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Representatives from the fireplace and barbecue industries this week met with senior U.S. EPA officials to air concerns about the agency's plans for reducing pollution from wood-burning stoves and heaters.

U.S. EPA chief Gina McCarthy won't be on the agenda at this year's annual conference of environmental journalists.

Regulations are needed to ensure that new crops grown for fuel do not choke out native plant species, according to a pair of studies led by Illinois researchers.

A federal judge this week questioned a rule change that restructured the observer program for the groundfish fishery in the Gulf of Alaska.

Only one of two species suffering from dwindling numbers in California received protection Wednesday.

Sales of shark fins used in soup have dropped 50 to 70 percent in China, and 82 percent in Guangzhou -- the center of trade for the predators -- according to a study.

A large wildfire in Northern California has put a halt -- for now -- to an ongoing effort to search for extraterrestrial life.

Higher-than-average temperatures are changing a lot of things at California's iconic Yosemite National Park, fueling increasingly severe wildfires and falling snowpack.

No more than two major hurricanes are expected to make landfall along the U.S. Atlantic coast as federal forecasters yesterday downgraded the 2014 season to "below normal."

Florida has seen the largest bloom of red tide in almost a decade as the algae bloom has killed thousands of fish in the Gulf of Mexico, researchers said yesterday.

A legal ivory trade would not save elephants from a poaching crisis, due to government corruption and enforcement challenges, according to a new paper in Conservation Biology.

Federal officials yesterday charged a California man with starting the state's third-largest wildfire on record, nearly a year after the conflagration began.

Two House lawmakers from California have competing plans to expand Yosemite National Park.

The Canadian government's advertising campaign for Keystone XL in Washington, D.C., Metro stations features a photograph supplied by TransCanada Corp., the company behind the proposed pipeline project.

A former journalist will lead the National Association of Railroad Passengers, the organization announced this morning in a news release.

Congressional lawmakers can breathe a sigh of relief this week: While voters in a trio of states will head to the polls Tuesday, no incumbents in those states face significant intraparty challenges. But that doesn't mean there won't be anything good to watch on election night.

Tennessee voters offered a reprieve to Sen. Lamar Alexander (R) last night -- handing him the GOP nomination for a third term over his tea-party-backed challenger -- but it remained to be seen if an absolution would hold for Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R), whose race remained too close to call this morning.

The political action committee of billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer today launched two new TV ads ripping Florida's Republican governor, Rick Scott, as overly cozy with the nation's biggest utility company and oil drillers tapping land near the Sunshine State's prized Everglades.

The National Toxicology Program was correct to include a common building material as a "known human carcinogen" in a key report on cancer-causing chemicals released in 2011, a panel of scientists said today.

A federal judge yesterday ruled in favor of moving forward with litigation by environmental groups and Native Americans against the government's approval of uranium mining near Grand Canyon National Park.

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