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Environmentalists have urged House and Senate negotiators on a customs bill to jettison a House-passed provision stripping the U.S. trade representative of the ability to consider climate change in trade deals.

Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker said yesterday that, if elected, he would seek to remake U.S. EPA as an "umbrella organization" that did little besides resolve disputes between state regulators.

The Center for Western Priorities, a conservation group, launched a five-figure online ad campaign today pressing the Interior Department to reform its coal leasing program.

The Nature Conservancy's chief scientist is stepping down to become the director of UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, TNC announced yesterday.

President Obama used the final day of a historic Africa tour to tout the United States' efforts to help the continent's smallholder farmers cope with climate change.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) is pressing President Obama to make up his mind about whether to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.

The House will vote tomorrow on a three-month transportation funding bill and then leave town, a move that dashes any remaining hope for passage of a longer-term Senate measure.

U.S. EPA yesterday wrapped up a public comment period on a contentious proposal to set renewable fuel blending requirements for 2014, 2015 and 2016, as well as the 2017 biodiesel target.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will resume marking up its comprehensive energy package tomorrow, after the panel moved through day one without any major disagreements on the nearly 100 amendments filed to the bill.

A federal court today sent part of U.S. EPA's landmark rule meant to curb air pollution drifting across state lines back to the agency but upheld the rule against broader challenges by state and industry petitioners.

The Dead Sea is shrinking, leaving a trail of sinkholes in its wake.

Authorities in northern Idaho continue looking for information after the stabbings of three goats being used to control weeds near a city well.

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana is still trying to crawl out from beneath the wreckage of the storm.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources announced a major reorganization yesterday to streamline the agency.

Many anglers who fish in rivers and lakes continue to be unaware of the risk of mercury in fish, showing the limits of government-issued health warnings.

The Washington, D.C.-area Metro transit agency is actively looking to remove asbestos from 280 older rail cars, but Metro officials said passengers face no health risk.