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A Montana federal judge is giving environmental groups and the Obama administration 60 days to reach an agreement in litigation over a federal permit.

Yellowstone National Park fisheries managers will try to capture native cutthroat trout before moving ahead with a plan to destroy invasive brook trout in the park's Soda Butte Creek.

Florida's panther population is estimated to number less than 180 as drivers kill dozens of the big cats annually, but the state is considering cutting protections for its state animal.

Researchers have waded through ticks, mosquitoes and tall grass at night in an overgrown field north of Dulles International Airport, but thus far it appears an endangered bat is not likely to hold up the proposed construction of a new Washington, D.C., Metro rail car yard.

Jan Casimir Seski, a doctor from Pennsylvania accused of shooting a lion in Zimbabwe in April, is now the second American wanted by African authorities as the death of Cecil the lion continues to fuel international outrage.

The Forest Service late last week announced it and the state of Alaska will invest $4 million to help the Tongass National Forest transition away from old-growth logging.

GUNPOWDER, Md. -- The U.S. Army is joining the fight against invasive species.

Greater sage grouse numbers in the West have grown by nearly two-thirds since 2013, marking what could be a significant rebound to the bird's previous several years of decline, according to scientists in Western states.

John Gibbons, a former science adviser to President Clinton and Congress who argued for more efficient cars, cooperation in space and a ban on nuclear tests, died last month at a retirement home in Crozet, Va., his family confirmed.

NextEra Energy Inc., which owns electric utility giant Florida Power & Light Co., has contributed more than $1 million this year to Right to Rise, the super political action committee backing Republican presidential hopeful and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said yesterday he does not believe global warming is occurring.

Republican voters in two early primary states are less than enthusiastic about the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, despite endorsing limits on carbon pollution, according to a poll released today.

The coal industry is arguably the hardest hit in the Obama administration's new rules to cut down on carbon emissions from new and existing power plants.

At least one change U.S. EPA made to its Clean Power Plan before finalizing it was clearly aimed at a specific audience: the Supreme Court's nine justices.

President Obama vowed in his second inauguration address that he would build a legacy on global warming. "We will respond," he said, "to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations." Today, Obama will fulfill his promise with the release of U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan.

Following yesterday's White House release of the final Clean Power Plan, what are the possible legal vulnerabilities that exist for U.S. EPA in its final rule? During today's OnPoint, Roger Martella, a partner at Sidley Austin and a former general counsel at EPA, explains how changes made to the rule may not strengthen EPA's legal standing before the courts.

A group of Brazilian universities and research institutes will devise a plan to clean up the polluted waters of Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay before Olympic sailing events are held there next year.

The Sierra Club may sue over construction of a high school on a former toxic waste site in New Orleans, according to a notice filed yesterday.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will review the disability status of Marines who developed cancers or other health problems due to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

A device often used to measure methane leaks from industrial sources may significantly underestimate those emissions, according to an inventor of the technology the device uses.

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