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Officers in Los Angeles' Water Conservation Response Unit are patrolling the streets in search of wasteful homes or businesses that squander water during the state's severe drought.

Seabeds full of coral in underwater Atlantic canyons will likely push a federal fisheries council to begin moving toward protection of the areas of the eastern continental shelf.

Dogs are now sniffing out invasive stowaways on boats destined for U.S. and Canadian waterways.

The Fish and Wildlife Service will finalize protections for two rare species of butterflies found in Florida.

Stephen Martinko, deputy staff director of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is leaving to run the Port of Pittsburgh Commission, the panel's chairman, Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.), announced this morning.

The Republican co-chairs of the Congressional Western Caucus lashed out at the Center for Biological Diversity for challenging a recent travel management plan at southwest New Mexico's Gila National Forest, saying the "radical" environmental group's attempts to restrict public access to the forest will harm tourism.

With Congress' truncated fall legislative session expected to focus largely on election-year messaging, House Republicans are planning to revisit votes on a number of energy and environmental measures, including the Keystone XL pipeline, U.S. EPA regulations and oil companies' access to public lands, among numerous other issues designed to put pressure on the Senate.

A coalition of biofuels, agriculture and national security interests today launched a new campaign to rally support for the federal renewable fuel standard.

President Obama has signed an almost $11 billion stopgap bill, H.R. 5021, intended to help keep highway and transit funding programs solvent through next May.

Hawaii voters appeared to render a split decision Saturday in the generational showdown that has defined the state's Democratic primary election this cycle, ousting Gov. Neil Abercrombie (D) from the gubernatorial race while giving Sen. Brian Schatz (D) a narrow lead in a Senate battle that remains, two days after the polls closed, too close to call.

Former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is scheduled to campaign in West Virginia next Tuesday for various GOP candidates in the Mountain State.

Call it a record for any public figure: Smokey Bear has stayed consistently on message for 70 years -- one of personal responsibility and careful oversight of the nation's forests, Forest Service leaders said at an event in Washington, D.C., Friday to celebrate the iconic figure.

The Obama administration is ramping up efforts to expand offshore wind energy development in the Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina, an area that previous studies estimated could support nearly 300,000 megawatts of power production.

The Obama administration doesn't think it needs beefed-up regulations to require federal agencies to consider climate change during environmental analyses of proposed projects.

During the contentious 2012 campaign to replace retiring Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), the coal industry was pinning its hopes on Rep. Rick Berg (R). At least that's what campaign contributions show. But even though former state Attorney General Heidi Heitkamp (D) eked out a win by fewer than 3,000 votes, coal companies and other fossil fuel producers -- in what seems like an improbable development given the prevailing politics on Capitol Hill -- gained with Heitkamp a vocal and increasingly influential advocate in Congress.

A year after striking a deal to save its fish stocks by 2020, the European Commission announced quota reductions yesterday for 10 member countries that overfished last year.

California regulators have expanded the list of homes, schools and parks that will be tested for lead-tainted soil near a Vernon, Calif., battery recycling plant.

Outlawed in much of the developed world, a strong market for asbestos still exists in places like India, where executives hold product conferences and tout their wares as a cheap way to build roofs, walls and pipes for the nation's poor.

One Ohio airport is experimenting with a natural remedy to prevent bird-plane collisions, which cost the aviation industry an estimated $950 million a year and countless birds their lives.

Gov. Jerry Brown (D) and California lawmakers are trying to expedite an incentive package that could include exemptions from environmental regulations to ensure Tesla Motors Inc. builds its massive battery factory in California.

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