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For the second time in as many weeks, a tourist has been fined after landing a drone in hot water in Yellowstone National Park.

The National Park Service is set to implement a plan at three Civil War battlefields that would use sharpshooters to kill about 2,800 white-tailed deer over five years at all three sites.

In a national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, rangers use bloodhounds to track down poachers who hack off the faces of elephants for their tusks.

Both Nebraska Republican Rep. Lee Terry and his challenger in the November election, Democratic state legislator Brad Ashford, said last night they expected the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to be built -- eventually.

Arkansas Rep. Tom Cotton (R) outlined his plans yesterday for the nation's energy policies under a Republican-majority Senate he hopes to be part of, including a vow to handcuff U.S. EPA's regulatory powers.

Though Google prominently withdrew from the controversial American Legislative Exchange Council this week over the conservative organization's positions on climate change, the company has significant ties to others who cast doubts on the idea that the Earth's temperature is rising.

Interest groups and companies with a stake in the renewable fuel industry have been lining up to visit the White House in the past three weeks as officials wrap up their review of a contentious rule setting the nation's 2014 mandates for corn ethanol advanced biofuels.

The Endangered Species Act should be scrapped in favor of a "non-punitive" system that rewards landowners who voluntarily conserve and enhance wildlife on their properties, according to a new report released yesterday by a libertarian think tank.

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Delaware, environmental groups and some utilities today pressed federal judges to throw out a U.S. EPA rule that they claim unnecessarily allows small generators to spew hazardous air pollutants without controls.

Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell yesterday said journalists will need no permits to gather news in a congressionally designated wilderness, saying he's committed to upholding the First Amendment.

CASTLE HAYNE, N.C. -- Along the Northeast Cape Fear River, silos of an abandoned cement plant rise 20 stories over a rusty dock that was once used to load cement for the trip to nearby Wilmington. Downriver, an idle red-and-white smokestack towers over the trees. This moonscape of abandoned industry in southeast North Carolina has been home to the state's biggest local battle over air quality. The site once hosted Ideal Cement, a major cement manufacturer that opened 50 years ago but shuttered operations in the early 1980s. A major company is hoping to build one of the nation's largest cement plants on the site within the next decade. Titan America LLC already has faced five years of resistance from local activists, who say the new plant's emissions would make New Hanover County's air some of the dirtiest in the state. But the battle over Titan has recently taken on greater meaning.

Top religious leaders are urging worshipers across Iran to pray for rain as the nation remains in the grips of a severe drought.

Tesla Motors Inc. must convince Chinese skeptics of the potential benefits of installing chargers while unrolling its grand plan for expansion into the Asian country.

Thirty-six people are presumed dead today as toxic gas and ash from a still-erupting volcano in Japan hampers the search for bodies that remain near the summit of the popular climbing destination west of Tokyo.

Authorities at the Port of Los Angeles are cleaning up the aftermath of a fire that burned a large part of the wharf and sent toxic gases and smoke into neighborhoods.

A small startup company in the Boston area is confident that it is leading in the race to build the first solar-powered drone that could remain airborne for long periods of time.

The Food and Drug Administration today made key changes to proposed rules on the safe growing and handling of food, pleasing conservation groups concerned that the regulations would prohibit certain soil conservation practices.

Buried in the Clean Air Act is a provision that allows the U.S. EPA administrator to shell out up to $10,000 to whistleblowers whose tips help authorities track down lawbreakers.

More than a year after headline-generating buzz erupted over a potential lithium deposit deep underground in Wyoming, the prospects of extracting it or even running further research aren't quite so optimistic.

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