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New York state is buying 21,000 acres of the Adirondacks from the nonprofit Nature Conservancy, and locals now are debating how the land should be enjoyed.

Lingering levels of the pesticide DDT in the environment may explain why endangered condors are having reproductive problems, scientists said.

An Irish man was charged yesterday with illegally acquiring and selling rhinoceros horns in New York City, the Department of Justice said.

The Fish and Wildlife Service is once again investigating a bird death at a Southern California solar power project, this time involving a peregrine falcon discovered at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in San Bernardino County.

California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) has named a woman with decades of water experience to a top spot at the Department of Water Resources.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell tried this morning to bring up legislation to block U.S. EPA greenhouse gas emissions rules and to streamline coal mine permitting.

New Hampshire fisherman Tom Lyons says he can easily catch 4,000 pounds a day of a legally harvested, sustainable, tasty fish. But he's kept his boat tied up because it would cost more to catch the fish than he could make selling it.

House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) today invoked the specter of defunct solar firm Solyndra as friends and foes of Keystone XL squared off, homing in on the hotbed of resistance to the oil sands crude pipeline that has developed in rural Nebraska.

The Senate Judiciary Committee today approved the nomination of one of President Obama's nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in a party-line vote.

With a water-bottle toast to its chairman, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee advanced the "Water Resources Reform and Development Act" today by a unanimous voice vote.

The theft of crude oil in Nigeria could threaten the global oil trade, according to a report released today.

A New York animal control officer was running an illegal side business selling hundreds of snakes, including Burmese pythons, authorities said yesterday.

California regulators have approved new rules that permit technology-based, nontraditional ride services -- such as Uber, Lyft and SideCar -- to continue operating.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) yesterday set a December deadline to rebuild washed-out roads and bridges as his state continues to deal with the aftermath of last week's devastating floods.

Despite directing roughly $40 million in ratepayer money to two nonprofit groups, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power says it has little, if any, information on how the public funds have been spent.

A fire broke out at a chemical plant west of Oklahoma City overnight yesterday, prompting evacuations but resulting in no injuries or harm to surrounding areas, officials said.

As the battle continues over biotech crops, farmers who oppose their growth are starting to worry about their effects on soil.

Southern California Edison Co. and telecommunications company NextG Networks will pay a combined $51.5 million for failings that contributed to a costly 2007 brush fire, the state's utility regulator has ruled.

New York-based Clean Coal Technologies Inc. this week announced plans for the construction of a plant that aims to turn coal into a cleaner-burning fuel.

Russian Coast Guard officials are towing a Greenpeace vessel to a port after it participated in a protest against Arctic oil drilling.

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