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Last month was the wettest month on record in the contiguous United States, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration meteorologists.

The sprawl of Houston is gradually encroaching on the rural areas around Sam Houston National Forest, and visitation is booming, increasing the strain on rangers trying to preserve the pines just 60 miles north of the burgeoning Texas city.

An updated recovery plan for endangered Mexican grey wolves is needed, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday by the Arizona Game and Fish Department.

A final recovery plan released yesterday outlines a self-sustaining future for sockeye salmon in the Northwest's Snake River, a run once on the verge of extinction.

Rudy Mussi and his father before him have been farming west of Stockton, Calif., for 82 years, taking advantage of abundant water that surrounds their property. If levees there broke, he said, their fields would be under water a foot deep.

Mervin Field, the creator of the California opinion gauge now called the Field Poll, has died.

Green groups are skeptical that a conservative businessman's new multimillion-dollar climate change campaign will sway Republican lawmakers to address global warming.

Ride-calling company Lyft Inc. has added to its modest congressional lobbying presence by hiring the Podesta Group, according to a newly filed registration.

Former Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) plans to lobby the Obama administration on behalf of several new clients.

A top White House official today disputed the notion that the administration's effort to promote oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean conflicts with its strategy to curb climate change.

The White House should use a standing power to exempt oil shipments to important allies from a 1975 export ban while Congress pursues a repeal of the provision that is the "most effective" pathway for domestic oil to access global markets, according to a white paper from the chairwoman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee unveiled today.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval announced today that he will not bid to succeed retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D), denying Republicans their top choice in the open-seat race next year and creating a vacuum that could result in a contentious GOP primary.

Two Democratic senators will unveil their proposal to price carbon tomorrow at a right-leaning think tank that has sometimes championed a revenue-neutral carbon levy.

The largest union for U.S. EPA employees today strongly criticized the agency's hiring process and treatment of misbehaving managers.

Former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Jon Wellinghoff's showing of an unauthorized video clip on a FERC investigation at an energy forum earlier this year posed a threat to the agency's regulatory and enforcement integrity, the Department of Energy's inspector general said in a report released today.

Republican House appropriators today released a draft fiscal 2016 spending bill for the Interior Department and U.S. EPA that contains several policy riders aimed at key Obama administration environmental regulations.

A federal appeals court today dismissed an attempt by more than a dozen states, energy companies and industry groups to block U.S. EPA from finalizing its landmark greenhouse gas standards for power plants.

As a broad range of stakeholders express concern over U.S. EPA's proposed renewable fuel standard volume obligations for 2014 through 2016, how will the agency respond to the resistance in its final rule? During today's OnPoint, Chet Thompson, president of the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers and a former deputy general counsel at EPA, discusses the legal considerations made by the agency as it crafted its draft volume obligation proposal. He also explains why he believes the 2016 volume obligation will pose a technological challenge for the biofuels industry.

Documents released by a leading human rights advocacy group indicate a Congolese military officer caught on film allegedly trying to bribe a park ranger was employed by the British oil company exploring for oil in Africa's oldest national park.

Costa Rica is voicing its concerns about a planned $50 billion canal project in Nicaragua and is asking for more information on its environmental impacts.

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