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China has ordered ConocoPhillips Co. to pay nearly two dozen aquaculture farmers who claim their crops were harmed by oil spills in 2011.

A Colorado Buddhist-inspired university is struggling to remain peaceful in the face of an invasion by prairie dogs.

Pennsylvania state police used shotguns Wednesday to deflate the escaped military surveillance blimp that floated for hours through two states.

Climate change is leaving an impact on the Gulf of Maine that invasive species are exploiting, and Maine lawmakers are doing little about the problem.

An Oregon teenager has contracted bubonic plague, health officials said.

Last year's Ebola outbreak in western Africa could have been caused by deforestation, French Environment Minister Ségolène Royal said at a summit in the United Kingdom ahead of the Paris climate negotiations next month.

Non-English-speaking Latino residents of low-income neighborhoods are more likely to be exposed to toxic air pollution than other racial groups, according to new research by Washington State University.

The world's largest independent producer is leaving the deepwater oil exploration business to focus on onshore shale drilling.

Environmental groups are protesting a Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality deal with bankrupt coal company Alpha Natural Resources Inc. over cleanup liabilities.

DuPont Industrial Biosciences opened the world's largest cellulosic ethanol plant today in central Iowa.

Unlike California water agencies, most of which have refused to release the identities of the biggest water users, Nevada agencies have done so for years.

A commercial fisherman from New York was sentenced this week to seven months in prison for underreporting his catch of summer fluke to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

A meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources in Hobart, Australia, meant to find consensus to create the world's largest ocean sanctuary in Antarctica ended with no agreement, the group said.

The invasive snakehead fish may carry a type of bacteria that is harmful to other animals, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The Obama administration will focus the first phase of its seafood tracking program on Atlantic cod, blue crab, red snapper and several other "at-risk" fish, according to a notice posted in today's Federal Register.

A new bill by Rep. Cresent Hardy (R-Nev.) would overhaul the Forest Service's law enforcement program, shifting authority away from Washington, D.C., to local foresters and district rangers.

Two former Winston & Strawn LLP lobbyists have opened a new legislative and regulatory affairs consulting firm in Washington, D.C.

Combatants on either side of the Senate climate wars say they plan to make a quick trip to the much-anticipated U.N. climate talks that start one month from today in the French capital.

A former Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee staffer who pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges is scheduled to be sentenced today at U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va.

Newly elected House Speaker Paul Ryan named his top staff today, bringing on board several senior aides who served under him on the Ways and Means Committee.

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