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Theme park executive Joel Manby was named SeaWorld's new chief executive yesterday, joining a company trying to resurrect its image amid declining attendance and falling stock prices in the wake of the 2013 documentary "Blackfish."

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official said yesterday that the agency and the federal government need more millennials working for them to diversify decisionmaking.

U.S. EPA is beginning to sketch out its next five years of environmental justice work.

Exxon Mobil Corp. has finished $1.3 million in environmental projects that were required as part of a settlement following a 2011 pipeline break that leaked 63,000 gallons of oil into Montana's Yellowstone River.

The director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory announced yesterday he will retire at the end of September.

Barton Bibler, an employee at Florida's Department of Environmental Protection, was reprimanded for using the words "climate change" during a Florida Coastal Managers Forum meeting in late February, according to a complaint against the state.

Climate change is as much a threat to national security as terrorism, according to national security officials.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should offer U.S. EPA a substantive proposal for ensuring the Clean Power Plan does not harm grid reliability, Commissioner Philip Moeller said yesterday.

A federal judge approved settlements for 78 World Trade Center cleanup workers who said they developed respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses while working in buildings near the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks

Oil industry groups this week sued U.S. EPA for failing to establish annual biofuel mandates under the renewable fuel standard program.

A coalition of ethanol producers today sought to convince a federal appeals court that U.S. EPA's rules for curbing sulfur in gasoline are "logically impossible to satisfy."

Michigan's Department of Natural Resources will approve the state's sale of more than 8,800 acres of public land to a Canadian mining company, according to department Director Keith Creagh.

The Obama administration today announced a proposal to reclassify growing populations of green sea turtles off the coasts of Florida and western Mexico as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, a less restrictive designation than their current endangered status.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration hopes to expand the role of aquaculture in the nation's seafood supply, asking Congress for money to streamline regulations and increase the number of finfish farms in federal waters.

Environmentalists are more likely to be sensitive to the suffering of others, a new study has found.

The Forest Service has won the dubious "Black Hole Award" from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Former New York Times reporter Matthew Wald is joining the Nuclear Energy Institute next month to serve as senior director of policy analysis and strategic planning.

A handful of California congressional members are weighing a Senate run that could boost their political status or end it altogether.

Two Democratic senators yesterday reintroduced a bill that would require manufacturers to put new warning labels on food packaging that contains a controversial plasticizer and would commission a new safety study of the chemical.

A bipartisan House bill introduced this week would promote conservation of private forestlands by reducing administrative burdens for states and easing concerns from landowners and philanthropists.

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