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California declined a nuclear safety expert's offer to conduct an in-depth review of the San Onofre power plant shutdown, records show.

A Greenpeace ship left Russia today nearly one year after being impounded in a controversial protest over Arctic oil drilling.

Royal Dutch Shell PLC's future plans for drilling in parts of the Arctic are caught up in federal courts, but the company's chief executive said operations are still ready to go for 2015.

Chemical company Union Carbide Corp. can't be sued over lingering contamination at the site of an infamous poisonous gas leak in India more than 25 years ago, according to a federal judge.

A California appellate court yesterday overturned a lower court ruling blocking the state's proposed high-speed rail line, handing the project's supporters a major victory.

Officials have discovered an emerald ash borer -- a bug that quickly kills ash trees and is seen as one of the most destructive invasive pests in North America -- in Boston.

Beaches along the U.S. Pacific Coast are more purple than normal as atypical wind patterns wash ashore millions of jellyfishlike organisms.

Alaska's Gov. Sean Parnell (R) has named a spokesman for the controversial mining project U.S. EPA found to be highly dangerous to Bristol Bay's salmon fishery as the state's new fisheries adviser.

One wild horse broke its neck and another was euthanized by the Bureau of Land Management during a roundup operation in western Utah on Wednesday, the agency said.

The National Marine Fisheries Service took a first step today toward possible reallocation of catch limits for the popular summer flounder stock in the Atlantic Ocean.

Municipal water providers in four drought-stricken Western states announced a deal with the federal government yesterday aimed at conserving water in the Colorado River Basin.

OAKDALE, Pa. -- Interior Secretary Sally Jewell praised the public-private partnerships that helped turned a polluted abandoned coal mine site here into the Pittsburgh area's first botanic garden.

A year after President Obama issued an executive order meant to close crucial gaps in the nation's chemical security rules in the wake of a massive ammonium nitrate explosion in West, Texas, advocates say the federal agencies tasked to work together have frustratingly little progress to report.

Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) yesterday was captured on video grabbing a congressional staffer's arm on his way into a meeting.

Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) plans to leave Congress this month, a move that clears the way for his replacement to participate in a post-election lame-duck session and speeds his transition to what is expected to be a lucrative post-congressional career in policy advocacy.

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) yesterday introduced legislation that would limit the flow of campaign cash from lobbyists to members of Congress.

Legislation introduced yesterday in the House would create "empowerment zones" throughout the country that would be eligible for federal funding to reduce air pollution.

Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) yesterday sought a new legislative path for two of his signature bills aimed at revamping forestry in western Oregon and approving water agreements in Oregon's thirsty Klamath Basin.

Arkansas Sens. Mark Pryor (D) and John Boozman (R) want to force the Fish and Wildlife Service to consider the costs of critical habitat designations on private landowners.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will phase out genetically engineered crops to feed wildlife and neonicotinoid pesticides in all of its regions' wildlife refuges through 2016, according to a memorandum dated lasted week.

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