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Three environmental groups are suing a Florida power plant, alleging the company's coal ash impoundments have leaked millions of gallons of toxic pollutants into the Apalachicola River.

Federal appellate judges today bluntly dismissed a lawsuit brought by children seeking to force various agencies to take more action to combat climate change.

A research team from Utah State University has developed a smartphone app to monitor roadkill.

As African elephant poaching surges a world away, visitors to "Antiques Roadshow" will no longer be able to have their ivory tusks assessed.

The California Fish and Game Commission has voted to include gray wolves on the state's endangered list after biologists announced that a wolf famous for visiting from Oregon has fathered pups 50 miles from the border.

The decades-long effort to recover the endangered California condor appears to have reached a major milestone, with researchers announcing they have evidence of the first-ever hatching of a condor chick in the wild in Utah.

In an effort to break Ukraine's dependence on natural gas imported from its hostile neighbor Russia, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) today introduced a bill to help the country reduce its overall energy use and extract more oil and natural gas from within its borders.

Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said this morning that he wants a bipartisan deal in the next few weeks to avert a Highway Trust Fund crisis, a few hours before the Senate Appropriations Committee advanced a transportation spending bill for fiscal 2015.

The Senate Appropriations Committee today passed a bill to fund the Commerce and Justice departments, setting the stage for a floor vote on it and a handful of other spending bills later this month.

Environmental group Alaska Conservation Voters has launched a political action committee to promote Democratic Sen. Mark Begich's re-election and praise him for opposing the controversial Pebble mine project.

President Obama and European leaders called for "urgent and concrete action" to tackle climate change at a summit of the Group of Seven nations today in Brussels.

The Obama administration's proposed power plant rule could benefit Democrats in key swing states, a poll released today shows.

Former Duke Energy Corp. CEO Jim Rogers today said U.S. EPA's new carbon-curbing rule for existing plants will transform the power sector and accelerate "inevitable" coal plant retirements, alongside the looming closure of aging reactors.

Reactions to U.S. EPA's proposed carbon rule for power plants came fast and furious from politicians, industry groups and environmentalists in the wake of -- and even ahead of -- the rule's release Monday.

A former assistant secretary at the Interior Department directed federal money to friends, complimented an employee on her "hot ass" and stayed rent-free with another subordinate, according to the agency's inspector general.

Despite White House promises to "spur" innovation in drumming up support for the new U.S. EPA rule to cut carbon emissions on existing power plants, the rule if enacted will not create any great leap forward in clean energy technology.

There was a time when U.S. EPA kept above the fray, cautiously answering questions about its policies at congressional hearings and generally ignoring shots from opponents in Congress and the advocacy community.

HOUSTON -- Four years after the deadly Macondo offshore well blowout and explosion, oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico remains unsafe despite scores of reform efforts, an independent federal investigative team warns in a report released here today.

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Officials are still puzzling over last month's deadly mudslide in Colorado and said it remains a threat to nearby residents.

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