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The National Marine Fisheries Service is now accepting applications for catches in its Atlantic sharks research fishery.

Members of a federal advisory committee yesterday issued a sweeping set of recommendations for how the Forest Service should implement its 2012 national planning rule.

Coal-state lawmakers introduced a House bill yesterday meant to hamstring the Obama administration's efforts to stop financing overseas coal projects.

The Public Lands Foundation, a national group of former Bureau of Land Management employees, yesterday endorsed the confirmation of Neil Kornze to become the next director of BLM.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said sustainability needs to be one of the country's top priorities during a speech before a major green building conference yesterday.

Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu's (D) approval rating has taken a nose dive -- dropping 10 points in recent months, according to poll numbers released yesterday.

A political magazine has named a California energy and climate activist as one of the 50 most influential policy advocates.

U.S. Park Police Chief Teresa Chambers is leaving her post for the second time in the past decade.

Despite a long-standing commitment to no net loss of wetlands, a new federal study indicates the rate of loss of coastal wetlands has increased in recent years.

WARSAW, Poland -- A top-down agreement on carbon reduction preferred by some environmentalists slipped a bit further out of reach today as negotiators unveiled a new text that greens say would not hold countries accountable for their national reduction targets.

On Nov. 3, 1960, five days before he was elected president of the United States, John F. Kennedy stood on a Phoenix street corner and spoke about Arizona's vast natural resources -- both protecting them and harnessing them for economic good. Remarkably, his speech wasn't all that different from what presidential candidates are saying about energy and the environment half a century later.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Morocco has 20 trillion cubic feet of recoverable shale oil and gas resources. What are the country's plans for exploring these shale deposits? During today's OnPoint, Mustapha Bakkoury, president of the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy, and Amina Benkhadra, Morocco's director general of the National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines, discuss Morocco's evolving domestic energy supply landscape and its aggressive target to produce 42 percent of its electricity through renewables by 2020.

The ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo has brought its national symbol, the blue-tongued forest giraffe, to the brink of extinction, according to the latest update of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species.

China has detained seven oil company employees and expanded its investigation into Friday's deadly pipeline explosions in the eastern city of Qingdao.

Conservationists are planning a demonstration to lend their support to a bill that would block Washington, D.C., from investing in companies with large reserves of fossil fuels.

An Ohio legislator said he has come to a compromise over a bill that aimed to cut the state's alternative energy mandates for utilities by the end of this year.

A bill pending in the Vermont Legislature would make the state the first in the country to divest from oil and gas stocks.

Cleaning up radioactive waste covering 260 acres of a popular Staten Island, N.Y., park could take years, officials said.

Some of the strongest support for a Canadian proposal to bury radioactive waste near Lake Huron is coming from nearby communities in Ontario.

An environmental group representing teachers at three picturesque Southern California schools is asking the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District to ensure the site meets U.S. EPA standards after toxic chemicals turned up in soil and buildings.

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