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The Interior Department is scrambling to meet a September 2015 deadline to avert an Endangered Species Act listing for the greater sage grouse -- what some Westerners warn would be a political and economic disaster.

The White House late Friday released its latest regulatory agenda, a sweeping plan that details both short- and long-term regulatory goals for every agency in the government.

How does the Export-Import Bank of the United States help U.S. companies stay competitive in international energy markets? During today's OnPoint, Fred Hochberg, chairman and president of the Ex-Im Bank, makes the case for long-term congressional reauthorization of the institution. Hochberg also discusses a recent trip to India where renewable energy opportunities were explored.

All Rudolph would need is a siren to go with his flashing red nose if police in remote north-central Russia opt to draft crime-fighting reindeer.

Vietnam's environmental police seized more than 1,000 dead endangered sea turtles last week, an official said today.

Air pollution, largely from coal-fired power plants, cost E.U. countries up to $235 billion in 2012, the European Environment Agency said in a report published today.

Southern California residents and cities are making a pledge that's unusual in this image-obsessed place: vowing not to wash their cars to save water.

A state task force in Oregon has released a final report on how state lawmakers could prevent honeybee deaths by tightening pesticide regulations, but one member of the group said the recommended changes don't go far enough.

The unusually wet weather in recent months may be the source of increased levels of nitrate in two rivers that supply water to the Des Moines, Iowa, area.

The San Diego region did not adequately account for how future transportation projects might worsen climate change and air quality, an appeals court has ruled.

Amtrak notched a record $3.2 billion in revenue in fiscal 2014, up about 8 percent from the preceding year, while its net losses declined almost 14 percent to about $1 billion, the passenger railroad reported in a news release this morning. The bulk of the growth came from ticket sales and other "passenger related" revenue, which rose to $2.5 billion, a 6 percent increase from 2013. Up almost 15 percent were revenues from an amalgam of other sources such as leases and advertising, which jumped to about $545 million.

U.S. agricultural seed companies and growers are reeling as Beijing takes longer than expected to approve new varieties of genetically modified crops amid rising public opposition in China.

The future of cellulosic nanotechnology -- the sourcing of nanomaterials from tree matter -- is on the road to becoming a multimillion-dollar industry if certain key hurdles are removed.

Louisiana officials have identified the man who died in an oil platform explosion in the Gulf of Mexico last week.

After three years of refusing to do so, Texas' Commission on Environmental Quality took over greenhouse gas permitting from federal authorities this month.

China must invest $145 billion per year in technologies to increase its use of renewable energy to meet the goals laid out in the recent U.S.-China climate deal, according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency.

Debate is heating up after environmentalists sued the federal government in a bid to stop BP PLC oil spill payments from being used to rebuild an Alabama hotel that was destroyed well before the company's drilling rig leaked into the Gulf of Mexico.

A southern Oregon man admitted to providing false aircraft weight figures to the Forest Service to win a firefighting contract that resulted in a helicopter crash that killed nine people in 2008.

A Kentucky state judge yesterday tossed a proposed $310,000 settlement between regulators and a coal mining company, saying it was "not fair, reasonable or in the public interest."

The National Review and a conservative think tank argued in court today that climate scientist Michael Mann's defamation lawsuit against them should be dismissed.

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