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An environmental group is appealing a permit granted to an Australian coal port to dump millions of cubic meters of dredged-up sand within a few miles from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

Peter Rona, a Rutgers University oceanographer who found hot springs on the Atlantic Ocean floor that led to the discovery of vast mineral deposits, died Feb. 19. He was 79.

The Canadian navy did not cause the death of an endangered killer whale that washed up on the Washington state coastline two years ago, according to U.S. government investigators.

The state of Alaska wants the federal government to withdraw Endangered Species Act protections from a subpopulation of humpback whales that swims between Alaska and Hawaii.

The National Park Service has rejected a request from Grammy Award-winning group Daft Punk to perform a concert this summer on private land adjacent to Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming, the nation's first national monument.

Between record-setting high temperatures and dry weather, the swath of Central California experiencing the worst drought conditions expanded this week, according to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor.

Climate change legislation came to Capitol Hill today, but not in the form of a bill moving through Congress.

A bipartisan bill to designate a national monument north of Las Vegas and sell federal lands to spur economic development and raise conservation dollars in Nevada would have violated a House rule barring earmarks, a House Republican leader said today.

The Bureau of Land Management has announced it will develop a regional mitigation strategy to offset any environmental damage caused by developing commercial-scale solar power projects inside Colorado's resource-rich San Luis Valley.

House Republicans and Democrats clashed today in a messaging war over whether new regulations to curb greenhouse gases and protect U.S. waters are unfairly harming coal-fired and nuclear generation in the United States and abroad.

California wine country was parched early in the winter of 2012.

Bob Perciasepe doesn't hold grudges. He's been sued by friends, been passed over for a top job and regularly listens to lawmakers slaughter his last name. But the second-in-command at U.S. EPA takes it all in stride. He has forgiven those who filed the lawsuits, has hung around to work in the agency's not-always-glamorous No. 2 slot and calmly suggests that the lawmakers who mangle his last name just stick to "Bob."

A scientific analysis commissioned by the British government has found that a pilot project to kill badgers in parts of England fell short of its goals.

Norway has opened a new coal mine in the Arctic as the country debates a proposal to ban its sovereign wealth fund from investing in the coal industry.

Health officials in Australia have advised the elderly, young children and pregnant women to evacuate an Australian town where a coal mine has been burning for almost three weeks.

An Alabama bill to regulate wind farms moved a step closer to becoming law after passing the state Senate yesterday.

An energy efficiency program in Indiana could be shut down by a bill cleared this week by the state House of Representatives.

Oregon's Department of Energy last week approved the transfer of a solar project's eligibility for a key tax credit in an effort to keep alive an abandoned solar project that recently came under new ownership.

Language moving through the Utah Senate would exempt farmers, ranchers and dairies from environmental regulators and lawsuits so long as they show sufficient voluntary "environmental stewardship" on their land.

Wisconsin lawmakers are proposing to increase the state's renewable energy mandate.

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