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The League of Conservation Voters unveiled a $625,000 advertising campaign today taking aim at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and urging senators to buck what the environmental group calls "the big polluter agenda."

The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation announced today that its 2015 Profile in Courage award will go to one of the lone Republican voices for a carbon tax.

Central California air regulators facing a potential lowering of the national ozone standard are pitching a plan to Congress to "modernize" the Clean Air Act.

Thanks to the military spending bill signed into law in December 2014, Pershing Park in Washington, D.C., is set to get a major makeover.

U.S. EPA and the Forest Service have denied petitions by environmental groups and tribes for agencies to scrutinize the potential impacts of a mining surge around the Great Lakes.

Energy companies and 15 predominantly Republican-led states will press federal judges this week to halt President Obama's greenhouse gas standards for power plants.

When Sally Jewell was sworn in as secretary of the Interior on April 12, 2013, the Beltway outsider needed daily crash courses in how to run the nation's largest land management agency with its conflicting goals of resource development and conservation. "It was like studying for a final every night," Jewell said. But two years into her tenure, Jewell says she's "conversant" in Interior's portfolio of wildlife protection, energy development, recreation and historical preservation on roughly one-fifth of the nation's land, in addition to improving the quality of life for American Indians.

As pressure grows for U.S. EPA to change its draft Clean Power Plan proposal, a group of electric cooperative CEOs met with EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy this week to discuss their concerns with the current plan. During today's OnPoint, Duane Highley, CEO of Arkansas Electric Cooperative, and Lisa Johnson, CEO and general manager of Seminole Electric Cooperative, discuss the details of their meeting yesterday with McCarthy. Johnson also talks about her upcoming testimony before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on the impact of the Clean Power Plan on electric co-ops.

A golfer at an Australian tourist resort was bitten in the leg by a crocodile while retrieving his ball from a water trap.

The Zambian Cabinet is backing away from increasing mining-sector royalties as miners in Africa's second-largest copper-producing nation battle plummeting global metal prices.

Brazilian mining giant Vale SA is carving another open-cast iron mine in the Amazon rainforest, enraging conservationists as Brazil grapples with balancing economic growth and conservation.

The Hague will host the first public hearing today on a lawsuit aimed at forcing the Dutch government to take action on climate change.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plan to get Japan back on atomic power hit a snag when a court issued an injunction today to stop the restart of two nuclear reactors, citing safety concerns.

Thousands of striking blue jellyfishlike animals have washed up on Oregon beaches.

An aerial bombardment of Asian carp rained down on a Missouri university rowing team last week.

Texas has become the latest state to turn to the sea to alleviate its drought.

The nearly shiny black liquid used to protect and spruce up parking lots and playgrounds has deadly downstream effects well after application, according to a pair of studies contradicting the pavement sealant industry's best management practices.

Federal judges appeared reluctant today to bite on a challenge from North Carolina to U.S. EPA base-line standards for fine particle, or soot, air pollution.

A California water wholesaler that supplies 19 million people is slated to vote today on whether to cut by 15 percent the allotments its members can take this summer, with steep penalties for those not complying.

Amtrak has yet to fully act on dozens of recommended changes urged by its inspector general over the last four years related to its money-losing food and beverage operations, above-average levels of worker substance abuse, and other areas, according to a recent letter to Congress from IG Tom Howard.

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