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Plans to expand a wilderness area in the rugged mountains of central New Mexico have run into opposition from some local residents, mountain bikers and a local ski area.

No one was at work when armed protesters seized control of Fish and Wildlife Service buildings in remote eastern Oregon because escalating threats and anti-government rhetoric had already shut down many local federal offices.

A marine sanctuary off the North Carolina coast would get bigger under a proposal from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that aims to protect more shipwrecks.

The Mississippi Valley Division of the Army Corps of Engineers has given the go-ahead to open a New Orleans floodway on Sunday for the first time in nearly five years.

Holly Shulman, a top Democratic spokeswoman, is joining the Sierra Club's communications team.

When Sarah Chamberlain, president of the Republican Main Street Partnership, launched a cross-country listening tour with members of Congress last year, she envisioned a female-focused outreach and education effort.

Hillary Clinton is attempting to convince voters that she'll pick better Supreme Court justices for "the future of our planet" and climate change policies than Republicans running for president.

A coalition of environmental groups wants a federal court to block a plan approved this week by the Forest Service to allow as many as 120 helicopter landings in a remote Idaho wilderness area, saying the plan violates federal law.

Southern Co. subsidiary Mississippi Power is "evaluating" the startup schedule for the Kemper County Energy Facility, the nation's first planned coal-fired power plant to capture the majority of its carbon dioxide emissions, according to company filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The federal workforce grew over the past year, marking a change from years of decline in the number of agency employees.

BURNS, Ore. -- Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward last night met briefly with Ammon Bundy, the ringleader of the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, to urge him and his friends to leave.

In an effort to achieve energy self-sufficiency, India is preparing to reopen commercial coal mining to private companies for the first time in 40 years.

China's capital city announced plans to close 2,500 small polluting businesses this year in an effort to curb pollution, according to a report made by state news agency Xinhua on Saturday.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday that in 2013 three infected elephants transmitted tuberculosis to seven employees at the Oregon Zoo in Portland.

California surfers are riding some big waves in the wake of recent El Niño-driven storms.

Investor Robert Herjavec on the television show "Shark Tank" has promised to invest $100,000 in a startup that's selling recovered food in exchange for 10 percent of the company.

Homing pigeons -- birds that rely on environmental factors for navigation -- were able to fly faster on days when the air quality was worse, a new study published in Scientific Reports has found.

After his own children experienced fits of coughing spells that were improved by using an air purifier, Illah Nourbakhsh, a university professor of robotics, led the Carnegie Mellon University Robotic Institute's CREATE Lab in developing an affordable air-quality monitor in 2014 known as Speck.

Virginia regulators will decide this week if Dominion Virginia Power can move water from coal ash ponds into a nearby creek as long as it treats the water first to remove pollutants.

A tiny Pennsylvania town is trying to prevent new coal ash disposal sites within its borders.

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