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The Obama administration's landmark standards for mercury and other toxic air pollutant emissions from power plants go into effect today, though their future is still up in the air.

In 1953, an influential magazine piece lamented that national parks were beginning to "go to hell" from a lack of maintenance and reluctantly called for closing many of the most popular sites.

Norman Bay's first day on the job as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission was repeatedly interrupted by the removal of shouting climate activists opposed to hydraulic fracturing and the agency's approval of gas pipelines and export terminals.

More than a dozen predominantly Republican-led states, coal companies and other industry groups today pressed federal judges to take the unusual step of blocking U.S. EPA from finalizing greenhouse gas standards for existing power plants.

How does yesterday's U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit hearing on the Clean Power Plan shape the future of the rule and subsequent legal challenges against it? On today's The Cutting Edge, Greenwire reporter Jeremy Jacobs discusses his reporting from inside the courtroom and talks about potential outcomes.

Tea sellers in western India are helping lead the fight against indoor air pollution, a problem the World Health Organization estimates affects 3 billion people worldwide who cook using charcoal and traditional stoves.

In past California droughts, it was easier to obtain records of water guzzlers to shame them into cutting back, but state lawmakers curtailed disclosure of the information in the late 1990s.

The National Park Service is asking U.S. EPA to set a more protective standard for ground-level ozone pollution to minimize impacts to plants and ecosystems.

An online service for federal workers is launching a new job-training portal, filling a void for workforce development services that are provided less often by agencies.

A minor accident at a nuclear cleanup site in eastern Idaho temporarily halted work and exposed a worker to low levels of radiation last year, officials disclosed recently.

An ongoing oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico that began in 2004 has been leaking more oil than the government or the company in charge has previously admitted.

Stanford University today announced a partnership with SunPower Corp. to build a new solar generating station that will provide half its campus electricity and will help transform the institution into one of the most sustainable campuses in the world.

California's public pension plan and nearly 60 other large investors will ask the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today to require oil and natural gas companies to publish analyses of the risks their businesses face from climate change.

Florida's new top environmental official repeatedly tried to dispel concerns Gov. Rick Scott (R) banned public employees from using a certain politically charged phrase during his confirmation hearing Wednesday.

A group of scientists in California has developed a method of artificial photosynthesis using nanowires, bacteria and solar energy to capture and convert carbon emissions into the common chemical building block for plastics, medicine and fuels.

Female hunters are often the subject of ridicule for posting graphic pictures of exotic prey, which can provoke a backlash online.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto released a plan yesterday to protect the critically endangered vaquita marina, the world's smallest porpoise.

Armed guards at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya guard a northern white rhino named Sudan day and night, protecting the last male northern white rhino on the planet.

A man who is locked in a dispute with the Bureau of Land Management over a mining claim he owns on federal land in southwest Oregon is calling on his armed supporters to stand down.

The National Park Service confirmed this week that more than 250 tule elk have died within a fenced preserve at a California park, reviving debate over whether the elk population should be contained or allowed to roam free.

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