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San Diego decisively moved yesterday to slash its greenhouse gas emissions and transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2035.

The National Zoo's youngest giant panda cub is growing rapidly and appears ready for his public debut next month, according to zoo officials.

A Texas facility that has long housed chimpanzees for medical research will soon have to find new homes for its elderly animals, after its federal funding was pulled last month.

The wolf harvest on Alaska's second-largest island was abruptly halted yesterday by wildlife regulators who are facing criticism for having let it begin at all.

Two batches of crop seeds will be added to more than 860,000 samples already placed within a "doomsday vault" constructed in an Arctic mountainside.

A government watchdog yesterday highlighted inconsistencies and unanswered questions about the National Park Service's investigation of a 9-year-old boy's death at Lassen Volcanic National Park in northeastern California.

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez (D) can appeal his indictment on corruption charges, federal judges ruled.

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom unanimously rejected Donald Trump's latest appeal to halt construction of an offshore wind farm within view of his Scottish golf resort.

Journalists and advocates of open government discussed their problems gaining access to the Obama administration in a meeting yesterday with White House spokesman Josh Earnest.

Transportation programs benefited from appropriations delays, with the fiscal 2016 omnibus spending deal announced overnight increasing funding for highway and transit programs over earlier congressional proposals.

Coal and mining interests failed to secure a rider in the omnibus sending bill to roll back the Obama administration's proposals with respect to climate change, their top priority, but they did score some victories.

The Army Corps of Engineers would get a 10 percent funding increase in fiscal 2016, with fattened accounts for new construction and operations and maintenance under the omnibus spending bill unveiled by lawmakers late last night.

A $1.15 trillion fiscal 2016 spending bill released overnight is being hailed as a win for energy programs and the nation's national labs, as well as research into advanced fossil and nuclear technologies.

Congress' sweeping funding deal offers perks for the sage grouse and the National Park Service and contains almost no policy riders that would hamstring the Obama administration's agenda on public lands, energy and wildlife.

The omnibus fiscal 2016 spending deal unveiled by congressional leaders last night would allow the Obama administration to go forward with a key international climate policy while keeping U.S. EPA's budget level.

The House this morning passed another short-term continuing resolution to keep the federal government from shutting down at midnight, giving lawmakers until Tuesday to pass a yearlong spending package.

What impact could next year's legal and regulatory landscape have on the power and energy sectors? During today's OnPoint, James Rubin, a partner at Dorsey & Whitney, who previously served for 15 years in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice, discusses the pending legal and regulatory U.S. EPA-related actions expected in 2016. Rubin details the hurdles facing the Clean Power Plan, mercury rule and methane regulations.

Singapore today announced one of its largest ivory seizures in the past decade, with the discovery of 1,100 pounds of ivory.

Chinese police have arrested 10 company officials on charges of fabricating pollution data, the country's environment ministry said today.

Nineteen coal miners are presumed dead after a gas explosion and raging fire occurred yesterday afternoon at a coal mine in Hegang in northeastern China.

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