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Officials at an Illinois wildlife preserve say a bison calf born there this week could be the first live birth of a wild bison east of the Mississippi River in nearly two centuries.

The Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it will consider federal protections for the Alaska yellow cedar tree, the Mohave shoulderband snail and eight other species.

A federal judge this week ruled in favor of a uranium mining company's bid to restart operations near Grand Canyon National Park.

American Indian reservations are facing new challenges from U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan, tribal officials said at a field hearing in Crow Agency, Mont., yesterday.

Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee spoke in Los Angeles yesterday about the importance of protecting the Clean Air and Clean Water acts from Republican attacks.

Tennessee Republican Rep. Chuck Fleischmann is the new second-in-command at the House Appropriations subcommittee charged with funding the Department of Energy, Bureau of Reclamation and Army Corps of Engineers, the committee announced today.

A planned congressional tour of the mothballed Yucca Mountain repository site today is drawing attention for who wasn't invited to make the trek to the desolate Nevada site.

A lot has changed since Brian Deese first joined President Obama's team of advisers.

The Environmental Defense Fund's collaboration with the natural gas industry to study methane leaks has some environmentalists questioning its advocacy chops.

Add former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee to the list of would-be Democratic presidential primary nominees.

A power outage in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday hit the White House and Capitol building, and even forced the State Department to brief reporters in the dark.

The steady stream of climate adaptation initiatives that has trickled out of the White House in the past year and a half since President Obama unveiled his Climate Action Plan has made few waves.

Sen. Charles Schumer's likely ascent to be the top Democrat in the upper chamber after Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) steps down at the end of 2016 is already fueling speculation about how big a fight the New York lawmaker will put up to kill Yucca Mountain.

A government watchdog group is ramping up its ongoing efforts to compel the Bureau of Land Management to release documents related to its failed roundup of cows owned by Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.

Nestled among its breathtaking rock faces, the Grand Canyon boasts thousands of life-giving seeps and springs. But those trickles could dwindle if an Italian developer gets approval to build thousands of homes and new lodging on the canyon's southern doorstep.

With Cuba's infrastructure in need of rehabilitation, how could lifting trade restrictions on Cuba by the United States affect U.S. energy companies? On today's The Cutting Edge, EnergyWire reporter David Ferris explains how a change in policy could affect the oil and gas sector, renewable energy companies and electric infrastructure developers.

More than 130 dolphins washed ashore on a Japanese beach today, baffling rescuers who tried their best to save the animals.

China's bid to host the Winter Olympics in the Beijing area could spell trouble for the region's limited water supply, environmental advocates warn.

New Jersey lawmakers have introduced a bill to require the state's Department of Environmental Protection to establish a maximum contaminant limit for 1,2,3-trichloropropane (TCP), a chemical U.S. EPA has classified as a likely carcinogen.

West Virginia's Board of Education yesterday approved new K-12 science education standards that water down language on climate change.

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