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A high-ranking House Republican is hoping to block the Bureau of Land Management's efforts to craft a new logging plan on 2.5 million acres of federal forests in western Oregon.

President Obama played television journalist yesterday, interviewing famed naturalist David Attenborough on the importance of protecting "this blue marble that we live on" from climate change.

A liberal super PAC is launching a TV ad in Iowa and New Hampshire -- where the first two presidential nominating contests are being held next year -- urging Republican candidates to stand with Pope Francis and not the Koch brothers on the issue of climate change.

Senate Republicans are urging President Obama's nominee to lead the U.S. Chemical Safety Board to take a stand on whether she would discipline two officials accused of improper actions under former CSB Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso.

The Department of Energy will soon launch an effort involving 10 national laboratories that aims to find the perfect fuel and engine combination of the future.

The Supreme Court today refused to consider BP PLC's bid to undercut the potential $13.7 billion in penalties it faces for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Friday blasted the Bureau of Land Management for demanding the Burning Man festival build agency officials a new compound with flush toilets, laundry facilities and ice cream as a condition of receiving a permit to operate on public lands.

The Supreme Court ruled today that the Obama administration unlawfully failed to consider compliance costs before it issued its landmark power plant emission limits for mercury and other hazardous pollutants.

A fire is blazing through a large section of the exclusion zone around the destroyed Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, according to authorities.

Water prices are rising rapidly in Yemen as Arab air strikes and civil war continue to ravage the poor desert country.

Poland's government is working to bring back the European bison, which live in a national park near the country's border with Belarus, but not all are convinced it's a good idea.

A beaver attacked two Oregon men who had climbed onto its dam in the Deschutes River on Thursday night, sending both of them into the water.

Trash is piling up in open spaces in northern New Mexico, but officials say there is not much to be done in a low-income county where waste pickup costs are high.

Activists are targeting Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton (D) with an ad campaign to persuade him to require stricter environmental protections for a proposed copper-nickel mine in the state.

Oregon agriculture officials are investigating whether the hundreds of bumblebees found dead in downtown Portland during the past two weeks are related to other bee deaths around the United States during recent years.

A Southern California city is fighting for an exemption from a state mandate to cut water use by 28 percent, arguing it is water independent and should be able to manage its own affairs.

Florida environmentalists are outraged that more than 300 feet of protected mangrove trees were illegally cut during preparations for the 2016 Miami International Boat Show.

An estimated 53,000 people died in 2007 from on-the-job exposure to toxic chemicals, according to widely cited research, but the federal agency charged with protecting them, the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, has done little to tighten exposure limits that could reduce the deaths.

Naturally occurring chemical compounds stemming from the ocean may help explain why mercury pollution has a long life in the atmosphere, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado, Boulder.

As United Airlines prepares to use fuel made from farm waste and animal fats to power a flight from Los Angeles International Airport to San Francisco this summer, the airline today will announce a $30 million investment in Fulcrum BioEnergy, one of the largest aviation biofuel producers.

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