all the significant greenhouse gas emissions associated with the agricultural and forestry sectors.

A federal judge sentenced a California woman, her son and another co-defendant earlier this week for playing a part in luring investors to funnel money into oil and gas projects that didn't exist in eastern Montana's Bakken oil patch.

A proposed settlement of coal ash lawsuits between North Carolina environmental regulators and Duke Energy has the public crying foul.

An appeals court judge yesterday ruled that TransCanada Corp. can run its Keystone XL pipeline through a family farm in northeast Texas, removing one of the final obstacles to the completion of the oil line's southern leg.

Federal judges yesterday declined to overturn California's ban on shark fin soup, a traditional Chinese delicacy.

A federal judge yesterday denied an attempt by Perdue Farms Inc. and a Maryland contract poultry grower to recoup $3 million in legal fees and costs stemming from a recent lawsuit brought by a national environmental group.

Overdevelopment is threatening the white-sand beaches that make Boracay island in the Philippines a major tourist destination.

The embattled owners of an aquarium due to open in Austin, Texas, later this year have been ordered to remove fish from the facility.

The National Park Service has committed to preserving the remains of a British frigate that sank more than 250 years ago off the Florida coast within the borders of what is now Biscayne National Park.

As a deadly virus kills hundreds of bottlenose dolphins along the East Coast, fisheries managers said their top priority is to track the outbreak and learn as much about it as possible.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) this morning committed $90 million in state funds over the next three years to a key Everglades restoration project.

SAN FRANCISCO -- The massive wildfire in Yosemite National Park and Stanislaus National Forest has consumed more of the iconic park and is now pressing San Francisco's drinking water supply and raising concerns that ash could pollute the reservoir.

West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, one of the leading pro-coal voices in Congress, will host a hearing on the industry's future in his home state next week.

A top U.S. EPA official said the government plans to redouble its work on environmental justice issues, an important but often overlooked plank in the civil rights movement being celebrated today on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.

When Interior Secretary Sally Jewell pitches her tent later this week in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, it will be along the shores of Schrader Lake in the scenic Brooks Range -- far from the relatively featureless expanse known as the coastal plain where Republicans and Alaska have proposed oil and gas development.

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