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Conditions seem to be improving at a Nevada marina that recently suffered from a massive fish die-off.

Most protected marine areas appear to fall short of their mandates to protect aquatic life, researchers found.

Conservationists are criticizing a California recommendation to not list the gray wolf as an endangered species in the state.

The Forest Service and the Agriculture Department's conservation branch will invest $30 million this fiscal year to address wildfire threats and water quality.

Freedom Industries Inc. President Gary Southern has been invited to testify before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee at a hearing next week on the spill from his company's chemical plant that left 300,000 West Virginia residents without tap water for days.

A bill to extend a popular wetlands conservation program was among a package of water and wildlife bills advanced by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee by voice vote this morning.

Dean of the House John Dingell has yet to decide whether he wants to return to his old perch as the top Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee, but the Michigander got support this morning from both sides of his party's ideological spectrum should he choose to make a run.

The Sierra Club is considering a suspension for its San Diego chapter in response to an ongoing policy and personnel dispute with the environmental group's national office.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz today said supporting oil and natural gas as part of an "all of the above" energy strategy does not run counter to White House efforts to cut carbon emissions.

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), in what could be one of his last acts at the committee's helm, today asked the Energy Department for an independent study on how lifting U.S. crude export limits would affect domestic gasoline prices.

Nancy Sutley's chief of staff, Mike Boots, will take the helm of the Council on Environmental Quality later this month.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee swiftly advanced several key nominations today.

The country's largest nuclear operators yesterday reiterated their calls for market changes to prevent a spate of reactor closures in markets that they say are becoming too reliant on subsidized renewables and cheap gas amid premature plant retirements.

Two supervisors at the Fish and Wildlife Service purposely ignored staff concerns in order to shrink the habitat of the endangered American burying beetle, committing scientific misconduct of a "serious and intentional nature," according to newly released internal documents.

Human rights groups are pushing back against a crackdown by Russian authorities to arrest environmental protesters ahead of the Sochi Olympics.

Italy's president signed an emergency law yesterday to place new penalties on illegal dumping and provide funding for remediating what has become a growing problem in the southern region of Campania.

With five-year stormwater permits expiring this month, a coalition of state and national environmental groups are calling on the New Jersey government to reduce water pollution by strengthening rules governing sewage, highway and development runoff.

The return of 16 Ohio Department of Natural Resources wildlife officers to law enforcement duties this week did not end a controversy surrounding them, as the state inspector general now suspects officials of illegally withholding records from investigators.