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California's Air Resources Board is taking Southern California regulators to task for failing to adopt stronger standards to control emissions from industrial facilities.

For seven years, an anonymous blogger, who calls herself "a low-level civil servant," has worked to decipher dense technical reports on California water policy while offering smart insights into the ways of bureaucrats and playfully mocking elected officials and industry leaders.

A Wyoming company that has planned for decades to built a new power plant in the state has not started construction and owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes.

Bird watchers, hikers and environmentalists historically have been the attendees at environmental gatherings in upstate New York, but more recently, the events are drawing the attention of another group: religious leaders.

The ongoing methane leak at a natural gas storage facility in Southern California is fueling calls by environmentalists for national methane regulations on the oil and gas sector.

The Supreme Court today declined to review an appeal from California cities and water districts claiming that federal protections for a small threatened fish imperil their water supply.

Protests prompted a Zimbabwean professional hunter to call off raffling a lion hunt at a Las Vegas hunting convention next month.

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has announced it is ending elephant acts a year and a half early and will retire its touring animals in May amid increasing scrutiny about animal mistreatment.

The Army Corps of Engineers yesterday began opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway in Louisiana, marking the first in a series of efforts to monitor the effect of the Mississippi River's nutrient-dense water as it flows into Lake Pontchartrain.

As the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge enters its second week, the mother of the group's leader reached out to supporters to send supplies, including warm blankets, toiletries and cigarettes.

The Oregon sheriff with responsibility for the area where a militant group is holed up on a federal wildlife refuge is learning how to handle the public spotlight.

Completing a bison survey in late July 2013 at an Iowa national wildlife refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Karen Viste-Sparkman spotted an injured member of the herd, a patch above its shoulder scorched off and raw flesh seeping through blackened, charred skin.

The Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it will remove from the endangered species list a Texas shrub that is more widely spread than previously thought.

A bipartisan group of New England lawmakers recently voiced support for decreasing the number of independent watchdogs on groundfish boats, calling it essential to the "future viability" of the fishery.

The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is taking the Obama administration to task for its implementation of the Freedom of Information Act.

Dan Boren, a former Democratic congressman from one of Oklahoma's most politically connected families, said Friday that he's considering a run for the state's open governor's seat in 2018.

Occidental Petroleum Corp. has hired a top accounting firm to lobby on the tax credit for carbon capture and sequestration.

Former Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) has joined K Street giant Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.

Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman James Inhofe (R-Okla.) endorsed Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's bid for the GOP presidential nomination, pointing to Rubio's "shared, similar values" on a range of issues from foreign policy to education.

The Department of Energy will work to craft a coherent strategy to dispose of nuclear waste and spent materials in 2016.

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