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Greenpeace staffers have asked one of Greenpeace's top executives to resign in the aftermath of revelations that he commuted from his Luxembourg home to work in Amsterdam via airplane.

Federal agencies have continued to cut their greenhouse gas emissions over the past year, according to a new White House report released today.

A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed claims against Chiquita Brands International that could have subjected the produce giant to billions of dollars in damages.

A company owned by industrialists Charles and David Koch has threatened to sue the city of Chicago unless it is allowed to keep enormous mounds of petroleum coke on the city's Southeast Side uncovered for at least an additional four years.

Every year, friends nearby or sometimes lifeguards find the bodies of abalone divers in the cold water along the Fort Bragg, Calif., coastline, north of San Francisco.

The human population may be surging, but several studies out yesterday in the journal Science say Earth is in the midst of its sixth "mass extinction."

As wildlife declines globally, human trafficking and child slavery are increasing in some countries, according to a new study in the journal Science.

Researchers using NASA satellites have found groundwater losses in the Colorado River Basin that could be severe enough to threaten long-term water supplies for the seven states and parts of Mexico that rely on the river.

Researchers are working on a system to predict where Pacific blue whales might pop up on a day-to-day basis in light of a new study that found the marine mammals may be feeding in the fast lane of international shipping.

The National Marine Fisheries Service closed an area off Southern California to drift gillnet fishing today in a bid to protect endangered loggerhead turtles.

Mexican wolves would have more space to roam under a new proposed rule from the Fish and Wildlife Service, but conservation groups are railing against the agency's "clarification" on when ranchers and states can kill the endangered species.

A bill to provide $300 million to establish a network of manufacturing innovation institutes swiftly passed the House Science, Space and Technology Committee today.

Former Democratic congressional aide Amos Hochstein is set to become the State Department's acting special envoy for energy next month, succeeding the retiring Carlos Pascual.

Environmental groups and congressional Democrats are urging North Carolina state legislators to toughen bills aimed at protecting waterways from coal ash impoundments.

Bureau of Land Management Director Neil Kornze yesterday met with the American Petroleum Institute to promote his agency's plan to charge inspection fees for oil and gas drilling on federal lands.

While political battles rage in Congress over U.S. EPA's landmark proposal for curbing carbon emissions from existing power plants, most expect that court rulings, not legislation, will decide the rule's fate.

House Republican watchdogs today rejected a White House claim of immunity for a top aide to testify before Congress, as Democrats accused the GOP of embarking on a politically driven "fishing expedition."

A U.S. Geological Survey study has found significant levels of neonicotinoid pesticides in Midwestern streams, the first large-scale study of the chemical in U.S. waterways.

A report released today by U.S. EPA's inspector general may help pave the way for methane regulations for natural gas pipelines.

Short-term, the Highway Trust Fund is at risk of going broke. Down the road, the nation's public works require trillions of dollars' worth of upgrades and repairs, according to one oft-cited report card. But advocates seeking to rally grass-roots support for more government spending first have to grapple with a forbidding four-syllable word that's heard a lot these days on Capitol Hill: "infrastructure."

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