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U.S. EPA today released proposed updates to its Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, intended to cut nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions from power plants in 23 Eastern states that contribute to downwind ozone air quality problems.

The Bureau of Land Management late last night announced it is postponing today's scheduled oil and gas lease sale in Salt Lake City to appease activists who are fighting to keep those minerals in the ground.

Wealthy nations have struck a deal to phase out coal financing through export credit agencies, a U.S. source and several environmental activists monitoring the negotiations said.

Norwegian oil giant Statoil ASA today announced it is abandoning plans to drill off Alaska's northwest coast and is closing its Anchorage office, marking the latest blow for advocates of developing the nation's massive energy reserves in the Arctic Ocean.

Does climate change pose the greatest threat to the United States' national security, as presidential candidate and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) recently suggested? During today's OnPoint, Roger Sorkin, writer and director of "The Burden: Fossil Fuel, the Military and National Security" and a fellow with the Truman National Security Project, discusses his research and interviews with current and former military officials on the growing concerns surrounding climate change as a "threat multiplier."

Australian officials called off the potentially $200 million sale of a ranch larger than South Korea today, preventing foreign investors from taking over more of the nation's farmland.

France will ban the import of lion heads, paws and skins, a decision made months after the killing of famous Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe.

A previous conviction of a supervisor at a North Las Vegas, Nev., water system on charges that he poisoned children on his son's football team doesn't warrant further discipline, Nevada regulators have determined.

Tropical diseases spread in U.S.

An array of chemicals are present in dolphin blubber, researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have found.

Neonicotinoid pesticides prevent bees from pollinating apple trees, scientists have found.

U.S. EPA's inspector general will take a new look at the U.S. Chemical Safety Board's use of purchase cards, a program that has been deemed at high risk of abuse in the past.

A longtime aide to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) is heading to the Department of Energy.

Aging real estate, cybersecurity threats, nuclear waste disposal and contract abuses top the management problems at the Energy Department, the agency's internal watchdog has found.

Royal Dutch Shell PLC said yesterday it confirmed more than 100 million barrels of oil equivalent is buried at the company's Kaikias field in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission conducted more audits of oil pipelines, public utilities and natural gas companies this year than last, the agency's investigative arm said today.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature projected polar bear populations will shrink by more than 30 percent by 2050 as more Arctic sea ice disappears due to climate change.

NATIONAL FORESTS

An Alaska federal court judge is quashing contentious document requests and depositions in litigation by developers of the proposed Pebble copper and gold mine in the Bristol Bay region.

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