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Federal judges Friday declined a request from Iowans to reconsider their bid to force U.S. EPA to regulate toxic air emissions from animal feeding operations.

Conservationists are demanding that two men filmed surfing atop a whale shark be prosecuted for harassing a rare example of the largest fish in the world.

Demand for antlers as rustic décor has increased strain on deer and elk populations in the Pacific Northwest.

The U.S Forest Service has deployed an army of tiny silver flies to help save the East Coast's hemlock forests.

Researchers are working to identify what killed nine endangered fin whales that were found dead in recent weeks in Alaskan waters.

High water temperatures have led to hundreds of dead spring chinook salmon being found in Oregon rivers over the past week, wildlife officials said Friday.

Animal species are disappearing today at a rate nearly 100 times higher than in the past because of humans, according to a new study.

The body of former longtime White House chef Walter Scheib was found yesterday off a trail in New Mexico, according to state police.

Wyoming has asked a federal appeals court to order the federal government to remove wild horses from public lands in the Cowboy State.

President Obama found himself the subject of controversy this weekend for returning to a favorite spot, the Sunnylands resort, to play golf in one of the most arid parts of California.

The American Farm Bureau Federation has hired a Midwestern agriculture official to lead its congressional outreach, the organization announced today.

Five Democratic governors Friday called on U.S. EPA to follow the advice of its scientific advisory panel and lower the limit for ground-level ozone.

Climate activist and Democratic mega-donor Tom Steyer praised President Obama's actions to combat climate change during a fundraiser at his San Francisco home Friday evening.

Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine revealed today that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and plans to undergo surgery this week.

Amtrak is over budget and in danger of missing a 2017 deadline for completion of a $450 million upgrade along some of its New Jersey tracks, the passenger railroad's inspector general concludes in a new audit report.

The Civilian Conservation Corps is not dead -- just different.

The United States' future with global climate change action looks a lot brighter than its future without it, U.S. EPA argues in a peer-reviewed scientific report unveiled today at the White House.

The Supreme Court sided today with a California farmer who claimed a Depression-era program requiring him to give the government some of his raisins violated his constitutional rights.

With a wide range of stakeholders pushing back against U.S. EPA's renewable volume obligations proposal for 2014-2016, why is the biomass-based diesel industry largely positive about the agency's draft? During today's OnPoint, Dan Oh, CEO of the Renewable Energy Group, the country's largest biodiesel company, discusses the impact of the RVOs on long-term investments and the financial viability of his industry.

Canadian authorities are trying to identify a man who rode a swimming moose and his friends who laughed at his exploits.

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