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The quest for oil in Africa has turned violent in the Democratic Republic of Congo as environmentalists fight to save national parks from companies champing at the bit to drill there.

In an effort to allow E.U. countries the ability to ban certain genetically modified organisms, Germany is pushing the European Commission to act on the issue ahead of the 2015 harvest.

Some Maryland churches that have agreed to take on environmental projects and preach about green issues are receiving a break from the state's stormwater remediation fee.

Old copies of an "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" video game that were excavated from a New Mexico landfill sold for thousands of dollars on eBay this weekend.

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) faces a key deadline this week to complete rules to help cut the use of chicken manure that are intended to restore the Chesapeake Bay.

An Oregon logging town is searching for a second act.

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In an effort to limit dust storms from Owens Valley in California, Los Angeles will use a new technique to minimize dust on the dry bed of Owens Lake.

Iowa regulators are considering restricting the use of the Jordan aquifer, which provides drinking water to roughly 500,000 Iowans.

The Department of Energy has paid more than its fair share when it comes to sharing national laboratory employees with other agencies.

An office in the Department of Energy was forced to lay off or require leave for hundreds of contractor employees during the 2013 government shutdown.

The Interior Department has approved the first transmission line in federal waters to serve an offshore wind farm.

Economic models tend to overestimate the greenhouse gas effects of indirect land-use change, according to a new study by Iowa State University researchers that boosts the ethanol industry's arguments against ILUC estimates.

A task force convened by President Obama will issue recommendations today to help local communities plan and develop projects to increase resilience to climate change-related hazards.

Federal prosecutors and lawyers for Lawrence Cullari, a former Federal Highway Administration official accused of fraud and making false statements, have another two months to work out a plea bargain under an order issued last week by U.S. Magistrate Judge James Clark of New Jersey.

BP PLC on Friday asked a federal judge to limit the maximum penalty it could face for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to about $12 billion.

The Supreme Court today left in place an appeals court ruling that required the Interior Department to conduct a more extensive review of how California water contracts would affect threatened delta smelt before renewing them.

A relatively unknown fungus that has devastated snake populations across many states has made its way into Wisconsin.

The Second International Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle Symposium was set for next year's 30th anniversary of the first meeting on Texas' official sea turtle, but disturbing trends in the wake of the 2010 BP PLC oil spill prompted organizers to hold the event a year early.

More than 22,000 species are threatened with extinction, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature said.

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