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Protecting primary greater sage grouse habitat on federal lands in six Western states also supports growing outdoor recreation-based economies in those regions, according to a new report designed to address critics who have expressed concerns that recent federal grouse conservation plans covering millions of acres could stifle economic activity.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors approved a resolution this week urging Congress to reauthorize and fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

The Sierra Club is turning to what it hopes is a new renewable source of energy to help fill its coffers and bring attention to its causes: star power.

Some of the nation's top medical authorities will converge on the White House this afternoon to hammer home the risk climate change poses to human health.

A Senate Appropriations subcommittee this morning approved a fiscal 2016 transportation spending bill that would keep funding for Amtrak and a key grant program at this year's levels, but cut total transit spending by about 4 percent, according to a summary of the legislation.

A bill that would let President Obama "fast-track" trade deals cleared a procedural hurdle in the Senate today in a major victory for the White House and trade supporters.

Higher royalty rates would deter oil and gas companies from drilling on federal lands, threatening jobs and revenue to the U.S. Treasury, industry groups said in comments to the Bureau of Land Management.

U.S. EPA has finalized updated rules for underground storage tanks, the first major regulatory changes in more than 25 years.

The World Health Organization's cancer research agency announced yesterday it had placed the herbicide 2,4-D on its list of "possible" carcinogens, just months after the body gave another weedkiller -- glyphosate -- a similar designation.

A bipartisan group of Senate lawmakers today rolled out a six-year highway spending bill, the first step toward securing passage of the long-term transportation reauthorization measure.

Last fall, Abengoa opened one of the United States' first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol facilities. How does U.S. EPA's recent proposal for 2014-2016 renewable fuel volume obligations impact the outlook for this facility? During today's OnPoint, Christopher Standlee, executive vice president of institutional relationships and governmental affairs at Abengoa Bioenergy, discusses the climate for investments in cellulosic ethanol and talks about his company's plans to expand its international business in the cellulosic space.

Reports that a petrochemical plant may move to a Shanghai suburb prompted 1,000 residents to protest today.

Protestors in Hawaii are preparing to impede construction of one of the world's largest telescopes on the top of Mauna Kea.

Monsanto Co. is planning to pour more than $1 billion over the next three to five years into a facility that produces an herbicide to be used in concert with the company's new suite of genetically engineered crops.

A severe drought in the Caribbean is causing water shortages across the region that are expected to get worse.

The water level in Lake Mead sank to a record low yesterday, reaching a point that will trigger a water supply shortage if it doesn't recover by January.

Environmental groups are joining indigenous leaders who are calling for an agency that resolves disputes along the U.S.-Canada border to take up a major British Columbia mining project.

The site of last month's Amtrak train derailment is one of the curviest stretches of railroad in the Northeast Corridor, the heavily traveled route from Washington, D.C., to Boston.

Destructive thunderstorms that came through eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey yesterday disrupted mass-transit services there today and left nearly 400,000 people without power.

Exxon Mobil Corp. has shut down three platforms off the coast of California because the oil they produce has nowhere to go following a pipeline break last month.

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