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A California lizard is being removed from the Endangered Species Act, the Fish and Wildlife Service said today.

A coalition of environmental groups is threatening to sue the Bureau of Land Management for allegedly failing to track the impacts of agency-sanctioned activities on endangered and threatened species in the California deserts.

The Bureau of Land Management has agreed to extend for the second time in a year the expiration date of a group of contested oil and natural gas leases in west-central Colorado's pristine Thompson Divide, a move praised by the industry but strongly derided by local landowners and political leaders who say the area is not suitable for drilling.

The industry-backed American Energy Alliance is launching its newest round of attack ads this week, taking on Democrats locked in tight races in both West Virginia and Alaska.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said today that he would file an amendment this week to an unemployment-insurance bill that would require speedier approvals for mining permits and bar U.S. EPA from regulating power plant carbon dioxide emissions.

Members of the Chevy Chase, Md., Town Council are claiming vindication, despite a finding that they broke state law in their handling of a closed-door meeting with a lobbyist related to a prominent member of Congress.

It's April Fools' Day in Washington, D.C., and the climate wonk community is celebrating in its own way: with spoof coastal adaptation proposals, reams of United Nations scientific findings and playing cards with Charles and David Koch's faces on them.

West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is demanding that producers of a new documentary about the 2010 Upper Big Branch mine explosion take it offline, saying he was misled into participating.

Second of two stories on EPA air pollution monitoring. Click here to read part one.

Grid operators that faced extreme temperature drops and price spikes earlier this year warned federal regulators today that the country's power system is experiencing a historic fuel shift and that price volatility could increase as the system grows increasingly dependent on cheap natural gas.

Tax credits for biofuels and other gasoline alternatives, energy-efficient new homes and coal producers in Indian Country would be reinstated under legislation unveiled today by the Senate's top tax writers.

Government energy spending on programs without defense purposes would fall by nearly half under a budget House Republicans unveiled today that also slashes climate change and advanced scientific research programs while promoting more oil and gas drilling on federal land.

Saharan dust storms are causing abnormally high levels of smog in southern England and Wales.

Toxic emissions from a metal-finishing plant in Southern California pose an "unacceptably high" cancer risk to nearby residents, state officials said yesterday.

Michigan could expand its renewable energy resources threefold by 2030 with little increase in cost to consumers, according to a recent study.

Maine's Department of Environmental Protection would have to write new mining rules under a bill passed by the state's House of Representatives to throw out regulations drafted two years earlier.

Maryland's House of Delegates passed legislation yesterday that will legally protect nearly 22,000 acres of sensitive state-owned wilderness land.

Officials have settled a Clean Water Act lawsuit alleging that a Fourth of July fireworks show polluted Lake Tahoe's waters.

Historians have long thought that William Henry Harrison -- the ninth U.S. president -- died of pneumonia, but new research shows his real cause of death might be linked to water pollution.

A chemical spill in West Virginia earlier this year did not expose residents to serious health risks in the weeks after the accident, according to a state-hired panel of toxicologists.

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