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The monarch butterfly population in Mexico dropped 59 percent this winter to the lowest level on record. This winter marks the third consecutive year of population decline, and drops have…

Former California Rep. Howard Berman, who once chaired the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is joining Covington & Burling LLP's public policy and lobbying shop. First elected to Congress in 1982,…

U.S. EPA has underestimated the impact of its biofuel policies on global food prices and hunger, a conservative think tank and an anti-hunger group argue in a petition filed with…

Oil industry lobbyists returned to the White House this week to argue against a rule that would slash the amount of sulfur in gasoline, prompting supporters to fear more delays…

Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio today was appointed top Republican on the Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. The panel approved his appointment at a business meeting this…

A bipartisan cadre led by Sens. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today introduced legislation that would force approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. The bill comes the…

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this morning advanced 19 public lands bills, including measures to designate more than 80,000 acres of wilderness, establish Delaware's first national park, and…

Passenger pigeons were once so abundant in the United States that their flocks would stretch a mile wide and blacken the skies. But by the early 1900s, none of the…

As the lead-off speaker at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, Virginia Attorney General and GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli scored laughs and some hearty applause when he described U.S.…

The Senate this morning rejected a Republican measure that would prevent federal agencies from hiring new nonessential employees. Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) offered an amendment to…

Skeptical appellate judges put tough questions today to both U.S. EPA and a major coal mining company as the two argued over the agency's 2007 Clean Water Act veto of a federal strip-mining permit issued by the Army Corps of Engineers for a sprawling West Virginia mine.

Mexican activists are pushing to include environmental taxes in a new tax reform bill. The environmental taxes would designate money for conservation and pollution cleanup and offer incentives for using…

Utah's Legislature passed several bills this session that would assert state control over natural resources normally regulated by the federal government. The bills would keep federal land management employees from…

Alaska's Senate Finance Committee yesterday passed a new version of an oil tax bill after some lawmakers balked at how much an earlier proposal would cost. The new measure would…

Bed bugs adapt to mitigation efforts using biological changes that make them resistant to common insecticides, a new study found. The insects are found throughout the world, but recent infestations…

The Chobani Inc. yogurt plant in upstate New York may have to reduce the amount of well water it uses after officials found it had pumped millions of gallons of…

Drinking water contamination at North Carolina's Camp Lejeune could date to 1948, five years earlier than researchers had previously indicated, a federal report says. The Agency for Toxic Substances and…

Agriculture Department Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan, a strong advocate of local and organic food, is resigning. Merrigan, who has served in the department's No. 2 position for four years, gave…

The largest rare earth minerals producer outside China has reported a $450 million loss for 2012. Much of the loss is attributed to the $258 million write-down that followed Molycorp…

Nissan Motor Co. may build its Leaf electric vehicles in a province in China, according to a Chinese government website. Nissan, Japan's second-largest automaker, may invest up to 2 billion…

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