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Leaders of the eight states and two Canadian provinces surrounding the Great Lakes have signed a mutual aid agreement in an effort to stave off invasive species like Asian carp.

A towering sand dune at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore will remain closed indefinitely, the National Park Service announced last week, after two more inexplicable holes and a number of depressions on the northern slope were discovered.

At least 16 people in Arkansas are dead after a half-mile-wide tornado ripped through Little Rock and surrounding cities early today, and residents across the central and southern United States are still assessing the damage after a night of powerful storms that included another tornado that killed one person in Oklahoma.

Ranchers in the West are distancing themselves from a controversial Nevada cattle rancher who made racist remarks in the midst of a fight over grazing rights with the Bureau of Land Management.

The Washington state-based Quinault Indian Nation reopened its pristine mountain lake Saturday to non-tribal boaters and fisherman a year after closing access in an effort to prevent an infestation of invasive aquatic species.

Three species of frogs found in the Sierra Nevada will be protected under the Endangered Species Act.

A coalition of former National Park Service employees says it objects to a proposal by Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) and Rep. Scott Tipton (R-Colo.) to redesignate the Colorado National Monument as a national park, arguing the plan as written could ultimately compromise the Park Service's mission to preserve the site for future generations.

Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu's (D) campaign continues to tout her Energy and Natural Resources Committee gavel in its latest television spot, employing a Republican shipbuilder to praise her chairmanship as key to the state's interests.

Republican lawmakers claim the Obama administration's refusal to fast-track a port expansion project in Georgia is politically motivated by the midterm elections.

As a teenager, Phil Radford campaigned against an incinerator being built near his home on Chicago's West Side. His early environmental activism prompted his high school classmates to give Radford a mock Greenpeace award at graduation.

Exxon Mobil Corp. has bolstered its already massive lobbying team, bringing on Russ Sullivan, a former Senate Finance Committee staff director, and others at law giant McGuireWoods.

The CEO of Russia's largest oil company was among the targets of a new round of U.S. sanctions announced this morning as Obama administration officials warned the entire energy sector could be targeted if the Russian government does not take steps to de-escalate the situation in Ukraine.

Former White House climate adviser Carol Browner said today that her views on nuclear power evolved as she came to believe that the United States would need every tool at its disposal to address the emerging threat of climate change.

The Supreme Court today agreed to review a lawsuit brought by a Florida fisherman challenging whether allegedly missing red grouper amounts to destroying evidence under a white-collar "anti-shredding" law.

A federal appeals court in Denver struck down Utah's bid late last week to claim a 9-mile road along a streambed in Canyonlands National Park, a major victory for conservation groups that could also hamper Utah's claims over thousands of miles of other roads crisscrossing federal lands.

John Podesta hosted some heavy hitters on energy and climate issues during his first month inside the Obama White House.

U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy today struck back at EPA critics in a forceful address to scientists that defended agency actions on climate change, air quality issues and safe drinking water.

How can states incorporate advanced energy technologies in their plans to comply with U.S. EPA's pending regulations for existing sources? During today's OnPoint, Malcolm Woolf, senior vice president for policy and government affairs at Advanced Energy Economy, discusses an upcoming report on the role of advanced energy technologies in modernizing the grid. He also talks about the challenges currently facing the nuclear energy industry.

The birds aren't exactly known for their culinary value, but Utah hunters could have a chance to bag a crow this year.

More than 700 families in New Jersey on Thursday will lose the federal housing assistance they have relied on since Superstorm Sandy, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

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