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An epic legal battle surrounding the Obama administration's signature climate change rule formally kicks off tomorrow. U.S. EPA is set to publish its Clean Power Plan -- a rule to crack down on power plants' greenhouse gas emissions -- in the Federal Register. The bureaucratic move will trigger a flurry of lawsuits and launch what promises to be a lengthy war in the courts over the Obama administration's regulation.

After nearly three months of anticipation, U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan was published in the Federal Register today. It's a significant step that tees up a series of legal and legislative challenges. On today's The Cutting Edge, EnergyWire reporter Rod Kuckro discusses the road ahead for the plan and previews his sit-down interview with EPA air chief Janet McCabe.

Calmly and collectively, a group of Alaskans shooed a moose out of a grocery store yesterday while onlookers and other employees took photos and videos of the "Only in Alaska" moment.

Boston's famously massive and persistent snow pile will not be making an encore this coming winter, officials said.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has sold almost as many hunting licenses as the state is estimated to have bears ahead of a controversial hunting season that kicks off tomorrow for the first time in two decades.

Alaskan leaders have officially scrapped the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere" project that would have connected Ketchikan with the city's airport on a nearby island, to the dismay of many residents and local leaders.

Yesterday's Department of the Interior release of its investigation into this summer's abandoned mine spill in Colorado is intensifying scrutiny of U.S. EPA's role in the accident.

Weakening currencies worldwide are allowing mining companies to continue to expand despite plunging ore prices, thus continuing a cycle of low prices and low costs.

According to the new chairwoman of the United Kingdom's oil and gas drilling lobby, women are less likely than men to support fracking because they rely more on emotions than facts.

Los Angeles residents have done such a good job at conserving water that the city's Department of Water and Power is now short on revenue.

Idaho Fish and Game has tracked down long-lost footage of beavers being parachuted into the state's remote Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness.

E.U. officials reached an agreement yesterday on catch limits for common commercial fish species in the Baltic Sea for next year, but environmentalists have attacked them for being too high.

A beluga whale died unexpectedly yesterday at the Georgia Aquarium.

Extensive damage from flash flooding Sunday will keep one of Death Valley National Park's most popular tourist attractions closed until at least spring.

Hurricane Patricia is the strongest storm ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere, with maximum sustained winds around 200 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The Interior Department should cancel all the natural gas drilling leases in the Badger-Two Medicine area of Montana's Lewis and Clark National Forest, according to 19 retired Forest Service leaders, including former agency Chief Dale Bosworth.

The Bureau of Land Management has formally issued a permit that will allow ConocoPhillips Co. to drill the first oil production well in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A).

The state of Nevada and seven more counties in that state have joined a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn sweeping federal land-use plan amendments designed to protect the greater sage grouse -- a move that appeared to upset Gov. Brian Sandoval (R).

Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee today ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, offering no specifics for his decision in remarks at a Women's Leadership Forum conference.

SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. has added one of K Street's most prominent firms to its lobbying roster.

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