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About 120 problem mustangs that have destroyed private property and impregnated domestic mares near the Nevada-Utah border will be rounded up, according to the Bureau of Land Management.

The Fish and Wildlife Service yesterday granted protections to two Great Plains butterflies.

Federal judges today struggled with a bid by more than 100 environmental and conservation groups to force U.S. EPA to ban lead hunting bullets.

In the wake of a poll earlier this month that suggested South Dakota's Senate seat might not be the easy victory Republicans have long expected, a flood of campaign dollars has flown into the Mount Rushmore State.

New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D) and Republican challenger Scott Brown largely avoided discussion of energy policy or climate change in their second televised debate last night.

At a debate last week, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) ticked off the reasons why he thinks the state is in better economic shape than it was when he took office in 2011.

Climate change and the environment aren't likely to be the dominant factors swaying midterm races across the country next month.

Alton Coal Development LLC, a company hoping to secure government coal to extend mining operations in Utah, has tapped a former Capitol Hill aide to lobby on the company's behalf.

Senate Republicans yesterday gave Obama administration officials an earful over a controversial water proposal and an interpretive rule for agriculture that came out with it.

More than a dozen companies that drill for oil but do not refine it have banded together to encourage Congress and the Obama administration to allow more oil overseas.

U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy expressed annoyance today with both sides in the debate over her agency's landmark rule proposal for curbing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

U.S. EPA has pushed to dismiss a lawsuit over senior officials' text messages after disclosing that the records have not been kept.

Heather Zichal eloped last month in Croatia, where she also biked about 30 miles per day, went sailing and chatted up winemakers about global warming's toll on their industry.

IRVINE, Ky. -- When Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes' campaign bus pulled into the parking lot of a community meeting room here the other day, members of her family were along for the ride.

European heads of state agreed last night to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent from 1990 levels by 2030, at a cost of €38 billion ($48 billion) per year, in the European Union's most ambitious climate goals to date.

Federal appellate judges greenlighted yesterday U.S. EPA's implementation of a program to curb air pollution that drifts between states. The order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit comes after the Supreme Court upheld many aspects of the program in April, reversing a decision by the D.C. Circuit.

With several states taking steps to address methane emissions from oil and natural gas systems, is a federal policy on methane needed? During today's OnPoint, Mark Brownstein, associate vice president and chief counsel of the U.S. Energy and Climate Program at the Environmental Defense Fund, explains why he believes U.S. EPA should move to regulate methane emissions under the Clean Air Act, despite a reported drop in emissions between 2012 and 2013.

Residents in the town of Pahoa, Hawaii, are preparing to evacuate as lava from the Kilauea volcano nears.

A new Iowa regulation meant to add more inspections of livestock farms and provide stricter enforcement when manure spills enter waterways took effect last week.

After years of lagging behind the rest of the country in cleaning up its waterways, Southern California is planning a face-lift for the cement-lined stretch of the Santa Ana River running through Orange County.

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