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Federal appellate judges were skeptical today of a coal company's challenge to Interior Department fees that the company claims are unconstitutional when applied to coal destined for export.

Federal judges today sided in part with a Native American tribe in its challenge to the federal government's handling of an Arizona dump that the tribe claims has contaminated groundwater.

The Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark said it would continue the controversial practice of culling some of its animals, despite worldwide protest over the recent deaths at the zoo of a giraffe and several lions.

County commissioners in Utah say they will take whatever action is necessary to reduce wild horse numbers unless the Bureau of Land Management comes up with a plan today.

Officials at Yellowstone National Park said yesterday an online video, like many things found on the Internet, was not all that it seemed.

Japan's biggest online retailer, Rakuten, will stop selling whale and dolphin meat by the end of this month.

SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. reported that attendance dropped 13 percent in the first quarter of 2014 as controversy continues over its killer whale shows.

Two dozen West Coast lawmakers are seeking funds for a system that would give residents a few seconds' warning before earthquakes occur.

Six pesticide and biotechnology companies have poured $455,000 into a local ballot measure campaign that would ban some genetically modified crops in Jackson County, Ore.

Officials in Snohomish County considered a plan to ward off disaster by buying people's homes 10 years before a mudslide buried the Washington community and killed at least 30 people.

House appropriators today examined the proposed fiscal 2015 budget of the Bureau of Land Management, though many of their concerns weren't among the priorities laid out by the agency's head.

While much of the nation will be watching the NCAA men's basketball championship Saturday, the campaign arm of House Republicans plans to put the full-court press on vulnerable Democrats.

Dan Abbasi likes to tackle tough problems.

The Navajo Nation, backed by a roster of federal agencies, has been trying for years to clean up the dirty legacy of uranium mining on the reservation. Hundreds of contaminated sites remain.

U.S. EPA will defend its 2013 targets for renewable fuels in court Monday against oil industry trade groups and a refinery owned by Delta Air Lines Inc.

As Russia continues to use natural gas for geopolitical gain in its standoff with Ukraine, the State Department's special energy envoy said yesterday that Europe can begin negotiating for a slice of the U.S. export pie without a faster pace of project approvals by the Obama administration.

U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy unveiled a major Clean Water Act rule proposal last week by emphasizing it would provide "certainty" to industries and individuals whose work encroaches on wetlands and streams.

Nitrogen pollution contributing to smog in the United Kingdom also poses an enormous threat to a variety of species, experts say.

A long-awaited comprehensive energy plan prepared by Japan's government reiterated nuclear energy's key role in the country's energy security but did not set renewable energy targets.

Environmental groups are urging Louisiana lawmakers to reject legislation that would limit lawsuits over wetlands damage.

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