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President Obama has signed off on an average 1.3 percent pay raise for federal employees next year.

As expected, President Obama has vetoed two resolutions aimed at killing U.S. EPA's carbon rules for power plants.

It was the summer of 2006, and Italy was on its way to winning soccer's World Cup.

Cows have trampled Western rangelands for the better part of a century, gorging on native plants and making room for exotic grasses.

The Fish and Wildlife Service today announced it will finalize Endangered Species Act protections for lions in Africa and India to confront growing threats from habitat loss, a declining prey base and increased killings from humans.

The many foes of U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan are preparing to attack the Obama administration on a host of legal fronts as the court battle over the embattled rule gets underway.

Actor Nicolas Cage will return a dinosaur skull he bought, so that the United States can return it to the Mongolian government.

The Australian Department of the Environment signed off on the controversial expansion of the Abbot Point coal terminal yesterday but restricted the disposal of nearly 4 million cubic feet of dredging spoils.

Chinese prosecutors have sued a county environmental protection department, accusing the department of "failing to fulfill its regulatory duties" in monitoring a sewage firm.

Deforestation could be contributing to the spread of malaria in Malaysia, according to new research.

A new report has shown a nearly definitive link between the dilapidated water system of Flint, Mich., and the elevated levels of lead found in the blood of the city's children.

Exposure to outdoor pollution appears to increase violent crime, a new study asserts.

Drinking water in more than one-third of wells in a northern Wisconsin community is unsafe, a new study funded by the state Department of Natural Resources shows.

U.S. EPA has promised to address environmentalists' concerns about Kentucky's Clean Water Act oversight by early next year under a new agreement between the agency and advocacy groups.

A $2-billion-per-year contract to manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory will be open to bidding after 2017 after the Department of Energy declined to extend the existing contract.

Training of the federal government's elite corps of senior managers is not up to snuff, according to a new report.

The longtime head of legislative and political affairs for the nation's largest federal worker union, the American Federation of Government Employees, is retiring.

Nestlé SA today said it will stop using caged eggs in its U.S. products by 2020, a move that would make it the largest packaged food company to go cage-free.

Power plants in France have a new feedstock at their disposal -- cheese.

The Navajo Nation is on track to build its first utility-scale solar plant by the end of 2016, bringing much-needed power and jobs to the nation's largest American Indian tribe.

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