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The Supreme Court today sided with a former air marshal who blew the whistle on the Department of Homeland Security's decision to stop deploying marshals on some commercial flights after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

What's the best way to drill for oil in a mostly untouched Alaskan tundra -- home to migrating caribou, abundant waterfowl, and Native hunting and fishing grounds? It depends on which federal agency is asked. The Bureau of Land Management, the Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. EPA and the Fish and Wildlife Service are at odds over ConocoPhillips Co.'s bid to become the first oil producer in the 22.5-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve.

With climate change playing a central role in President Obama's first State of the Union address before a Republican-controlled Congress, how will the president's framing of the issue impact the future of legislative and legal action on the Clean Power Plan? During today's OnPoint, Kevin Book, managing director at ClearView Energy Partners, discusses the future of the "all of the above" energy strategy as the Obama administration pushes forward with its proposed action on climate change.

A novel written by an environmental regulator has gone viral in China with its plot of a burglar whose break-ins are shielded from view by the country's blanket of pollution.

A former hero of Zimbabwe's land reform program is homeless after police, acting on behalf of President Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace, destroyed thatch dwellings on a farm that poor blacks had seized from white landowners in 2000.

South African officials declared 2014 the worst-ever year for rhino poaching with a record 1,215 rhinos killed for their horns.

Members of the Republican-controlled West Virginia Senate voted yesterday to repeal the state's alternative energy portfolio standards.

New Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) moved quickly yesterday to block several new regulations proposed by former Gov. Martin O'Malley (D), including a measure to curb poultry farmers' use of chicken manure on their fields.

Miners in Peru sift through dirt beneath the Madre de Dios River in search of gold but release mercury in the process, scientists say.

Current uses of bisphenol A, or BPA, are unlikely to present a health risk to consumers, the European Food Safety Authority said in a new report.

A thick layer of ice on the Yellowstone River is hampering cleanup efforts after a ruptured pipeline spilled roughly 50,000 gallons of oil, much of it into the river, contaminating an eastern Montana town's drinking water supply.

A chemical sheen reported on the Ohio River near Louisville, Ky., isn't coming from a nearby Valero Energy Corp. refinery, company officials say.

Environmental health groups slammed U.S. EPA's registration of a new pesticide the agency says could replace more harmful chemicals, including a class of pest control linked to widespread bee deaths.

Electric car dealers have been cutting prices in an effort to help the alternative vehicles compete in a traditional market with plunging fuel costs.

Almost 3 million gallons of salt water generated by oil drilling have spilled from a pipeline in North Dakota, officials said yesterday.

Federal judges have declined to reconsider their ruling against Marine families suffering health effects from groundwater contamination at a North Carolina base, setting the stage for a potential Supreme Court appeal.

Troubling changes are coming to the bottom of Lake Tahoe, according to researchers studying the tiny invertebrates living in the cold depths of the nation's second-deepest lake.

In an effort to crack down on illegal fishing, scientists have launched a new satellite system that monitors two critical fishing areas that lack adequate surveillance.

Thirteen commercial fishermen from North Carolina and Georgia were charged yesterday with illegally catching 90,000 pounds of Atlantic striped bass.

The Interior Department today announced the release of an environmental assessment of a plan to lease up to 300,000 acres off the coast of North Carolina for the construction of offshore wind farms.

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