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The Department of Agriculture published an interim rule yesterday that would require farmers to adopt certain conservation practices before qualifying for federal crop insurance, a big success for environmental groups in the 2014 farm bill.

Appalachian waterways affected by mountaintop removal coal mining have fewer fish and less aquatic diversity, the U.S. Geological Survey found in a new study.

Texas isn't liable under the federal Endangered Species Act for deaths of endangered whooping cranes, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.

The World Wildlife Fund has hired an ex-chief of staff to two former Republican House members to lobby on conservation and fisheries issues.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday took on one of congressional Republicans' favorite arguments against carbon regulation, saying the Obama administration's proposed rules would help set the stage for international action that includes major emitters like China and India.

The Obama administration's proposal to increase the number of streams and wetlands that receive automatic protection under the Clean Water Act has seen a rough few weeks on Capitol Hill, but U.S. EPA officials are gearing up to spend the summer fighting back.

Nine states have joined to support Murray Energy Corp.'s litigation against U.S. EPA's rulemaking to control greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants.

U.S. EPA is plowing through more than 27,000 public comments on the registration of Enlist Duo, an herbicide aimed at the growing number of resistant weeds on cropland.

The Supreme Court ruling that trimmed U.S. EPA's climate change permitting last week shaved only a few greenhouse gas emitters off the program.

The Bureau of Land Management rarely sets deadlines for approving oil and gas drilling permits on public lands, and its employees often lack the supervision needed to ensure permits are approved on time, according to a new Interior inspector general report.

Richard Engler has been in nomination purgatory for a long time. He's not alone. Engler is one of a spate of Obama nominees living in limbo. Across the government, there are more than 200 posts awaiting Senate confirmation -- including some like Engler who have been waiting for years, according to White House data. That includes more than two dozen key nominees for high-ranking energy and environmental gigs.

Hundreds of children take swimming lessons each day in India's Ganges River, where they come in contact with sewage, industrial waste and human remains.

Japan's Toshiba Corp. and French utility company GDF Suez SA are moving forward with plans to build a new nuclear power facility in the United Kingdom, the companies announced.

A recent boost in great white shark numbers off New Jersey's coast doesn't seem to have put a hitch in beachgoers' Fourth of July plans.

An annual Fourth of July marshmallow fight in a San Diego beach community is becoming a sticky affair with local businesses tired of cleaning up the gooey battlefield.

The Wyoming Board of Education yesterday suspended a science standards debate that hinged in part on climate change.

U.S. EPA announced yesterday it has finalized a $47 million cleanup plan to remediate tons of soil contaminated with toxic paint sludge from a former Ford Motor Co. factory in Ringwood, N.J. However, some local groups criticized the agency for not promising to remove all the material.

The head of Texas' House Homeland Security Committee called for tighter oversight of ammonium nitrate storage facilities yesterday, but the proposal is unlikely to advance in the state Legislature because of opposition from conservative lawmakers.

Thousands of schools around the country are located near corn and soybean fields that likely will be sprayed with a controversial herbicide, a new analysis from the Environmental Working Group found.

State, local and federal officials unveiled a plan yesterday to meet U.S. EPA's Clean Water Act standards for phosphorous in a Boise, Idaho-area river.

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