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Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said yesterday India will pass new comprehensive climate legislation in the next session of Parliament.

LIMA, Peru -- By the time China's carbon dioxide emissions stop rising in 2030, they will be more than twice what U.S. emissions were at their zenith, according to an analysis released today on the sidelines of U.N. climate talks here.

A lawsuit filed in 2011 by a Georgia family is among the few alleging that exposure to benzene from living near one of the nation's 1,500 bulk-oil terminals caused leukemia.

The Supreme Court has denied a request from a children's group to force federal agencies to do more to address climate change.

The Supreme Court won't review BP PLC's bid to halt liability payments to businesses and landowners that the company says were not harmed by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Obama administration signaled Friday that it will ask the Supreme Court to review a controversial court ruling that left a high-profile federal energy efficiency program in disarray earlier this year.

As more people acquire forestland around the country, researchers fear improper management techniques will imperil the nation's trees.

Researchers believe they might have found the Achilles' heel of a previously unstoppable invasive weed threatening to destroy sagebrush habitat across the West, a cornerstone of the controversy surrounding the greater sage grouse.

Local businesses and politicians in western Wyoming are balking at the National Park Service's proposal to raise entrance fees in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.

Almost a half-century after "coho fever" gripped the Great Lakes, the grand experiment of introducing Pacific salmon looks to be at an end, but, unexpectedly, native species are making a comeback.

This November was the coldest since 2000 in the contiguous United States, with more land covered in snow than ever recorded, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

SALIDA, Colo. -- The proposal to designate a national monument in a picturesque south-central Colorado canyon straddling the Arkansas River was strongly supported by residents, business owners and conservation groups here during a public hearing Saturday afternoon that was attended by two senior Obama administration officials.

The longtime Republican staff director for the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's Water Resources and Environment Subpanel, who has had a hand in every Water Resources Development Act since 1990, is stepping down, the committee announced today.

Rep. Jeff Denham and other Republicans in California's House delegation have mounted a final effort to block the use of federal funding for their state's high-speed rail project this fiscal year.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is scheduled to vote on Federal Energy Regulatory Commission nominee Colette Honorable -- a candidate who appears to have strong bipartisan backing -- on Wednesday.

An American Indian tribe reliant on coal said Friday it wants an exemption from the Obama administration's climate plan or help replacing lost jobs and revenue.

Some of the nation's largest energy firms have formed tight relationships with Republican attorneys general, using the offices to bring credibility to industry advocacy against Obama administration pollution rules.

A former contractor who worked on the Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement's forthcoming stream protection rule is touting his experience as evidence of the Obama administration's so-called war on coal.

DETROIT -- The Motor City is famous for political corruption, a historic bankruptcy, crime and urban blight. It's home for a new type of tourism, dubbed "ruin porn," in which gawkers are shepherded from one neighborhood of charred, abandoned buildings to another.

A majority on the Supreme Court appeared to support the Obama administration's contention that Congress didn't delegate too much authority to Amtrak for drafting standards that apply to the entire rail industry.

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