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A federal appeals court is upholding the Tennessee Valley Authority's decision to burn less coal and more natural gas at its Paradise plant in coal-rich western Kentucky.

Death Valley National Park is picking up the pieces after the wettest October on record caused massive flooding in the notoriously hot and dry stretch of public land.

Pacific cod near Alaska's Aleutian Islands have been regularly making a meal of marine birds, according to new research.

Mount St. Helens is not threatening to erupt despite the massive magma chambers beneath its slopes, according to a new study.

A new national park was created today to enshrine the legacy of America's nuclear weapons program.

The gray wolf was struck from Oregon's endangered species list yesterday by the state wildlife board.

SeaWorld San Diego will cut back on killer whale show theatrics in 2017, SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. CEO Joel Manby told investors yesterday.

A Republican-led Colorado county commission is asking the state's congressional delegation to support long-term protection of the pristine Thompson Divide region from oil and gas drilling, including the permanent withdrawal of some parcels from future leases.

The West Coast could see a repeat in 2016 of this year's unprecedented algal bloom, which closed down a lucrative crab fishery and spread toxins throughout the marine ecosystem.

The Forest Service increased the pace and scale of restoration and logging work between 2011 and 2014, but the progress is threatened by the increasing cost of fighting wildfires in a drought-plagued West, according to a new report the agency released this morning.

Democratic presidential candidates and a handful of Republicans received favorable marks on a midterm assessment of the White House contenders' views on the renewable fuel standard.

NextGen Climate Action today launched a new six-figure ad campaign that calls on presidential candidates to lay out plans to achieve at least 50 percent clean energy by 2030.

The Western Values Project, a left-leaning watchdog group based in Bozeman, Mont., today announced a six-figure advertising campaign opposing a bill by House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) to reform the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

More than 50 business organizations including the political powerhouse U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Farm Bureau Federation are turning up the pressure on moderate Democrats who voted against a Senate measure last week to scrap and rework the Obama administration's controversial water rule.

With President Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, climate activists who fought the project are turning their sights on a new movement to restrict fossil fuel extraction on federal lands.

The White House may wait months to fill a vacant Republican seat on the powerful Federal Energy Regulatory Commission -- and then use that nomination as a bargaining chip when the time comes, according to sources.

The head of a company that receives millions of federal dollars to provide at-sea watchdogs for commercial fishermen has a long history of advocating for the strict regulations that now benefit his company. Biologist Andrew Rosenberg, the former Northeast regional administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service, is president of MRAG Americas, a consulting company that draws most of its gross revenue from the agency.

Elephants equipped with hoses and water pumps are helping douse forest fires raging across Indonesia and blanketing Southeast Asia in smoke.

Brazilian lawmakers are pushing for tougher mining regulations in the wake of a dam burst that has left six people dead and 22 missing, while prosecutors said that negligence by mine co-owners BHP Billiton Ltd. and Vale SA likely caused the disaster.

Children of mothers exposed to high levels of a chemical previously used to make Teflon may face a higher risk of obesity as they get older, a study found.

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