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A federal judge Friday dismissed Oklahoma's most recent challenge to President Obama's proposed air standards for greenhouse gas emissions.

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, researchers have published a 566-page book on managing invasive quagga and zebra mussels in the western United States, just in time for summer beach reading.

Army officials are hoping to expand off-base aerial operations in Washington state by creating a training area in the North Cascades mountains to practice helicopter flyovers and high-altitude landings.

A world-class surfing competition in South Africa was cut short when a competitor fended off an attacking shark on live television.

The decline of bee populations is widely known, but federal scientists and an army of civilian volunteers are still working on baseline data and figuring out why some species seem to fair much better in urban environments.

The Eye of the Sahara -- a geologic feature in Mauritania on the western edge of the Africa desert -- offers a sneak peak of the fourth installment of "Earth as Art," a world of images amassed by the federal Landsat program.

The Washington state Legislature has rejected most of the green initiatives credited with getting Gov. Jay Inslee (D) elected to office.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller has paid particular attention to his public image in his first six months in his new state post, records show.

When delegates from around the world gather in Paris later this year to discuss a new climate accord, representatives of the coal industry will be pushing the fuel as part of the solution.

An outspoken Capitol Hill veteran resigned as spokesman for the Solar Energy Industries Association on Friday even as the industry is facing a critical juncture for expiring tax incentives.

Florida Rep. David Jolly today declared his bid for the Sunshine State's open Senate seat, becoming the second Republican contender in recent days to kick off a campaign in a rapidly expanding GOP primary.

The Obama administration should take prompt action to reduce the waste of natural gas from drilling and production activities, according to New Mexico's Democratic lawmakers.

Two Democratic senators today restated their plans to seek changes to auto safety legislation that could come up on the Senate floor this week, potentially imperiling Republican hopes of passing a transportation funding bill that would last at least through next year.

The Justice Department's environment division will announce a new position today to foster better relationships with state and local governments, Greenwire has learned.

The Fish and Wildlife Service wasn't completely forthcoming in response to a congressional inquiry about lobbying against a wild horse bill, according to the Interior Department's internal watchdog.

California by next summer must develop a plan to clean up the freight sector, including driving a transition to technologies with zero tailpipe emissions, Gov. Jerry Brown (D) mandated Friday.

Only a few days before U.S. EPA announced its sweeping regulation to reduce power plants' carbon pollution known as the Clean Power Plan, Administrator Gina McCarthy was scheduled to be in her office on a Saturday. Hundreds of pages of records obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request and reviewed by Greenwire detail McCarthy's itinerary day by day, minute by minute.

With U.S. EPA set to release its final Clean Power Plan over the next few weeks, what are the key changes to watch for in the agency's rollout of the rule? During today's OnPoint, Jonas Monast, director of the climate and energy program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, discusses the critical elements of the draft proposal that are likely to face changes in the final rule. He also talks about the range of options that exist for states that are considering a multistate compliance mechanism.

Activists have launched protests and a hunger strike over plans to build an 800-megawatt coal power plant near some of Thailand's most heavily used beaches.

Rock star Neil Young is supporting Vermont's efforts to label foods containing genetically modified ingredients.

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