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Higher temperatures have already melted most of the mountain snowpack across the West, according to a sobering new report from the Department of Agriculture that warns this could lead to water supply shortfalls this summer.

As U.S. EPA moves forward with emissions regulations, how should lawmakers approach the conversation on carbon pricing? During today's OnPoint, Sam Adams, director of the World Resources Institute's U.S. Climate Initiative and the former mayor of Portland, Ore., discusses WRI's new carbon pricing handbook for U.S. policymakers and talks about the politics of climate change legislation.

Time is running short for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to weigh in on how to address reliability concerns arising from state compliance with U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan, although the industry seems to be coalescing around tools that might be needed.

Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos has ordered authorities to stop using the herbicide glyphosate, also known as Roundup, to eradicate coca plantations, citing its health dangers.

Kenya officials opened a new forensic laboratory last week that will amass a DNA database taken from endangered wildlife to shore up prosecutions of poachers threatening many Africa species with extinction.

Shaken up by last month's devastating earthquake in Nepal, a large area of the Himalayas have actually dropped in height.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval (R) has proposed creating a new Environmental Division at the Department of Transportation to prevent stormwater runoff.

A new Indiana law would result in minimal consumer savings and could put the state in violation of the U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan, environmentalists say.

The drought gripping California for a fourth straight year has turned orchards in the San Joaquin Valley into perfect biofuel, but a slumping biomass industry is forcing many farmers to burn their crops at the expense of the region's air quality.

The bullet train between Los Angeles and San Francisco is currently predicted to be one of the cheapest high-speed rail rides in the world.

For the eighth straight year, Washington state ranks as the most bicycle-friendly in the nation while Alabama remains chained to last place, according to an advocacy group's latest scorecard released this morning.

U.S. EPA has signed off on a plan for Louisiana to dispose of 16 million pounds of artillery propellants and explosives at the National Guard's Camp Minden using a "contained burn" method.

Ohio's governor and top environmental official are looking to neighboring states to fight pollutants that feed toxic algae blooms in Lake Erie.

U.S. EPA and New York officials today resolved six years of legal wrangling over air and water pollution at a coke oven factory just south of Niagara Falls.

Federal weather predictors could have issued better warnings to farmers during California's current drought, according to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Some recyclers are finding that new types of packaging make it hard for them to turn a profit from reusing the material.

Agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from its crop protection operations by 22 percent per pound of active ingredient by 2020, the company announced today in its annual sustainability report.

A U.S. district court bench trial was scratched from the scheduled today as environmentalists and the owners of a dairy accused of groundwater pollution are reportedly nearing a settlement that could set a national precedent in battles over manure management at large animal operations.

Animal rights groups today said they will sue the Miami Seaquarium over the captivity of a killer whale called Lolita, asserting that the aquarium's treatment of the orca violates the Endangered Species Act.

Environmental groups today pressed federal judges to overturn a U.S. EPA policy that exempted used tires, oil and other materials that are burned for energy from more stringent air pollution standards.

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