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Utah's Wildlife Board has approved the hunting of crows to protect the state's fruit crops and other agriculture despite concerns the initiative was undertaken "just for the sake of killing."

A hedge-fund billionaire has turned loose 20 goats to turn around one of Detroit's most blighted neighborhoods.

U.S. EPA is seeking public input on how to streamline air quality permitting for new oil and gas production facilities on tribal lands.

Former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who last month went to work for infrastructure investment firm Meridiam, has now joined Caterpillar Inc., as a policy consultant, the Illinois-based heavy equipment manufacturer announced yesterday.

A Department of Energy contractor set sail on an eight-day cruise paid for by taxpayers, the DOE inspector general said in a report released today.

The New Jersey Assembly yesterday moved one step closer to allowing direct sales of electric vehicles to its members' constituents.

Expanses of farmland needed to provide corn for ethanol will likely decrease as crop production becomes more efficient, Illinois researchers say in a study released this week.

U.S. EPA's revised 2013 standard for advanced biofuels made from crop wastes, grasses and other plants will go into effect July 1, according to a court document filed yesterday.

Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer plans to put $2 million of his personal fortune behind a new fund for victims of wildfires and "extreme weather events."

A non-governmental watchdog estimates that oceans contribute as much as $222 billion each year to the world economy by capturing carbon emissions and averting climate change.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals won't rehear a case involving a federal permit for a Kentucky mountaintop-removal coal project.

Environmental groups reached a settlement with U.S. EPA on Wednesday to restore buffer zones around streams where certain pesticides will be forbidden in an effort to protect endangered salmon.

One of the world's most famous bioluminescent bays has gone dark, and the outage has scientists concerned.

Blind cavefish living beneath the deserts of Somalia have learned how to identify different quantities, a study shows.

A U.N. global action plan calls for taking care of the world's forests ahead of a key meeting to be held in Rome at the end of June.

Russian authorities have released the Greenpeace icebreaker that was confiscated when activists tried to board an OAO Gazprom oil rig in September 2013, but the group says it could be two months before the ship leaves the harbor.

Mule deer are the latest nonnative species that California conservationists are looking to control.

Oregon regulators are facing criticism from fishermen and local officials over a plan to stop stocking hatchery salmon and steelhead in some coastal rivers.

The long-awaited arrival of summer on the West Coast means sand, sun and hopefully less trash.

North Texans have mixed opinions about a controversial land management plan along the Red River, according to a report published yesterday by the Bureau of Land Management.

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