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The founders of an environmental think tank who 10 years ago declared the "death" of the green movement this week blasted activists focused on the Keystone XL pipeline for an "inappropriate" use of civil-rights parallels to describe their fight.

Could voluntary environmental audits on hydraulic fracturing operations bridge the gap between industry and environmentalists on performance standards? During today's OnPoint, Andrew Place, director of the Center for Sustainable Shale Development, discusses his group's plans for audits of shale developers and the impact these audits could have on the regulatory discussion.

New Zealand has met with Japan's ambassador after a whaling ship entered its exclusive economic zone.

Britain's Prince William is drawing criticism for hunting deer and wild boar in Spain a day before launching a new initiative to stop illegal hunting.

Bureaucratic red tape and rising construction costs have stalled a massive water infrastructure project in Brazil.

Turkey is facing a fishing crisis as lax regulation and growing demand and competition put extreme pressure on historically rich waterways.

China's central government is considering new powers for its environment ministry in a bid to crack down on pollution in the country.

An Oregon House committee approved a compromise renewable energy measure last week that would temporarily free small, publicly owned utilities from paying to invest in new renewable energy projects.

Officials across Colorado are struggling to contain at least 86 underground plumes of the cancer-causing chemical perchloroethylene, or PCE, that have been spreading beneath homes, offices and public spaces for decades.

Authorities in the Charlotte, N.C., area are investigating illegally dumped ethanol that has flowed into a nearby sewage treatment plant.

Outdoor clothing company Patagonia wants to make clothes that last.

The fate of a proposed copper mine in Minnesota could come down to the project's future water pollution costs.

U.S. EPA employees can expect to know more this week about their eligibility for buyouts and "early outs" as the agency aims to trim its staff by about 1,000 workers.

Japan's nuclear industry is struggling to hit the reset button nearly three years after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster.

Oil companies for years have illegally profited from cleaning up old underground storage tanks, according to several states that are seeking to recover millions of dollars in past cleanup payments.

New Jersey's Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal that could allow it to decide whether the state's environmental cleanup laws are subject to a six-year statute of limitations.

A biologist has recovered a bottle that was released nearly 60 years ago by a researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

The Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark killed an 18-month-old giraffe yesterday in accordance with its inbreeding policy, despite international outrage and numerous offers from other zoos to adopt the animal.

In recent months, four whooping cranes have been shot, hampering efforts to rehabilitate the population, wildlife officials said.

Supporters of New York City's horse-drawn carriages say the horses are in danger of being sent to the slaughterhouse if Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) follows through on a promise to shut down the Central Park industry.

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