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Commissioners in El Paso County, Colo., unanimously approved a wind farm yesterday just minutes before midnight, nearly 15 hours after beginning a meeting on the controversial project.

California regulators have allowed oil companies to inject production fluids or waste into federally protected aquifers more than 2,500 times, records show.

Shane Griffin turned writing about mountain lions in fiction into pressing lawmakers to write the big cats into the Iowa Code.

Federal officials are hearing calls to designate perhaps the largest adobe office building in the United States as the third national monument established in New Mexico in as many years.

Washington state, the source of more than half the orcas taken into captivity, is considering legislation banning the increasingly controversial killer whale entertainment industry.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation yesterday to curb the mistreatment of farm animals at federal research facilities, including a U.S. Department of Agriculture site in Nebraska that has been the focus of recent scrutiny.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill yesterday to combat illegal fishing, marking the first of what could be several proposals to address a priority of the Obama administration.

The Obama administration is open to compromise over its plan to raise more transportation funding by taxing corporate earnings held overseas, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew suggested at a Senate Finance Committee hearing yesterday.

As California's historic drought worsens, the state is asking some of its longest-running water users to verify their right to take water from streams.

The Senate's top appropriator is questioning the legality of a new flood risk standard that President Obama unveiled last week to make federal construction investments resilient to rising seas and stronger storms.

The dangers posed by climate change rank among the threats posed by weapons of mass destruction, infectious disease outbreaks and catastrophic attacks on the United States, according to a new White House assessment of the most pressing global risks.

Wanted: Nonsmoking, active adults to inhale nitrogen dioxide and ozone during workouts. It’s one of several U.S. EPA studies aimed at testing how dirty air affects human health. The maligned program has been blasted by critics for exposing people to harmful pollutants. But EPA researchers are fighting back to defend their work.

The Church of England may sell its stake in a British mining firm whose operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could be endangering gorillas in Virunga National Park.

A chemical plant exploded and caught fire in eastern Ukraine this morning near the city of Donetsk in what separatists said was an attack by government forces.

Proposed European Commission regulations could tighten standards for energy efficiency in buildings, among other measures.

Maryland lawmakers are considering banning the use of synthetic microbeads in personal hygiene products.

Legal scholars behind a new report on Utah's quest to take over the state's 31 million acres of federal lands found the effort would actually reduce public access and require a surge in mining and oil and gas drilling to cover the costs of land management.

California lawmakers are preparing to introduce tomorrow a package of bills to fulfill Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) climate change objectives, formally launching debate expected to last months.

U.S. EPA will complete a feasibility study after finding elevated potential for health risks at a Delaware Superfund site, including for construction workers tasked with cleaning up the area.

Southern California officials are blaming the region's drought on its inability to meet a 2015 deadline to clean soot from the air.

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