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New York and New Jersey are pulling out the stops to check black bear populations during a year of increased bear encounters. Their latest plan: encouraging diners to try the meat.

One last group of desert tortoises was released into the wild Friday as the controversial Desert Tortoise Conservation Center southwest of Las Vegas prepares to close its doors for good in December after more than 20 years.

The discarding of human and animal pharmaceuticals into natural environments could be affecting wildlife populations, according to new studies.

Expanding human development has caused a severe loss in genetic diversity in Southern California mountain lions, or pumas, according to a new study that's touted as the largest genetic sampling ever of the big cats in the state.

A coalition of eight environmental groups today filed a federal lawsuit challenging the decision last summer by the Fish and Wildlife Service to not list the American wolverine for protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) deploys a trio of Republican business leaders to tout her Energy and Natural Resources Committee gavel in a new television ad out today.

West Virginia state Sen. Evan Jenkins (R) is pulling ahead of incumbent Rep. Nick Rahall (D) in the state's hotly contested 3rd District House race, according to an internal poll.

Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic challenger Mary Burke argued Friday over the future of the state's mining industry as the two faced off in their first debate.

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Speaking to a room packed with business and political leaders at the Marriott Griffin Gate hotel here, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell promised Friday to use Congress' spending power to block Obama administration regulations.

Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist ripped into GOP Gov. Rick Scott's uncertainty about climate change last week as the two faced off in their first gubernatorial debate.

The two candidates vying for a key open Senate seat in Iowa this weekend sparred over environmental issues in their second debate appearance.

Outrage has been building after the Susan G. Komen foundation announced earlier this month it was going to paint thousands of an oil field services company's hydraulic fracturing drill bits pink.

Former President George W. Bush's first U.S. EPA administrator praised the Obama administration's rollout Friday of a proposed rule for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

U.S. EPA fired back Friday at critics who accuse the agency of giving too much weight to the views of one environmental group in its draft climate rule for power plants by releasing lists of all stakeholders who were briefed by the agency before and after the proposal's release.

A western Colorado county last week said it supports a settlement among environmental groups, energy companies and the federal government to resolve disputed leases atop the gas-rich Roan Plateau.

California's attorney general is investigating the state's utility regulator with a look at how it has set power rates and the penalties for a pipeline explosion, according to a published report and an environmental group.

The Supreme Court tomorrow will wade into a decades-long water use dispute between Kansas and Nebraska.

The winner of this year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences argues it is necessary to reach a binding agreement on climate change regulations as soon as possible or emissions of carbon dioxide may become even worse as countries try to get better leverage for target negotiations.

As stakeholders weigh in on U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan, and many urge the agency to reduce the targets established in its draft rule, some in the environmental community are calling on EPA to be even more aggressive in its final rule. During today's OnPoint, Kenneth Kimmell, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists, discusses a new analysis of EPA's proposed regulations for existing power plants urging the agency to raise the overall emissions reduction target to 40 percent by 2030. Kimmell discusses the formula UCS used to determine new state renewable energy targets and explains why he believes an increase in targets will not affect grid reliability.

A new canal along the Han River, a Yangtze River tributary, was recently completed to aid the region amid a water shortage.

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