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A hummingbird rescued from a Minnesota bird feeder is enjoying the warm Texas weather after migrating in style aboard a private jet this weekend.

A new analysis has found $11 million worth of protected animals and animal products -- from expensive rhino horn cups to a "toilet-trained" gorilla -- for sale online.

A deal between the European Union, Norway and the Faroe Islands has cut catch limits for mackerel in the north and west Atlantic by 25 percent.

Four years after BP PLC's Macondo well blew out, prompting the nation's largest oil spill, a new documentary explores the lingering impacts to the Gulf of Mexico region.

The Bureau of Land Management has canceled a permit that would allow a hunting derby targeting predators -- including wolves -- to take place on 3.1 million acres of its land in central Idaho, environmental groups said today.

An Alaska federal judge yesterday issued a preliminary injunction against U.S. EPA finalizing any limits on the controversial Pebble gold and copper mining project in Alaska.

Measure 92, an Oregon ballot initiative that would require food manufacturers to put labels on products with genetically engineered ingredients, could be up for a recount next week, pending official certification from the Oregon secretary of state.

The wind industry is citing results from a poll it commissioned to argue voters want Congress to extend the production tax credit before the end of this year as opponents continue to argue the incentive is too costly.

The majority of Americans want stricter standards for smog-forming pollutants, according to a new poll released today by public health groups.

A pair of prominent conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit yesterday seeking to force the Bureau of Land Management to conduct new scrutiny of its coal leasing program.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a confirmation hearing for Colette Honorable, President Obama's nominee to join the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, on Dec. 4.

U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan tramples states' authority over their own power sectors, would drive up costs and is based on unsound science, outgoing Senate Environment and Public Works Committee ranking member David Vitter (R-La.) argued in comments submitted to the agency today.

NEW YORK -- Longtime activist Allen Hershkowitz has resigned from the Natural Resources Defense Council to lead a nonprofit focused on "greening" major sports leagues.

Under a controversial plan that would give Mexican wolves more room to roam but make it easier for people to kill them, the Fish and Wildlife Service today tripled the population target for the experimental recovery effort and took steps to protect herds of elk and other large animals from the predators.

Republicans in both chambers of Congress want grid overseers to publicly meet with U.S. EPA, the Energy Department, state regulators and power companies to discuss grid reliability concerns and explain what they say is a failure to coordinate implementation of EPA's proposal to cut carbon emissions.

The Army Corps of Engineers for decades took an expansive view of wetlands protection, using the Constitution's Commerce Clause to claim a federal interest in any marsh, swamp or bog used by migrating birds. But the Supreme Court ended the so-called Migratory Bird Rule in 2001's Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) v. Army Corps of Engineers, and the corps scrambled for a legal life preserver. The agency fell back on a concept first instituted in 1977, claiming authority over wetlands "adjacent" to navigable waterways. But the meaning of "adjacent" is itself controversial and has become a key point of debate in the wake of the Obama administration's regulatory proposal to extend automatic protection to more streams and wetlands under the 1972 Clean Water Act.

Tigers released by Vladimir Putin that crossed the border into northeastern China are leaving farmers nervous with 15 goats dead and three more missing.

A coal mine explosion killed 26 workers in northeastern China today.

Environmental justice will be a new priority for state agencies, according to an executive order signed by outgoing Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) yesterday.

New Mexico regulators plan to notify the Interior Department that the state wants to use federal funds to build a diversion and storage system on the Gila River, which could take decades to complete and cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

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