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A California community has abandoned extermination as a solution for controlling coyote populations blamed for killing livestock and pets as conservationists spar with ranchers, pet owners and others over the humaneness of killing practices nationwide.

Nicole Abeln has become a huge turtle fan after taking in more than 200 baby turtles seized by Fish and Wildlife Service inspectors at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in September illegally making their way to China stuffed in a suitcase.

Seabirds steer clear of offshore wind turbines, according to a new study conducted by British researchers on behalf of the Scottish government.

The second consecutive week of heavy rains in California did not solve the state's entrenched drought, but it did made a major dent in the hardest-hit parts of the state, according to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor report released this morning.

A federal judge has upheld the National Marine Fisheries Service's management of the Atlantic sea scallop fishery, rejecting Oceana's claims that the agency did not adequately consider the fishery's impacts on sea turtles.

Ninth in a series on energy and environment staffers worth watching in 2015.

More than 30 House Democrats are urging Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to cancel oil and gas leases issued by the George W. Bush administration to drill in Alaska's Chukchi Sea, arguing that a new environmental review shows increased risks of oil spills.

The new top GOP watchdog is already gearing up to launch probes into environmental and energy agencies next year.

Republicans boycotted a Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee hearing yesterday on the federal ozone standard, calling it little more than a "last-stand press conference."

A lawmaker who has long pushed legislation to permanently protect the Boulder-White Clouds region of central Idaho said yesterday that he plans to give it one last try in 2015.

The Department of Energy's deputy assistant secretary for clean coal defended the Obama administration's efforts to promote carbon capture and sequestration technology as a means of keeping coal a viable U.S. energy source.

The Interior Department yesterday announced a new scientific integrity policy that officials say will better protect the agency against misconduct.

The Obama administration is advancing a 300-mile-long electricity transmission line project that it says is a priority for upgrading an aging and inadequate electrical grid in the Pacific Northwest but that carries concerns about potential impacts to sensitive wildlife and a Navy weapons testing center.

A longtime energy aide to Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) who spearheaded the state's climate change initiatives will become the new director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the agency that oversees oil and gas and renewable energy development on roughly 1.7 billion acres of federal waters.

Children born to mothers exposed to high levels of fine particulate pollution during pregnancy have a higher chance of being diagnosed with autism, according to a new study led by Harvard University.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- The Western Watersheds Project started its fight against grazing on public lands in 1993 by brandishing briefcases stuffed with cash at public hearings on lease sales. But the nonprofit has taken its public relations campaign against politically wired ranchers to the courts, becoming one of the country's most litigious environmental groups. The group has scored big legal victories that have forced significant changes in how federal and state agencies manage grazing permits. And it's made plenty of enemies.

With the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission slated to hold a series of technical conferences on the Clean Power Plan early next year, how will the addition of Colette Honorable to the commission impact the reliability debate on the rule? On today's The Cutting Edge, Greenwire reporter Hannah Northey previews the dynamic year ahead for FERC. She also explains how Chris Smith's confirmation to the Department of Energy will influence the liquefied natural gas exports discussion.

A new project could make Kenya home to one of Africa's largest wind energy sites.

Sweden's environment ministry nearly doubled fees yesterday for nuclear power plants to offset decommissioning costs.

Citing concerns about local farmers, the Hawaii County Council voted yesterday to appeal a federal judge's ruling about genetically modified crops on the island.

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