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California utility Pacific Gas & Electric admitted to new violations of state communications rules yesterday and released a new batch of emails revealing back-channel lobbying between executives and state officials.

Some of Miami Beach's priciest oceanside condominiums are being constructed in part to provide the city with tax money to protect its vulnerable coastline from flooding.

Global warming could have fatal consequences for chinook salmon, according to a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Federal judges today rejected an appeal by 101 environmental groups to force U.S. EPA to regulate lead in hunting bullets because the discarded shot poses a risk to wildlife.

Koalas are headed for extinction and the Australian government doesn't have a strategy to save the species, said conservationists.

Environmental studies of Yellowstone National Park's bison could increase buffaloes' room to roam.

More than half a million square miles of land around the world has been protected since 2012, according to a report by the United Nations Environment Program.

Hunting and trapping wolves in the Great Lakes region does not endanger the survival of the species, said wolf experts.

Samuel Colt's 19th-century gun factory in Connecticut became a national park Friday, but its legacy, Colt's Manufacturing Co., did not partake in the celebration.

A Kenyan businessman suspected of ivory trafficking was arrested today by police in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam.

A juvenile confessed to shooting a bottlenose dolphin with a hunting bow in Florida waters, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The National Marine Fisheries Service has decided not to list the pinto abalone under the Endangered Species Act, according to an upcoming Federal Register notice.

The Fish and Wildlife Service is giving federal and state agencies, tribes, industry, and conservation partners an additional two weeks to document steps they're taking to protect the greater sage grouse.

As a painful reckoning sets in throughout the West, where the Colorado River Basin is in its 15th straight year of drought, desperate water managers are welcoming a new cloud-seeding study as rare good news.

Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the incoming chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, today named Frederick Hill as the panel's GOP communications director and announced other staff changes to his Capitol Hill team.

House Natural Resources Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) said he's looking forward to fewer cross-country flights and more time with family and friends in the "real Washington" when he retires next month.

In the wake of November's midterm elections, a handful of senators aimed to get ahead of the curve for the 2016 cycle by rolling out news of their re-election bids. But Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo (R) had beaten even those early birds to the punch: He announced his next campaign back in August.