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The Kenyan government and wildlife officials have reached a deal that allows a new Chinese-built rail line to cut through a national park near the capital, Nairobi.

Japanese authorities are moving forward with criminal cases against three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co., or TEPCO, the owner of the plant where nuclear reactors melted down during the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi disaster.

A Utah county councilwoman is rekindling an effort to rename Negro Bill Canyon in southern Utah, but the state's largest NAACP chapter opposes the change.

The California Coastal Commission has pushed back by two months a vote on whether to allow SeaWorld San Diego to build larger killer whale tanks after about 75,000 letters and emails flooded in.

A cancer-causing chemical will be eliminated from aerosol arts and crafts sprays under a voluntary agreement between U.S. EPA and an Illinois company.

The Department of Agriculture is accepting comments on a new survey that would track the cost of pollination services.

The country's biggest miner of coal for steelmaking is planning to file for bankruptcy as soon as Monday amid the worst commodities slump in more than a decade.

The chief executive officer of ethanol trade group Growth Energy will assume a new position as co-chairman of the board.

Richard Bass, an oil and gas scion who built Utah's Snowbird ski resort and climbed some of the world's highest mountains, died Sunday. He was 85.

Companies working on advanced nuclear reactor designs can receive up to $6 million in a competition announced today by the Department of Energy.

Acting state Attorney General John Hoffman (R) told a New Jersey Superior Court judge yesterday that the state's settlement with Exxon Mobil Corp. was the best deal for the state.

Utility NV Energy will pay $4.3 million to a southern Nevada American Indian tribe to settle a 2013 lawsuit over pollution from a coal-fired power plant.

Native American tribes that have relied on the Columbia River for centuries are watching the Pacific Northwest's harsh drought imperil the very future of the salmon that are fundamental to their culture and way of life.

California's urban residents cut their water consumption an average 27.3 percent last month, exceeding the state's 25 percent conservation mandate.

California amphibian experts called for a ban yesterday on the importation of all salamander species to prevent the spread of a fungal disease killing amphibians worldwide.

Iceland attacked the recent Arctic fishing moratorium signed by five Arctic coastal states without the island nation's participation as "unacceptable" and a worrying precedent.

The Obama administration is reviewing a petition to extradite Walter Palmer, the American dentist who admitted to killing Cecil the lion, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said yesterday.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration yesterday appointed a new director of its Office of Law Enforcement.

The Obama administration yesterday released a list of the seafood it plans to track boat-to-plate as part of its crackdown on illegal fishing and seafood fraud.

An oil and gas company has agreed to support Sen. Michael Bennet's (D-Colo.) legislation to protect western Colorado's Thompson Divide under an agreement it reached with conservationists and county officials.

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