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Scientists are still trying to figure out what killed about 20 endangered whales found beached in Chile on April 21.

The Navajo Nation and a foundation backed by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) and actor Robert Redford are nearing a deal that would halt wild horse roundups on the nation's largest and most populous reservation.

The Army Corps of Engineers should consult with other agencies when permitting offshore aquaculture, according to a new report from the Environmental Law Institute.

The Fish and Wildlife Service's Southeast Region will stop planting genetically modified crops in wildlife refuges, according to a Federal Register notice to be published Monday.

The National Park Service will create a no-fishing zone in Biscayne National Park, in a controversial decision that marks the beginning of stricter regulations to protect dwindling fish populations and damaged coral reefs.

A progressive group today launched a video highlighting recent oil spills in an effort to promote the renewable fuel standard.

Add Lincoln Chafee's former Senate rival to the list of people who think he stands as much chance of winning the Democratic presidential nomination as the United States does of adopting the metric system.

House lawmakers rebuffed an attempt to defund the federally subsidized Essential Air Service early yesterday amid a series of amendment votes to the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill.

Systems that capture the heat thrown off by electric generation and industrial production to create additional energy would receive a 30 percent tax credit -- equal to current incentives for other forms of renewable energy -- under bipartisan bills introduced yesterday in the Senate and House.

Enforcement of a more stringent U.S. EPA standard for ozone would require better data and improved modeling, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists say in a commentary published today.

U.S. EPA employees' personal information may have been swept up in a massive data hack aimed at federal workers.

The Bureau of Land Management released final plans last week for bolstering sage grouse protections across 50 million acres in 10 states in what's been called the agency's largest landscape-scale conservation plan.

Before finalizing its rule defining which streams and wetlands qualify for federal protection last month, U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers considered more than 1 million public comments. But the opinion that mattered most to them didn't come from a stakeholder. It came from one Supreme Court justice nine years ago.

Last month, U.S. EPA released its 2014-through-2016 renewable fuel standard proposal. Were there any stakeholders that emerged as clear winners? During today's OnPoint, Tom Buis, CEO of Growth Energy, explains his concern over the year-to-year blend wall established by the agency. He also talks about the investment uncertainty resulting from a lack of specificity from the agency on 2017 volume obligations.

With the Clean Power Plan under final review at the White House, electric industry conferences this week will focus on how states can implement the draft rule without jeopardizing electric reliability.

A Haitian conservationist is heading up a local campaign to protect what remains of the impoverished country's northern coastline.

In preparation for a possible seal cull, a Canadian nonprofit is considering reviving the controversial seal penis trade.

The next target of China's pollution crackdown could be emissions from boats and ships.

Thousands of angry bees swarmed in Los Angeles on Saturday after a truck crashed into a tree, displacing them.

Nitrogen pollution and elevated algae blooms have prompted a huge fish die-off on Long Island, N.Y., with tens of thousands of fish and turtle carcasses washing ashore the Peconic River.

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