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Alaska has finished buying out TransCanada Corp.'s stake in a large gas project for about $64.6 million.

The nation's leading producer of canned pumpkins is pointing to climate change as the likely culprit behind a shortage in supply this year.

Scientists and climate change activists are touting new battery technologies as critical for weaning the world off fossil fuels.

This year is on track to be the warmest ever recorded, thanks to a combination of El Niño and human-generated climate change, a U.N. agency announced today.

A Peruvian farmer sued Germany's biggest electricity producer, RWE AG, yesterday in German court for damages "proportional to the company's contribution to climate change," according to an environmental group advising the farmer.

Murray Energy Corp. and U.S. EPA are making last-minute arguments in their fight over the company's wish to depose Administrator Gina McCarthy as part of ongoing litigation.

Jungle clear-cutting for development and agriculture, the bush meat trade and illegal wildlife trafficking have put more than half the world's 703 primate species and subspecies at risk of extinction, experts reported yesterday.

A $1 billion Carlsbad desalination plant slated to be fully operational next month will likely exacerbate a peculiar problem facing San Diego, one of the few places in the state that has a surplus of water.

A Nevada federal judge won't decide whether to block government rules to protect the greater sage grouse before Christmas.

Officials at two public lands getaways in the Southwest are opting to join outdoor retailer REI's #OptOutside campaign, designed to get people to foresake Black Friday shopping for time outdoors.

A bipartisan effort to reform the nation's criminal justice laws is showing signs of coming apart amid a dispute over how the reforms would affect white-collar crime and environmental prosecutions.

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx yesterday said he is cautiously optimistic that Congress may pass the highway reauthorization bill being considered in conference committee.

For nearly two decades, five Northwest Indian tribes have been fighting the federal government for the return of 8,500-year-old remains of a man found on the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Wash.

North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper (D) yesterday began attacking Gov. Pat McCrory (R), whose job he is seeking, for suing U.S. EPA over the Clean Power Plan.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican presidential candidate, gave tepid support to the federal renewable fuel standard yesterday in Iowa as he campaigns throughout the state ahead of the Feb. 1 caucus.

Local government officials and business interests are seeing a groundswell of opposition to the Obama administration's proposal to open parts of the outer continental shelf off the Atlantic Seaboard to oil and gas drilling, and they want everyone inside the Washington, D.C., Beltway to know it.

Industry lobbyists see rolling back U.S. EPA's Water of the U.S. rule as a viable policy rider for the omnibus appropriations measure under assembly, according to a recent conference call that was secretly recorded and leaked yesterday.

Californians hoping El Niño storms this winter will end the state's historic drought should start looking further ahead to its devilish -- and much drier -- sister, La Niña.

Europe isn't going to make it easy for the Obama administration to avoid U.S. Senate approval of a climate change accord, the European Union's top negotiator indicated this morning.

U.S. EPA asked a federal court yesterday to vacate and remand the registration of a controversial herbicide, citing new information that could have led the agency to a different conclusion on its decision to approve the product last year.

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