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Attorneys general are more likely today to get involved in litigation against federal regulations that they see as impinging on their states' rights than they were a decade ago, Nevada's Republican attorney general said today.

BOULDER, Colo. -- When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell urged governors nationwide to "just say no" to U.S. EPA's new carbon emissions rules earlier this year, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) offered what he called a "thoughtful" response publicly declining the Republican's suggestion.

The Food and Drug Administration today issued a major new set of food safety rules, including a contentious provision aimed at keeping water contaminated with fecal matter from coming into contact with edible produce.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's new plan for revitalizing coal communities is the latest in a string of proposals aimed at hard-hit Appalachia.

The Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it would remove the Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel from the endangered species list, declaring that the species is no longer at risk of extinction.

Forests in the United States are projected to lose their ability to absorb the nation's carbon dioxide emissions over the next 25 years, which would force the country to pursue deeper emissions cuts in other sectors to achieve its climate change goals, according to a study published yesterday by two Forest Service scientists.

With many countries placing conditions in their intended nationally determined contributions that emissions reduction targets are contingent on having access to international climate markets, how will emissions trading discussions shape next month's climate negotiations in Paris? During today's OnPoint, Dirk Forrister, president and CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association, discusses the framework that he believes needs to be established in the Paris agreement to facilitate trading systems and linking.

Brazilian Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira called the collapse of two dams at a iron ore mine, which has cut off drinking water to a quarter of a million people and increased sediment in downstream waterways, an "environmental catastrophe."

At least seven people were killed on Saturday in eastern France during a train derailment that caused some of the train's cars to plunge into a canal during a test run.

Authorities safely corralled two zebras that escaped from a circus visiting Philadelphia yesterday.

An increasing number of Alaskans will drive beyond the reach of the legendary ice road truckers to connect remote North Slope villages to the outside world -- as soon as winter truly takes hold.

Native American leaders in Maine are not crossing their fingers that next year will be any better after their historically strained relationship with the state government sank to new lows in 2015.

A plan for the city of San Antonio to build a 142-mile pipeline to tap a central Texas aquifer is raising questions over what would happen to the region's groundwater.

Though state officials have said anyone could have received the same free map from state oil and gas regulators that Gov. Jerry Brown (D) received, records show no one else has been given this kind of assistance.

Four families filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Detroit on Friday against state and Flint, Mich., officials over water that has left children with increased levels of lead in their bodies.

People with heart disease are at increased risk of having a major heart attack when air quality is even just moderately bad, according to a new study.

North Carolina's Department of Environmental Quality could lose its authority to regulate industrial water and air pollution if it does not change a new policy, U.S. EPA warned last week.

Oil drillers are struggling to curb theft -- from raw crude disappearing from wells to stolen machinery -- which has worsened during the industry's slowdown.

New York state's government has denied the Indian Point Energy Center a permit for use of the Hudson River, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) tries to force the closure of the 40-year-old nuclear plant.

Apple unveiled plans over the weekend to power all of its Singapore operations with renewable energy -- the first project of its type in Southeast Asia and part of a broader clean energy push this year from the technology giant.

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