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New water quality regulations for mining packed into legislation signed by California Gov. Jerry Brown last week could lift the state's 2009 ban on new mining activity.

Some buyers of Tesla Motors' new Model X could qualify for up to $35,000 in tax and rebate benefits, but a growing resentment toward tax benefits for upper-class Americans could cause a backlash.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio and producer Jennifer Davisson have agreed to produce a Paramount movie about the Volkswagen diesel scandal.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) signed legislation last week making it easier for oil and gas drillers to use mine wastewater in the hydraulic fracturing process.

Wind gusts Sunday in two Montana cities reached as high as 72 miles per hour, but except for a damaged wind turbine at Billings' City College campus, damage was moderate.

Oil prices stay low and man camps continue to empty, but energy companies are trying desperately to keep the highways of remote Northern Alberta humming.

About 70 percent of Americans now believe in climate change science, according to a new survey -- the highest acceptance level since 2008.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is the latest organization to weigh in on the need for the world to reach an ambitious agreement in Paris at the end of this year.

With a tiny titanium flag planted under the North Pole in 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin stoked fears of a resurgent expansionist Russia taking hold of the region.

The last rain in Colombia's Alta Guajira region fell three years ago, and the largely indigenous 200,000 residents of the area are now struggling to survive.

California's biggest water glutton lives somewhere in Bel Air but remains anonymous in the wealthy neighborhood, where the lawns outside multimillion-dollar mansions stay green despite statewide attempts to reduce water use amid the record drought.

California has slashed its water use this past summer as the state struggles through drought, and while conservation policies and penalties have been effective, they've gotten help from an informal nagging culture that's developed.

The Supreme Court today rejected pleas to take up a case surrounding claims to Utah roads that cut across federal lands, a move that could have broad implications for ongoing disputes in the West.

Three crew members from one of the world's most notorious illegal fishing vessels were convicted in São Tomé and Príncipe court yesterday, according to Interpol.

If one federal agency could fine another, the Malheur National Forest would be slapped with $324,500 in fines for violations in two ranger districts in the eastern Oregon forest.

The Fish and Wildlife Service does not have the resources to control illegal wildlife trafficking into this country from the Latin American region, according to a new report that found a sizable portion of the smuggled plants and animals are already at risk of extinction.

The Forest Service plans to withdraw its approval of a timber sale within the Tongass National Forest, potentially resolving a lawsuit over whether the logging activity would harm local deer and wolves.

House Natural Resources Committee members are on a quest to help the U.S. mining industry train replacements for its aging workforce.

House Natural Resources ranking member Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) yesterday said he will introduce a bill to protect 1.7 million acres of federal lands surrounding Grand Canyon National Park from future mining and other threats, a measure that is unlikely to pass Congress but aims to provide President Obama a blueprint for protecting the lands under the Antiquities Act.

Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) has introduced legislation that would ban Cabinet secretaries from using private email servers for government business.

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