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North America's largest manufacturer of concentrated nitric acid will lower emissions of nitrogen oxides at 10 plants in four Southern states under a settlement announced today with U.S. EPA and the Department of Justice.

Weak regulation of online marketplaces in Japan is driving the illegal ivory and whale trade and fueling poaching, according to a report released yesterday by activist groups.

Fur trapping has faded to Canada's least popular occupation, according to a recent household survey conducted by the country's statistics agency.

The endangered whooping crane population overwintering on the Texas coast has continued to rebuild despite ongoing drought conditions, according to a new federal survey.

Corn-eating rootworms have adapted a resistance to one of industrial agriculture's biggest genetically modified crops, scientists say.

Yellowstone National Park is offering a $5,000 reward for information after three bison were poached earlier this month inside the park.

Exploratory oil and gas drilling in a large swath of southwest Florida is facing challenges from environmentalists who say energy development poses a threat to one of the state's iconic animals.

Environmental groups yesterday filed suit to establish critical habitat for a prehistoric fish.

U.S. EPA is extending the consultation period with Alaska regulators and developers of the Pebble copper and gold mine on the agency's potential veto of permits for the project.

Thanks to rainstorms last month, California is relaxing some restrictions it put in place to manage its scant water supplies in hopes of providing more flow for farmers, officials announced yesterday.

The chairman of the House Science Committee today warned that the scientific review for U.S. EPA's upcoming ozone pollution standards could be marred by issues of transparency and conflict of interest.

As part of an ongoing congressional push, a bipartisan group of senators are calling on the federal government to take more action to prevent Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes.

A group of Republican House members from California yesterday urged President Obama and Gov. Jerry Brown (D) to ease environmental rules that they said forced the loss of needed water during the state's drought.

An international body created to promote transparency in natural resource extraction has accepted the U.S. application to join, the White House and Interior Department said today.

Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner William Magwood is leaving the agency to become director general of the Paris-based Nuclear Energy Agency within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Illinois voters set the slate for November's general election yesterday, clearing the way for competitive House election battles, as well as a showdown between embattled Gov. Pat Quinn (D) and venture capitalist Bruce Rauner (R).

A GOP senator is accusing U.S. EPA's fake spy and his best friend of coordinating to spread their "tentacles" throughout the agency, leaving a legacy that still impacts air policy.

A bipartisan group of former Interior Department officials last week denounced a proposed road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge as environmentally damaging and dangerous, lending support to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell's December 2013 decision to reject it.

Officials in three U.S. EPA regions have rejected bids by environmental groups to force action on stormwater pollution running off the parking lots, warehouses and strip malls that already dot the landscape.

The White House launched an effort today aimed at helping communities and individuals understand their vulnerability to climate change, starting with rising sea levels that will swamp the coasts. The Climate Data Initiative springs from President Obama's commitment last year to improve how the government provides information about warming. It's also part of a broader push spearheaded by White House counselor John Podesta to make climate change more tangible to an American public that polls suggest sees the issue as distant and theoretical.

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