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Coal-producing states will soon go on record opposing the Obama administration's landmark proposed rule to protect waterways from mining.

U.S. EPA and environmental groups have agreed to settle a lawsuit over the operating permit for a Utah coal-fired power plant.

The Council of Inspectors General has awarded the Department of Energy inspector general the Integrity and Efficiency Award for a February 2014 investigation into a leak at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico.

The Chemical Safety Board is still not investigating all accidents that fall within its jurisdiction, according to a U.S. EPA inspector general report released today.

Massachusetts, California and Vermont topped the rankings of a scorecard of states on energy efficiency released yesterday.

Climate security experts credited the Defense Department for helping to make believing in climate change more mainstream during an event at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., yesterday.

A prominent attorney who helped people sue BP PLC after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of identity theft and making false claims.

An Iowa taxidermist was sentenced to 27 months in prison Tuesday for smuggling endangered black rhino horns, according to federal court documents.

Massey Energy Co. CEO Don Blankenship and his lawyers have been ordered to not speak to jurors in his trial about Blankenship's belief that he's a victim of the Obama administration and to not argue over the validity of safety rules.

A panel of judges today questioned whether truckers can sue U.S. EPA in a federal appeals court over California greenhouse gas rules for heavy trucks.

A new species of tortoise has emerged from the Galápagos Islands for the first time in more than a century, according to a report released yesterday in the journal PLOS ONE.

The U.S. Geological Survey publicly questioned a study predicting a 99.9 percent chance of a large earthquake striking the Los Angeles area in the next three years -- a rare move for the agency.

More than four in five voters in Nevada and Colorado say a candidate's positions on public lands, waters and wildlife are important factors in election decisions, according to a newly released poll commissioned by the Outdoor Industry Association.

Resources for the Future President Phil Sharp announced today that he will retire this coming summer.

BONN, Germany -- The head of the Green Climate Fund today shrugged off U.S. Republicans who called the global financing source for poor nations grappling with climate change a "slush fund" and said she was confident American dollars would materialize.

U.S. EPA has sent a proposal concerning the costs of its mercury rule for power plants to the White House for review.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said today that Democrats would "look forward" to a Paul Ryan speakership, but she stopped short of giving the Wisconsin Republican a full-throated endorsement.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission today granted Tennessee's Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station a 40-year operating license for its Unit 2 reactor, the first one issued by the agency since 1996.