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A North Carolina federal judge yesterday refused to dismiss or halt litigation by environmental groups against Duke Energy Corp. over concerns about coal-combustion waste pollution from the company's retired Buck Steam Station in Rowan County.

A federal appeals court will hold oral arguments in December on whether it will review the legal battle over the Obama administration's controversial water rule or send the challenges to district court.

County prosecutors in eastern Oregon are examining the evidence against a hunter who could face criminal charges for shooting an endangered gray wolf.

No cleanup work has begun five years after a Chinese oil tanker ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef, leaving behind toxic paint that kills coral.

Record drought is killing lawns across California but helping monarch butterflies as populations of native milkweed flutter back to life.

The Bureau of Land Management has made marked improvements in its efforts to better manage and raise the profile of the National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) in the last five years, according to a new report that cautions chronic underfunding has hampered the agency's ability to protect cultural and natural resources.

Former U.S. EPA Administrator William Reilly said today the Clean Power Plan would survive legal challenges, urging regulators to start writing state plans.

Federal workers can expect Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to come down hard on their paychecks if he becomes the next speaker of the House.

A Washington, D.C.-area real estate developer has signed up a former aide to Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman James Inhofe (R-Okla.) to lobby on what a newly filed registration describes as an "Amtrak property issue."

House Republicans will hold their election for speaker Oct. 28, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced today.

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton's criticism of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for failing to fully weigh concerns about climate change and the impacts of energy development on communities is being praised by environmentalists who have been protesting the agency's work on natural gas projects.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said today that if he wins the White House, the Interior Department would find its headquarters relocated as far west as Reno, Nev., one of several proposals the Republican outlined at a Nevada campaign stop as he presented his plans to overhaul federal land management.

Vice President Joe Biden announced today that he will not seek the Democratic presidential nomination, asserting that he would not have time to mount a "realistic campaign."

What happens when you try to fit an evolving electric grid into an 80-year-old statute? Lawsuits wind their way to the Supreme Court.

As the renewable fuel standard faces continued regulatory and legislative uncertainty, DuPont Biofuels is set to open the world's largest cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in Iowa at the end of the month. How will the uncertainty impact production and international partnerships? During today's OnPoint, Jan Koninckx, global business director of biofuels at DuPont, discusses his company's plans to continue expanding its business internationally in response to an uncertain landscape in the United States.

A Chinese Coca-Cola Co. bottling facility doctored pollution data, according to local news reports.

Palau's National Congress today unanimously approved designating 80 percent of the tiny Pacific island nation's maritime territory off-limits to fishing and oil drilling.

Cuba's waters are home to nearly one-fifth of the world's shark species, and the country moved yesterday to protect them and their habitat.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) has rejected a state plan to expand mountain lion hunting, objecting to a lack of transparency in the rulemaking.

Airlines' ability to pack more people onto their planes may leave passengers grumbling, but it's helping to improve the industry's fuel economy, a new analysis concludes.

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