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A federal judge has upheld a decision by the Payette National Forest in Idaho to protect wild bighorn sheep by barring domestic sheep from grazing in 70 percent of its woods.

California vehicle and engine importing company American Lifan Industry Inc. has agreed to pay $630,000 in civil penalties after U.S. EPA said it imported and sold thousands of vehicles and engines made in China that did not meet clean air standards.

Greenpeace has taken its protest of Procter & Gamble Co.-produced palm oil worldwide after hanging a giant banner at the company's Cincinnati headquarters earlier this month.

A giant rat killed in a family home in Stockholm has gnawed its way through media outlets to become one of Sweden's top news stories, being dubbed "Ratzilla."

With the official death toll at 25, hopes are beginning to fade for the 90 people still reported missing five days after a mudslide swept houses and cars away in rural Washington state.

Japan's whaling industry may face a greater threat than environmentalists outraged over the practice: Consumers in Japan don't have the same appetite for whale meat they once did.

Hikers have discovered an old, unreported oil spill on federal land in Utah.

Water today began pouring into a barren delta in northwest Mexico after water management officials opened the gates of the Colorado River's southernmost dam Sunday.

It's not easy stopping wild pigs.

Five wildlife refuges will gain thousands of acres after the U.S. Migratory Bird Conservation Commission approved more than $6 million to purchase the land.

The Bureau of Land Management today announced it is closing roughly 600,000 acres of desert about 90 miles northeast of Las Vegas in order to remove several hundreds of cattle it says have been illegally grazing there for decades.

A handful of gas station owners this week traveled to Washington, D.C., in an attempt to convince policymakers that there is no "blend wall" preventing more ethanol from entering the market.

Last April, hundreds of environmental justice advocates met with government officials in Washington, D.C., to draw attention to environmental dangers faced by communities around the country.

Executive branch nominees who have waited months to be confirmed may never fill their posts under President Obama, due to an unprecedented slowdown in the Senate confirmation process.

President Obama's pick to lead the Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division is headed to the Senate floor after the Judiciary Committee today approved the nominee by voice vote.

Environmentalists wary of plans to open the gates for U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) might be missing an opportunity to advance their primary goal, fighting global warming.

A federal appeals court yesterday upheld the George W. Bush administration's decision to exempt Alaska's 17-million-acre Tongass National Forest from a Clinton-era national rule barring most roads and logging, overturning a 2011 district court decision that found the Bush decision arbitrary.

House Republican appropriators suggested today they would try to kill a U.S. EPA proposal for expanding Clean Water Act protections for streams and wetlands in their handling of the agency's fiscal 2015 budget request.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this morning advanced two top-level Interior Department nominees, including one on a party-line vote that could reverberate in the November elections.

Germany's largest utility today said it will shut down one of its nuclear reactors seven months before the plant's operating license expires because the plant is becoming less profitable.

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