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A former Shell Pipeline Co. LP employee pleaded guilty yesterday to failing to conduct required inspections of a pipeline in Wisconsin that leaked 9,000 gallons of jet fuel and caused a more than $19 million cleanup.

Two of the world's best rock climbers are roughly halfway up the impossible: Yosemite National Park's "Dawn Wall."

The new chairman of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission isn't looking to make drastic changes when it comes to policies and management practices in the state.

Federal and state wildlife officials have officially granted pack status to an Oregon wolf famous for its travels.

Selling or buying most items made from elephant tusk or rhinoceros horn would be illegal in California under legislation offered yesterday, a bill aimed at shrinking the state's role as a hub of illegal ivory trade.

The Arizona Game and Fish Department has announced plans to sue the Obama administration over the Fish and Wildlife Service's decades-old Mexican wolf recovery plan, arguing -- as environmentalists have done recently -- that the 1982 plan is so outdated that it no longer provides an adequate framework to guide the recovery effort.

The Forest Service has approved a gravel mining project on 25 acres less than a mile from the western North Dakota ranch where a young Theodore Roosevelt developed the conservation ethic that later earned him the title "conservationist president."

Ex-Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) has found a new home on K Street.

A conservative advocacy group supportive of industry has launched a "free market" congressional scorecard to promote energy legislation like the Keystone XL pipeline bill being debated on Capitol Hill this week.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) today called a long-term highway bill a top "priority" for the new Congress but said that a federal gas tax increase is unlikely to pass the Republican-controlled House and Senate.

Two months after fishery managers effectively shut down the Northeastern cod fishery, Massachusetts Democratic Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren are asking the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to defend the decision's scientific backing.

U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy's first pitch at Fenway Park last year wasn't as simple as stepping to the mound, throwing the ball and waving to the crowd as she left the baseball diamond.

The looming departure of President Obama's front man on climate issues is sparking speculation in energy circles.

California Sen. Barbara Boxer, the top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee and a key player on climate issues, announced today that she will retire at the end of the 114th Congress rather than seek re-election to a fifth term, ending her tenure on Capitol Hill after more than 30 years.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this morning cleared legislation on a 13-9 vote to approve the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada.

How will U.S. EPA's move to delay its final power plant standards affect the future of the regulations? On today's The Cutting Edge, Greenwire reporter Jean Chemnick discusses the political and legal maneuvering behind the delay. She also talks about the agency's strategy in announcing plans to release a model rule for state compliance with the Clean Power Plan.

A Swedish court has struck down a controversial wolf hunt that was set to begin today.

The creation of the Interoceanic Canal could be fatal to fish in Lake Nicaragua, according to an independent international panel of experts.

The pet policy at a downtown San Diego building is getting updated after the apologetic owner of a 5.5-foot Colombian rainbow boa constrictor came forward to claim his snake that was plunged out of a downstairs office toilet.

Neighborhood disputes are unfolding across Indiana as the state's ever-growing agricultural industry encroaches on more populated areas.

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