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An Ontario company has suggested building floating nuclear plants to power mines and towns in the Arctic Circle.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and White House senior adviser Brian Deese will unveil a series of programs this afternoon to help farmers reduce climate-warming emissions.

Environmentalists engaged in a long-running assault on the reservoir built in Yosemite National Park's Hetch Hetchy Valley are asking a state court to force San Francisco to find another water source.

An 18-year-old Florida man was reportedly going in for a kiss but ended up in the hospital after a cottonmouth snake bit his lip.

If the world's oceans were judged as a nation, their gross domestic product would rank seventh in the world, between Britain and Brazil. But the oceans' $2.5 trillion annual economic output is facing steep decline thanks to environmental threats, a study said today.

Two shark species should gain protection under the Endangered Species Act as they face threats from commercial fishing and shark finning, according to Defenders of Wildlife.

The Fish and Wildlife Service yesterday established a new national wildlife refuge in western North Carolina that is intended to conserve southern Appalachian mountain bogs, one of the rarest and most imperiled habitats in the United States.

The Bureau of Land Management this week is set to release draft land-use plans that will govern timber harvests on 2.6 million acres of public forestlands in western Oregon and provide the first updates to the 1994 Northwest Forest Plan.

Canada's Minister of Natural Resources Greg Rickford pressed Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz yesterday on the Obama administration's ongoing review of the trans-boundary Keystone XL oil pipeline.

Former Alaska Sen. Mark Begich (D) has joined Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, a prominent law and lobby firm.

As many tribal advocates urge the Interior Department to speed up its overhaul of the long-criticized federal recognition process for American Indian tribes, a bipartisan group on a House Natural Resources subpanel wants federal officials to halt their controversial revisions to the law known as "Part 83."

A dozen senators are asking Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to maintain support for the landmark Conservation Reserve Program.

Lawmakers expressed concern yesterday over the use of slaves on Thai fishing boats and a recent investigation that tracked the fish they caught to U.S. markets.

Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) is urging the Department of Energy to scrutinize uranium trader Traxys Group's dealings with recipients of government-owned uranium.

Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar today became the first Democrat to add his name to legislation that would lift the ban on crude oil exports.

Sixty years ago, the children of Rongelap Atoll played in what they thought was snow.

U.S. EPA is developing a system modeled after TurboTax for states to submit Clean Power Plan requirements, an agency official said yesterday.

The ground beneath more than 143 million people living in the continental United States has the potential to shake in damaging ways, according to new research outlining a dramatic increase in earthquake risk from previous estimates.

RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. -- A San Diego County irrigation district's efforts to cut water consumption have had little impact so far. Its customers' per-capita water use from last July through February was nearly 14 times the amount tapped by the state's least-thirsty urban district. With California withering in a historic drought, the state has ordered the Santa Fe Irrigation District and other big urban water users to cut consumption by a whopping 36 percent.

A controversial raid by U.S. EPA of a Chicken, Alaska, gold mine in 2013 is given a fresh look, following a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Greenwire. On today's The Cutting Edge, Greenwire reporter Kevin Bogardus discusses what he uncovered in the photos, videos and reports released by the government as a result of the FOIA request. He also talks about how the coverage could affect efforts to remove EPA agents' ability to carry firearms.

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