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State legislators from New England states want to form a multistate pact to fight ocean acidity on the East Coast, but the effort faces a slew of procedural hurdles.

The National Park Service is launching its third-ever major national campaign to attract a new, more diverse generation of visitors and to raise funds to pay for $11 billion in backlogged maintenance.

The Obama administration released its first status report last week on the National Ocean Policy, asserting that agencies have completed one-third of the plan's objectives.

Scientists from the National Wildlife Federation during a trip to the Gulf of Mexico earlier this month documented a 25,000-pound tar mat, a barrier island devoid of its usual mangroves and a mother dolphin trying to resuscitate her dead infant.

The Interior Department on Friday announced an agreement with Oregon landowners that could lead to the conservation of 2.3 million acres of sage grouse habitat and shield ranchers from regulations if the bird is eventually listed under the Endangered Species Act.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) pledged in 2010 to make the state a wind superpower by harnessing the strong ocean breezes off Atlantic City.

A leading environmental advocate today urged Sen. Elizabeth Warren to challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The White House on Friday said it would make up to $38 million in grant funding available in the coming month as a "down payment" in aid to communities hit by the coal mining downturn.

Everybody implicated in a scheme to heat up the room during an infamous Senate climate change hearing in the 1980s acknowledged that rumors of windows left open and air conditioning manipulation were fiction.

Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D) today announced her bid to take on Sen. Mark Kirk (R), whose Illinois Senate seat is a top target for Democrats in the 2016 cycle.

A Republican lawmaker who voted for his party's budget plan has protested its targeting of federal employees.

Federal and state agencies in Washington state's rugged North Cascades are racing to save the iconic grizzly bear before the 600-pound behemoths disappear.

Embattled Chemical Safety Board Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso resigned under pressure last week, but a bipartisan group of House lawmakers say their probe of the agency is going to continue.

A former top climate official who was entangled in investigations surrounding U.S. EPA's fake spy has left her post at the agency.

Peter Glaser came to Washington in the late 1970s to fight poverty, not environmental regulations. The Clean Air Act super-lawyer was fresh from Middlebury College with a bachelor's degree in political science and working for the poor. "I was actually a community organizer, just like Barack Obama," Glaser said in an interview. "We sort of went in different directions over the years." Glaser is now a force for the coal and utility industries in the legal wars over U.S. EPA air rules, advising states to “just say no” to the Obama administration’s draft regs for curbing greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector.

With U.S. EPA expected to release a federal implementation plan for Clean Power Plan compliance this summer, how much flexibility does the "just say no" option buy states? During today's OnPoint, Scott Segal, a partner at Bracewell & Giuliani and director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, discusses the politics of "just say no." He also explains why he believes a reliability safety valve is only part of the solution to ensuring reliability under the power plan.

China is continuing its environmental crackdown, closing water-wasting golf courses and limiting motorists in Beijing on heavy pollution days.

New E.U. rules are set to take effect that require safer processes for breaking up old ships.

Many Americans prefer single-stream recycling because it is simpler to not separate different types of recyclables, but ultimately, the process can make it harder to dispose of the items.

A coalition of chemical safety and public health groups filed a petition today asking the Consumer Product Safety Commission to ban a broad class of flame retardants from most household products, saying the chemicals are harmful to human health and serve little purpose.

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