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The Forest Service has finalized a new plan designed to protect a subpopulation of greater sage grouse in and around the largest national forest in the continental United States. The agency says the plan balances multiple uses of public lands while conserving and restoring the imperiled bird's dwindling habitat.

Toledo, Ohio, Mayor Michael Collins died Friday after suffering a cardiac arrest while monitoring city streets during a snowstorm last week.

Environmental activists involved in protests delaying massive shipments of oil refinery equipment bound for the Canadian oil sands have been contacted in the last several months by FBI agents.

A new online video by the group NextGen Climate, backed by billionaire activist Tom Steyer, aims to mobilize opponents of the Keystone XL oil pipeline into pressing President Obama to reject it.

The United States needs a bipartisan, long-term innovation strategy including a significant boost in spending and tax incentives if it is to compete on the global stage, according to a new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.

A bipartisan group of 32 senators today pressed U.S. EPA to take action on long-delayed renewable fuel mandates to boost biodiesel producers.

The Federal Transit Administration currently can apportion less than three-quarters of its $11 billion budget for fiscal 2015 because a short-term authorization law runs out in May, the agency said in a Federal Register notice published today.

Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.), speaking to the country's largest federal worker union today, said Congress needs to do away with the looming budget cuts known as sequestration.

CLIFF, N.M. -- M.H. Dutch Salmon stood on a recent morning on the Iron Bridge, the distinctive red structure that spans the Gila River here, and recalled his 220-mile journey along the waterway more than three decades ago.

The left-leaning Center for American Progress is teaming up with high-profile Democratic politicians on a plan to generate funding to help Appalachian communities struggling from the coal market downturn.

A Dallas-based company has unveiled plans to build the nation's first private, temporary storage site for spent reactor fuel in the arid western corner of Texas with hopes that the Department of Energy will be its No. 1 customer.

As Attorney General Eric Holder prepares to leave the Obama administration, environmental attorneys are generally applauding his efforts to protect public health and natural resources. Holder's Department of Justice successfully defended U.S. EPA's first climate rules at the Supreme Court and produced major Clean Air Act victories in federal appeals courts. He has also secured record-setting settlements stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. But criminal environmental enforcement prosecutions have lagged, critics say, and how much action the department has taken to support Holder's lofty environmental justice rhetoric remains open to interpretation.

As Congress debates the future of the renewable fuel standard and biofuels continue to face political hurdles, the World Resources Institute's latest report on bioenergy production makes the case against using land and crops for bioenergy and contends biofuels are not helping to curb climate change. During today's OnPoint, Timothy Searchinger, a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute and lead author of the report, discusses the research and the impact he believes it should have on policy discussions.

Feral cats and foxes brought to Australia by European settlers more than 200 years ago are causing the extinction of more than 10 percent of the country's land mammal species, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Zimbabwe's forests are being cleared at a record pace to make room for tobacco cultivation, and conservationists fear the country will be depleted of all forests in the coming decades if deforestation isn't slowed.

Conservationists are pushing the British government to create the world's largest protected marine reserve.

Spain has committed to increasing its renewable energy capacity over the next five years, according to reports.

South Africa today said it has commissioned an expert panel to examine the option of legalizing trade in rhino horn after record-setting poaching last year.

Members of China's environment ministry have been taking bribes in exchange for favorable pollution assessments of factories, the country's main anti-corruption body has found.

A California-area water manager is facing a possible suspension after he urinated in a public reservoir.

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