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Navajo President Ben Shelly yesterday came up short in a crowded primary race for president of the nation's largest American Indian reservation.

A political action committee formed by technology entrepreneurs yesterday urged the two candidates in a contentious battle for Iowa's open Senate seat to reject contributions from undisclosed outside donors.

Former Arizona state Rep. Ruben Gallego, a favorite of environmental groups, claimed the Democratic nomination last night to succeed retiring Rep. Ed Pastor (D), all but guaranteeing his place in Congress next year. Voters elsewhere in the state, as well as in Florida, Oklahoma and Vermont, also set the slates yesterday for congressional and gubernatorial battles this fall.

A U.S. environmental group is calling on the Vatican to give up its fossil fuel investments.

An attempt to block offshore oil drilling in the last place it's still allowed in California died yesterday in the state's Assembly.

The Environmental Defense Fund is launching a new campaign to rally young voters around the issue of climate change.

Lawmakers plan to interview employees of the Commerce Department's inspector general, ramping up an investigation into whether IG Todd Zinser and his senior deputies are retaliating against whistleblowing colleagues.

Three Republican senators have tried to raise new doubts about what they say are management problems and questions of scientific integrity at the U.S. EPA unit responsible for implementing the nation's toxic chemical laws in the weeks since the agency released a chemical assessment that drew the ire of the senators and industry groups.

Extreme snowstorms that pose a threat to transportation and infrastructure are expected to continue with heavy intensity in a warming world, even as many regions experience milder winters generally, according to a new study from a Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist.

The world has locked-in capital investments in fossil fuel plant infrastructure that will spew 300 billion tons of carbon emissions before they are shut down in 40 years -- a "commitment" accounting that the United Nations currently omits from its calculations, according to a new study from scientists at Princeton University and the University of California, Irvine.

Nevada ranchers have asked a judge to block the Bureau of Land Management's decision to close more than 50,000 acres of drought-plagued public lands to livestock grazing, arguing that there's ample grass available and that removing the animals will increase wildfire risks.

For U.S. EPA at the Supreme Court, it's been the best of times -- and the worst. In Clean Air Act cases, EPA is on a roll. The high court last term upheld a major EPA program for air pollution that drifts across state lines. It also barely trimmed a permitting program for greenhouse gases, leaving intact most of EPA's first round of climate regulations. But it's a different story when the Clean Water Act is in play.

India is hoping to increase its role in the global rare earth elements market with the commissioning of a plant to annually produce 5,000 metric tons of the metals, which are used in cameras, cars, iPhones and wind turbines.

China's government has issued a crude oil import license to a non-state-owned company in a move seen as a first step toward liberalizing the energy market in the country.

Canadian Rangers are demanding better equipment to navigate a vast northern terrain that has been altered by climate change to the point that the Rangers don't recognize it anymore, according to a report.

A government panel appointed to review Australia's renewable energy target has recommended weakening or phasing out the program in favor of cheaper solutions.

Local officials in North Dakota's "Oil Patch" this week gave state lawmakers a guided tour of communities straining with the boom in the Bakken oil fields as they push for a larger chunk of state oil and gas tax revenue.

Sunday's magnitude-6.0 earthquake in California destroyed wine bottles, buckled streets and damaged some buildings, but most home and business owners don't own an insurance policy that could reimburse them for the damage.

Voters in Alaska have upheld a new tax system governing oil production in the state, handing Gov. Sean Parnell (R) a victory as he seeks re-election this fall.

Exxon Mobil Pipeline Co. agreed to pay $1.4 million to settle an alleged violation of the Clean Water Act resulting from a 2012 crude oil spill in Louisiana, federal officials announced Tuesday.

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