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An oil rig is reportedly listing in the Gulf of Mexico after an accident left two workers dead and 10 injured, according to Mexico's state oil company.

Four years after the Army unveiled an ambitious plan to shrink the environmental footprint of 19 bases by 2020, progress has been made, but it's tough to measure.

Duke Energy Corp. is asking a Delaware judge to halt a shareholder lawsuit over a coal ash spill in North Carolina while the company battles several related lawsuits and the $102 million settlement of a federal criminal investigation.

Construction of a 21-mile natural gas pipeline has been stopped after a Baltimore County judge ruled that state regulators haven't done enough to protect waterways in the pipeline's path.

A veteran energy regulatory attorney is joining Covington & Burling's Washington, D.C., office.

The Securities and Exchange Commission this afternoon will face off against Oxfam America in federal court over the agency's delay in reissuing a rule requiring extraction companies to disclose payments to governments.

A federal appeals court yesterday rejected an effort by environmentalists to force the Bureau of Land Management to reduce livestock grazing on 640,000 acres of public lands in the Southwest.

Idaho authorities are looking for the person who scrawled "DESTINY, PROM?" in pink and blue spray paint across a cliff face near Boise.

An Indonesian man was arrested Monday after police found his luggage packed with more than 20 plastic water bottles, each stuffed with a still-living rare bird.

Officials are calling the drowning of a sea lion at Bonneville Dam a "freak accident" after the marine mammal got tangled between two traps.

The whooping crane, sky blue poison dart frog and other endangered species that rely on specific forest ecosystems are increasingly at risk of extinction, according to a new analysis of global deforestation by the World Resources Institute.

The Center for Biological Diversity filed yesterday two notices of intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service, accusing the agency of not adequately protecting two species of fish.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today finalized its plan for spending a slice of penalty money from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill that is tagged for research.

Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe defended his agency's budget request at a Senate hearing today by highlighting its success at removing species from the endangered and threatened species lists and reducing its deferred maintenance backlog.

Despite the political heat Uber has received, the car-booking service continues to dominate its competitors in terms of shuttling politicians and staffers on both sides of the aisle.

Republican voters in New Hampshire and Iowa take a dim view of using eminent domain to build pipelines like Keystone XL, according to a new poll released by the group NextGen Climate.

A former U.S. EPA regional administrator and White House veteran is taking the helm of the nonprofit Conservation Law Foundation, New England's predominant environmental law nonprofit.

The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers has boosted its K Street presence as it battles in Washington, D.C., over the renewable fuel standard and oil train safety regulations.

The Department of State's chief Freedom of Information Act officer faced a tough crowd at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today.

An updated human health risk assessment for a 1960s-era insecticide has few supporters, with environmentalists saying the study is too lax and manufacturers claiming it is too restrictive.

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