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Australia's Great Barrier Reef dodged being placed on a U.N. committee's list of "in danger" world heritage sites today, but the group warned the natural wonder is in peril.

HOUSTON -- This month's relentless rain has dealt a heavy blow to Texas' state parks.

The Fish and Wildlife Service yesterday said it has confirmed the doglike animal that was shot and killed by a coyote hunter late last month in north-central Colorado was a federally protected gray wolf.

A former aide to the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday on charges that he used the position to bilk three women out of $500,000.

The chief of staff for West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is leaving Capitol Hill for lobbying.

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) parted ways last night with lobbying powerhouse Dickstein Shapiro -- where he represented several energy industry clients -- in the wake of an indictment tied to the Republican's attempts to cover up his payments of $1.7 million in hush money to an unidentified individual.

Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer announced today he would not challenge the results of the state's Republican gubernatorial primary, conceding the GOP nomination to businessman Matt Bevin and allowing Republicans to focus on the November general election.

Wisconsin's Scott Walker is the latest Republican governor to hint he might opt not to comply with U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan if it is not substantially overhauled before the agency finalizes it this summer.

With Senate opponents gearing up to try to kill the Obama administration's now-final "Waters of the United States" rule this summer, an environmental group is launching an ad campaign urging public support for the rule.

Since 2011, the Association of American Railroads has waged a legal war -- fighting all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court -- to undermine part of a law aimed at helping Amtrak run on time.

A proposed Obama administration resource management plan for almost 800,000 federal acres in the Powder River Basin envisions the leasing of more than 10 billion tons of coal to mining companies over the next two decades.

The Obama administration intends to remove more recovered species from the federal lists of endangered and threatened wildlife and plants than all previous administrations combined, according to a recently released White House regulatory plan.

U.S. EPA proposed renewable fuel targets today that would boost biofuel use over an earlier scrapped proposal for 2014 but still lag targets that Congress anticipated when it wrote the federal biofuels program into law in 2007.

Midwestern officials who have a stake in U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan are gathering in Detroit on Friday to explore implementation options for the proposal to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

Two Australian states are ratcheting up species status listings for two iconic animals.

A new PlayStation 4 Godzilla game from Japan's Sony Corp. will notably leave out one aspect of the monster's classic story -- nuclear radiation.

Dayton, Texas, was transported back to the 1800s this weekend with an old-fashioned cattle drive.

In a major shakeup, four top officials in Maryland's Department of Natural Resources have been let go by Gov. Larry Hogan (R).

Monitoring wells at a former University of California, Davis, laboratory are detecting rising levels of the carcinogen chromium-6, and officials are unable to explain the phenomenon.

New equipment is being installed at Washington state's Hanford Nuclear Reservation to filter uranium from the area's groundwater before it reaches the Columbia River.

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