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Two environmental groups today filed the first federal lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's decision last year to list the Gunnison sage grouse as threatened under the Endangered Species Act instead of a more restrictive endangered listing.

Environmental think tank Earth Policy Institute plans to close its doors at the end of June, after almost 15 years of operations.

Former Rep. Jim Matheson (D-Utah) is heading to K Street.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) wants the Obama administration's help in protecting public lands in southern Nevada, including Gold Butte and a desert valley that includes one of the world's largest pieces of earthen art.

Only last spring, Joe Szabo was playing a familiar role in his job as head of the Federal Railroad Administration: fending off criticism of California's high-speed rail project from congressional detractors questioning whether it would ever be built.

The Department of Agriculture blocked references to a well-known bee researcher's surprise resignation last year in documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.

TransCanada Corp. today said it had filed documents in several Nebraska counties to acquire the land necessary to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline through the state.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers last Friday quietly approved an 8-mile access road for a drilling project that would be the first to produce oil from the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.

In his first State of the Union address before a Republican-controlled Congress, President Obama received strong, partisan reaction to his climate and energy proposals. In this E&ETV Special Report, members of Congress react to the president's statements on the science of climate change, Keystone XL and U.S. energy production. Lawmakers interviewed include: Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), Rep. Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.), Rep. Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas), Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas) and Rep. Bob Latta (R-Ohio).

Judges at India's high court in Delhi have ordered the government to unblock funds belonging to Greenpeace that have been frozen since June.

Three ships the New Zealand navy caught illegally fishing in Antarctic waters got away for now, but officials have started an international push to bring the crews to justice as they seek to crack down on illegal fishing in the vast open waters of the Southern Ocean.

The California Department of Fish & Wildlife is hoping a more comprehensive laboratory analysis can identify a mysterious slime killing seabirds along the eastern edge of San Francisco Bay.

Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race organizers are considering moving starting locations for the 1,000-mile race due to a lack of snow in south-central Alaska.

A bill that would protect landowners from liability for damage caused by energy pipelines moved out of committee yesterday in the Wyoming Legislature and is expected to be heard later this week by the full House.

Incoming Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) will have to move quickly if he wants to stop a controversial new regulation to curb farmers' use of chicken manure as fertilizer.

Engineers are trying a new plan to control dust in California's Owens Valley, the site of a lake that the city of Los Angeles controversially drained decades ago, serving as inspiration for the movie "Chinatown."

The company responsible for an oil spill in a Montana river said it has located the breach in the pipeline beneath the Yellowstone River as tests found hazardous chemicals may be present.

Products seeking to win a new certification that they do not contain genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, must pass a gauntlet of tests and open their product ingredients to close scrutiny.

Six row houses in Washington, D.C.'s Ivy City neighborhood built by Habitat for Humanity this year should deliver substantial energy savings because they're so well-insulated they don't need furnaces.

Karen Hedlund, the former No. 2 leader at the Federal Railroad Administration, has been hired as director of public-private partnerships in Parsons Brinckerhoff's strategic consulting group.

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