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The movement to divest from fossil fuels has picked up a significant and historically unlikely convert: the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

U.S. EPA will not appeal a district court decision that ruled in favor of a large chicken farm, saying it will instead step up its enforcement of clean water rules to reduce pollution tied to large-scale farming.

When 27-year-old environmental activist Tim DeChristopher disrupted a Bureau of Land Management auction in Utah in late 2008 to block the sale of public lands for oil and gas drilling, he was sentenced to two years in prison and assessed a $10,000 fine.

U.S. EPA Region 7 Administrator Karl Brooks is the man in the middle these days as farmers in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and nine tribal nations express anger and frustration at the Obama administration’s efforts to strengthen protections for wetlands and waterways.

How can solar energy job training in low-income communities help strengthen the clean energy economy? During today's OnPoint, Greg Dotson, vice president for energy policy at the Center for American Progress, and Erica Mackie, co-founder and CEO at GRID Alternatives, discuss a new program launched in Washington, D.C., focused on expanding solar installations and job training to low-income communities. They address the policies that could expand the program to the mainstream and explain the benefits of solar energy to rural and low-income communities.

Russia has signed a nuclear agreement with South Africa that will allow the construction of up to eight nuclear reactors at a cost as high as $100 billion.

When he established one of the largest empires the world has ever known in the early 13th century, Genghis Khan gave all the credit to the god Tengri -- the Eternal Blue Sky.

Brazil refused to endorse a global anti-deforestation initiative that was announced at this week's U.N. Climate Summit, saying it was not consulted during the plan's development process.

State officials shot the black bear believed to be responsible for the first fatal bear attack ever in New Jersey.

Montana wildlife officials are looking into claims a man made on social media about intentionally running over a group of wolves near the Idaho-Montana border.

Legislation is moving forward in the New Jersey Legislature to ban plastic microbeads in cosmetic products -- with the support of the chemicals industry.

New research confirms the fears of Snake Valley ranchers and environmentalists that a Las Vegas plan to pull water from underground aquifers in the area could destroy fragile desert ecosystems in Utah's West Desert and cut off the springs that supply agriculture.

Solving the Florida Everglades' chronic phosphorus pollution problem that makes rivers bright green with fish-killing algae now brings a hefty cash prize.

The nation's oldest chemical company earns $36 billion in annual revenue selling well-known products like Teflon but also has some unlikely corners of its sprawling corporate empire that have drawn the criticism of analysts.

The Department of Transportation needs more safeguards to prevent employee abuse of travel cards, the agency's inspector general found in a new report.

Cleanup of the Department of Energy's plutonium finishing plant at DOE's Hanford, Wash., site has been beset by work delays and staffing shortages.

Chemists in Chicago, engineers in Cincinnati and security specialists in Washington, D.C., are among the U.S. EPA staffers who could get incentives to leave their jobs by early next year.

Increasing the ethanol mandate beyond the volume proposed by the Obama administration would not significantly affect the price of gasoline sold in the United States, according to a new study from Iowa State University.

Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer and his wife, Kat Taylor, have given $150,000 to help victims of wildfires in California, Washington state and Idaho.

When it comes to climate change, doing nothing will cost more than taking action, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew argued yesterday.

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