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A Tennessee collector has pleaded guilty to charges of smuggling more than 100 narwhal tusks into the United States during a decadelong operation.

Makers of lead paint will have to pay an additional $50 million to the state of California after a judge increased a damage award yesterday.

A peacock is recovering near Chicago after an ill-timed escape from its enclosure at a suburban Illinois zoo.

Authorities in Banff National Park in Alberta are concerned about the effect that "wildlife paparazzi" are having on animals in the park.

Conservation groups are protesting after an Icelandic company started selling a beer that it says contains dead whale.

A massive Utah avalanche that temporarily shuttered operations at a copper mine last year has been named the biggest such disaster in modern history.

The Forest Service wants a 77-year-old man to pay the expenses of fighting a Wyoming blaze he allegedly started, at costs estimated to be about $6.3 million.

A Christmas ocean swell that damaged at least five oceanfront properties on the North Shore of Oahu has relaunched a debate among Hawaii homeowners over how best to protect their land from beach erosion and the rising Pacific Ocean.

Environmentalists are calling on the federal government to take more action against the bycatch of marine mammals by foreign fishermen in the wake of an investigation that more than 650,000 whales, dolphins and other ensnared animals die or are seriously injured every year.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced the launch today of a public-private partnership aimed at getting young people and military veterans involved with conservation work.

Conservationists asked a federal judge yesterday to block Idaho's planned extermination of two wolf packs in a remote wilderness area, arguing that the plan flouts federal law designed to preserve the area's primitive character.

The top spokeswoman for House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is following a well-trod path from Capitol Hill to K Street.

Nearly 130 environmental, public health and civil rights groups are urging legislators to oppose a package of bills aimed at increasing states' roles in hazardous site cleanups set for a House vote tomorrow.

Building America's Future, a group dedicated to promoting government investment in infrastructure and transportation projects, announced today that former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will become one of its co-chairmen, joining former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) and former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) as the organization's titular leaders.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas Donohue today reiterated his call on President Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline and open more federal land to oil and gas drilling, moves that he said would spur economic growth and create thousands of new jobs.

Progressive groups are demanding that the White House cease so-called Mother-May-I meetings, where agencies ask permission to submit individual rules to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

The White House is on the hunt for a new Council on Environmental Quality chief.

A federal judge has signed off on Florida's water pollution standards, which environmentalists say don't meet the requirements of a legal agreement they have with U.S. EPA.

California's intensifying drought is forcing water managers to make tough choices that pit fish species against one another for survival.

More than 300 groups are rejecting calls from top climate scientists to embrace nuclear power to fight climate change since renewables cannot be deployed fast enough.

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