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Enbridge Inc. has agreed to pay abutters of a 2010 Michigan oil spill $6.8 million to settle a class-action lawsuit.

Talks underway about a potential solution to avoid the unsuspecting birds crashing into the clear glass roof atop the Minnesota Vikings' new stadium under construction in downtown Minneapolis have given avian advocates some hope.

Enough plastic to fill almost 40,000 garbage trucks is floating in the world's oceans, according to a new study.

Oregon is selling 92,000 acres of coastal forestland south of Eugene to ensure revenue for public schools after pressure from environmentalists restricted timber sales.

A decade of low water levels in the Great Lakes has finally ended with two unusually wet years in a row.

A group of motorists and their insurance companies have agreed to pay the National Park Service $150,000 to cover damage caused three years ago when they drove across more than 2 miles of sensitive wind-tidal flats at Padre Island National Seashore in Texas.

The Agriculture Department's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has found that the use of parasitic wasps to combat invasive Asian citrus psyllids presents no significant impacts, clearing a path for approval to use the wasps as a biological pest control.

The world's oceans could face a shuffling of fish communities as the climate warms and they move with the changing water temperatures, if a recent study is any indication.

DENVER -- Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) yesterday unveiled the first draft of a new state plan that could herald $20 billion in water projects as the Centennial State looks to balance increasing population growth with an expected water shortage in coming decades.

Spurred by a New York Times description of Sen. James Inhofe (R), Bill Nye and 47 other scientists are asking the media to replace the term "climate skeptics" with "climate deniers."

Tribe members and legal experts are still reeling from a comment made by Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) on Friday during a discussion about a controversial Arizona land deal.

Former Indiana Rep. David McIntosh (R) will take the helm as the Club for Growth's new president, the conservative group announced today.

David Hayes, who was deputy Interior secretary under the Obama and Clinton administrations, has joined the left-leaning Center for American Progress.

The Natural Resources Defense Council is swinging back as a Senate Republican continues to accuse the group of behind-the-scenes "collusion" with the Obama administration.

Deep in the $1 trillion spending bill to keep the government running is a provision aimed at helping miners whose jobs were lost in the market downturn.

House lawmakers quickly approved a bill to reauthorize the Department of Homeland Security's Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards program today, granting their final approval to the bill and sending it to President Obama hours before lawmakers are due to leave town.

The House this morning approved legislation by voice vote to scrap Bureau of Land Management leases for sand-and-gravel mining north of Los Angeles.

Congressional appropriators offer tempered support for President Obama's network of manufacturing innovation institutes in the $1 trillion spending bill aimed at keeping the government open through the rest of fiscal 2015.

The Senate this morning voted 85-14 to advance a major package of parks, wilderness and land development bills as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, setting up a final vote on the $585 billion measure no later than tomorrow.

The House this afternoon failed to pass a package of three bills to permanently extend tax incentives for charitable giving, including one to bolster land conservation, marking a significant defeat for conservationists and landowners.

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