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Montana officials will ask state wildlife commissioners to allow them to send bighorn sheep outside the state at a meeting tomorrow in Bozeman.

Pennsylvania lawmakers are expected this week to approve a bill that could remove protections for some of the state's cleanest streams.

A Louisiana landfill has rejected a shipment of ashes containing the incinerated remains of a Texas Ebola victim's personal belongings, amid growing public concern over the outbreak of the deadly disease.

Japan's Lake Mashuko, one of the world's least polluted lakes, is facing threats from climate change and invasive species.

An old copper pit filled with toxic water outside Butte, Mont., is a sobering reminder of the hazards posed by mining activities, including, some say, a proposed open-pit gold mine in South Carolina.

A medley of trends, ranging from the impact of high gas prices to a shrinking share of 19-year-olds with driver's licenses, suggests members of the millennial generation are likely to be permanently less "car-focused," a new report argues.

The five-member Idaho Oil and Gas Conservation Commission voted 4-1 Friday to allow Alta Mesa Holdings LP, a Texas drilling company, to have another chance at persuading officials to keep the Bureau of Land Management from collecting potential royalties in an area believed to be rich in natural gas.

An energy company has admitted defeat after offering an ambitious plan to supply electricity to 15 percent of Europe by 2050 by installing large-scale solar projects across North Africa and the Middle East.

A new second in command with enforcement chops will soon be arriving at U.S. EPA's regional office in New York.

The Supreme Court today declined to review a challenge to California's ban on the sale of foie gras.

Researchers in India are mapping poaching and trafficking hot spots throughout the country in an effort to protect the nation's tigers.

Celebrity southwestern French chefs Michel Guérard, Alain Ducasse, Jean Coussau and Alain Dutournier are asking their countrymen to lift France's ban on consuming ortolan, a small bird removed from French menus in 1999 in light of overhunting.

Cameras stationed on highway underpasses designed to keep large game out of traffic in western Wyoming caught a rare glimpse of sage grouse -- 202 of them, almost all headed east, during a three-week period in late August and early September.

Nevada Rep. Mark Amodei (R) is vowing to haul a Fish and Wildlife Service regional director before a congressional hearing if the official does not respond to the congressman's questions and concerns over a recent critique of the state's greater sage grouse conservation plan.

Increased domestic production and low gas prices have pushed energy out of the limelight in the run-up to November's midterm elections, but new polling data indicate the issue is set to play an important role in two decisive Senate races.

Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis is being criticized by environmental groups for touting a renewable energy program he has pushed to repeal.

One candidate in the race for Wyoming's lone House seat said the Endangered Species Act isn't working, while the other advocated getting rid of it altogether during their televised debate yesterday.

Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan (R) during a debate yesterday in Kenosha said humans might not have caused climate change.

Virginia Sen. Mark Warner (D) and Republican challenger Ed Gillespie clashed last night over which candidate's energy policies are most beneficial for the Old Dominion, as the duo faced off in a debate dominated by questions tied to the federal investigation of a state senator's resignation.

Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor (D) continued his bid to save his Senate seat yesterday by hammering Republican challenger Tom Cotton over his vote against the farm bill, as the duo faced off in the first of two debates this week in the Senate race.

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