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A private drone taking photos of a wildfire in Northern California disrupted aerial firefighting efforts by cluttering airspace Sunday, officials said.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore, has conducted the first successful experiment to breed Atlantic bluefin tuna in captivity.

Trees save more than 850 lives and prevent 670,000 cases of acute respiratory symptoms a year by soaking up dirty air, according to a new federal study.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) today offered a compromise to administration officials: Improve access for hunting on public lands and avoid binding legislation.

Climate activists yesterday applauded the Energy Department's announcement of first steps to reduce methane leakage from oil and natural gas systems, but they asked both DOE and U.S. EPA to also promulgate mandatory regulations for the potent greenhouse gas.

The momentum built on the renewable fuel standard is waning as producers sit in limbo before U.S. EPA's final determination on the program, Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow said this morning.

Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) plans to introduce legislation today aimed at spurring renewable energy production in the ocean.

Two senior Senate Democrats called on House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) today to allow a vote on the Senate's version of a stopgap highway funding measure.

The House Natural Resources Committee today passed bills designating nearly 100,000 acres of new wilderness in Nevada and Washington state, along with more than a dozen other lands and wildlife measures.

A Senate committee approved a modified version of a House bill to reauthorize the Department of Homeland Security's Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards program this morning, even as its ranking member released a report assailing what he said was years of waste and mismanagement at the agency.

The Senate this morning voted to advance a $3.57 billion supplemental spending bill to address immigration, Israel and wildfires in the West even as the disaster funding faces skepticism from Republicans in both chambers.

A federal appeals court ruling yesterday upholding government meat labeling requirements may have breathed new life into the Securities and Exchange Commission's defense of rules requiring companies to disclose whether minerals in their products come from conflict-ridden central Africa.

A House panel today tussled over whether U.S. EPA's premier greenhouse gas rule is an illegal effort by the Obama administration to reshape the electric power system or a stimulus for new industries.

As U.S EPA promotes its landmark plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at existing power plants, the agency's research office is struggling to define its climate change mission.

U.S. EPA is on the verge of having more vacancies than Senate-confirmed officials in its top jobs. The departures of two veteran EPA leaders will leave eight of the agency's 14 key political posts vacant. Most of those empty seats have nominees pending in the Senate, but the slow pace of confirmations means it could be a while before the agency is operating at full strength again -- if it happens at all before President Obama's term ends.

An independent judicial panel in Japan has recommended criminal charges for three former Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) executives over their roles in the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

Thousands of emergency workers and soldiers were searching for survivors early Friday in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung after a series of underground gas explosions late yesterday killed at least 24 people and injured 270.

Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's support of a new Vermont law to require products containing genetically modified organisms to be labeled puts the company at odds with some of the world's largest food companies, which strongly oppose such mandates -- including the boutique company's corporate parent.

Facing pressure from animal rights groups, Southwest Airlines said yesterday that it will end a long-running marketing partnership with SeaWorld Entertainment Inc.

Three West Coast governors yesterday formally voiced their opposition to expanding oil and gas drilling off their shores, pre-empting the inclusion of new exploration in an updated version of the Interior Department's Outer Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program.

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