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Air emissions from oil and gas waste are among the least regulated, least monitored and least understood components of the production cycle, especially in Texas, where demand for waste storage is growing in the midst of a hydraulic fracturing boom.

The American Petroleum Institute promoted one of its staff attorneys to general counsel today.

A new study released today by a coalition fighting to keep the crude export ban in place projects that U.S. refiners would be able to handle expected increases in domestic oil production.

The California Supreme Court gave the green light to regulators seeking to put a halt to farmers who spray their crops with water to preserve them during unseasonal cold bouts in order to save endangered salmon in the Russian River.

A Texas judge is due to hear a lawsuit next week over whether a Maverick County judge, who doubles as the county's floodplain administrator, was correct to deny a floodplain development permit to a coal mining company.

A federal magistrate judge this week refused to dismiss a case by Pennsylvania-based watchdog group Citizens Coal Council against a company using coal ash waste to reclaim an old mine south of Pittsburgh.

The Supreme Court today granted the Obama administration's request to participate in next week's oral arguments in a long-running water dispute between Kansas and Nebraska.

With an estimated 50 Bryde's whales remaining off the Florida Panhandle, researchers are calling for immediate protections.

A group of Nevada stakeholders has adopted a revised state plan to protect greater sage grouse habitat in an attempt to keep the bird from being placed on the federal endangered species list.

Six organizations from New York to Utah will get 145 of America's last purebred bison under a plan released yesterday by Montana wildlife officials.

A study published today channels Charles Darwin to show that species from ecologically diverse regions are more likely to be successful at invading new territory with less diverse evolutionary histories.

An environmental group is joining the growing legal battle over livestock grazing and the impacts of the activity on a rare and endangered mouse that lives on national forestland in New Mexico.

The Fish and Wildlife Service has decided to list the western population of the yellow-billed cuckoo as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

A federal court in Washington, D.C., yesterday upheld the Fish and Wildlife Service's decision in summer 2013 to withdraw a proposed "endangered" listing of the dunes sagebrush lizard, marking a win for oil and gas drillers in the Permian Basin straddling West Texas and New Mexico.

The New England Fishery Management Council failed yesterday to adopt emergency measures to protect a diminishing population of cod, instead passing a vague measure that asks the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to take action.

Concerns about genetically modified organisms in agriculture have been spliced into political campaigns from Hawaii to Iowa.

Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer's political action committee has been outspent by several outside groups so far this cycle and is on pace to fall short of its ambitious spending goal for the midterm elections.

Democratic Sen. Mark Begich and Republican challenger Dan Sullivan faced off in a debate last night that largely focused on the state's fishing industry, sparring over issues like the Pebble copper and gold mine.

A Texas Republican yesterday introduced legislation that would bar U.S. EPA from proposing a tighter ozone standard until the agency submits a report to Congress on the potential impacts.

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