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Two conservation groups announced that they have won a major concession from a large Colorado coal-fired power plant as part of a legal complaint filed last year challenging U.S. EPA's approval of the state's regional haze plan.

Scientists have new hope that frogs might be able to defend themselves against a deadly fungus that is believed to have driven hundreds of species to extinction in the last two decades.

An elephant that appeared in Thai royal processions and co-starred alongside Angelina Jolie was found dead with its tusks hacked off this morning at the conservation center where it was kept, according to the center's manager.

A roadway in Yellowstone National Park is closed after it melted from a combination of the park's famous subterranean heat and hot summer temperatures.

In an effort to stave off federal protections for the bird, Kansas will develop a breeding program for the lesser prairie chicken, Gov. Sam Brownback (R) said yesterday.

As plans for offshore wind energy in Maryland move forward, federal and state officials yesterday announced a project that will study the marine mammal populations found in the development areas.

U.S. EPA and environmental groups have agreed on a timeline for the agency to determine whether a massive coal-fired power plant is causing poor visibility at national parks in Minnesota and Michigan.

More than 100 groups in the United States and Europe have called on negotiators of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to maintain strong chemical regulations in the trade deal.

The Sierra Club and Environmental Defense Fund's political action committees today launched a new ad campaign highlighting Iowa Republican Senate nominee Joni Ernst's call to abolish U.S. EPA.

America's Conservation PAC, a political action committee co-founded by former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, yesterday announced its endorsement of Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) for re-election in November.

Congress needs to overhaul the system for regulating railroad freight rates, two dozen organizations representing industrial and agricultural shippers said in a letter yesterday that laid out a 10-point agenda.

The United States could save more than $500 million off a projected $4 billion price tag for an international project on fusion energy if the federal government provided a larger budget now, the director of the U.S. program told a subpanel of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee today.

Hard on the heels of his committee's approval of a stopgap highway funding fix, Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is again urging Congress to follow up with passage of a long-term transportation bill.

House Democrats this morning announced a plan to force House leaders to bring a bipartisan wildfire funding bill to the floor for a vote.

Lawmakers today debated tougher standards for the Senior Executive Service, the highest echelon of career civil servants, who are placed as managers throughout the federal government.

A group of 22 GOP House members are seeking congressional disapproval of a plan by U.S. EPA to collect what it's owed from people by garnishing wages.

BERKELEY, Calif. -- Federal scientists have designed a rotating, customizable lab that allows commercial real estate developers to create mock-ups of planned buildings to test out their energy use.

In a hearing that exposed partisan differences, a House Energy and Commerce subpanel this morning debated what regulatory responsibilities the Constitution assigns to states versus the federal government.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- After weeks of Capitol Hill assaults on a controversial Obama administration water proposal, U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy toured Missouri farm country this week, asking everyone she met: Tell us how to fix it.

A federal appeals court today sided with U.S. EPA in a broad challenge from two states and the mining industry to controversial Obama administration policies aimed at addressing the environmental effects on waterways of mountaintop-removal coal mining.

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