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The proposed Gateway Pacific coal terminal could hurt rather than boost the Pacific Northwest economy, potentially undercutting a major argument in favor of the project, according to a study released this afternoon.

Owners of a California nudist colony that boasts of "freeing the nipple for 80 years" apparently have tried to liberate the water, too.

Attorney Thomas Lorenzen, a former high-ranking official in the Justice Department's environmental division, is changing law firms.

Federal court upholds FERC's ratemaking scheme for Wyo. pipeline

The Sierra Club and other environmental groups are threatening to sue New Jersey over protections for the shortnose sturgeon and Atlantic sturgeon.

The Kentucky Department for Natural Resources is asking the Obama administration to approve changes to the state's strip-mining rules in response to an ongoing dispute over landowner consent.

Paul Watson, the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, said he can't return to Canada because the government has refused to return his passport for three years.

Conservationists are hoping a new report outlining the web of the most important countries involved in illegal wildlife trafficking can lead to more effective action.

A scarcity of mature Maryland crabs is driving up prices in the state, according to restaurant owners.

Cod grunts could be the key to saving the fishery.

The Fish and Wildlife Service today moved to formally remove the Eastern cougar from the endangered species list due to extinction.

The Navy has begun two weeks of war games in the Gulf of Alaska, reviving a debate over whether the live shelling, surface explosions and sonar use in such training hurt fish and marine mammals.

Iowa's congressional delegation yesterday called on U.S. EPA to hold a hearing on its recently proposed renewable fuel mandates in the Hawkeye State in the heart of ethanol country.

Real estate mogul Donald Trump kicked off his bid for the Republican presidential nomination today, declaring his candidacy in a meandering speech that included a vow to self-fund his campaign.

Confidence in the U.S. government remains low, according to a new Gallup poll.

Senate Democrats called today for swift passage of a long-term surface transportation bill, with the Obama administration's proposal to tax U.S. multinationals' earnings held overseas as the starting point for negotiations on how to pay for it.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) put a top Energy Department nominee on notice that he'll block Senate action on her nomination unless he sees "concrete" action to address long-standing issues at the Hanford nuclear waste cleanup site in Washington.

Continental Resources Inc. founder Harold Hamm said today that most U.S. refiners support lifting a decades-old crude export ban and warned domestic production will drop by a million barrels a day without the ability to sell overseas.

Persistent partisan deadlock on spending levels and policy riders was on full display this morning as the House Appropriations Committee considered an Interior Department and U.S. EPA funding bill that faces long odds to enactment.

A Utah county commissioner who last month was convicted of leading an illegal off-highway vehicle (OHV) ride through Recapture Canyon has launched a nonprofit dedicated to supporting those "whose freedoms are at risk."

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