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Environmentalists aren't likely to succeed in their lawsuit challenging a 35-year-old U.S. EPA clean air rule, federal judges signaled today.

Snake hunters are gathering in South Florida for the 2016 Python Challenge, a monthlong competition to rid the Everglades ecosystem of as many invasive Burmese pythons as possible.

A California man died Tuesday while wingsuiting in northern Arizona, according to local authorities.

A video posted to Facebook of a militiaman dramatically sweeping a box of dildos off a table has brought plenty of attention to the armed occupation of a southwestern Oregon federal wildlife refuge -- but for all the wrong reasons, according to public relations experts.

The state of Idaho acknowledged that it broke the terms of an agreement with the Forest Service authorizing it to use helicopters to track elk in a wilderness area when it also captured and placed tracking collars on four wolves.

Arch Coal Inc.'s bankruptcy filing this week reignited concerns about the ability of coal companies to pay for mine cleanups and honor other environmental promises.

President Obama may have exaggerated the role the 2009 economic stimulus bill played in helping to expand the use of renewable energy in the United States, some experts contend.

In its first independent expenditure of 2016, the League of Conservation Voters today launched a digital ad in support of Democrat Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign -- and attacking Donald Trump's statements about climate change.

President Obama yesterday met in Nebraska with a high school English teacher who penned him a letter a year ago with worries about the future of the planet, according to the White House.

When candidates took their podiums in debates during the 2008 presidential primary season, they fielded questions on whether big oil companies were gouging Americans at the pump, why the United States didn't make better use of nuclear energy and how they were personally improving the environment.

A pair of Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation yesterday to raise the amount of money oil and gas companies pay the federal government to drill on public land.

The bipartisan energy package that passed the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee last summer is in line to see floor time, but the exact timing isn't yet set, according to a Senate GOP aide.

Arch Coal Inc.'s bankruptcy filing this week has raised the hopes of Montana ranchers and environmentalists eager to end a decadeslong battle over a proposed railway and $86 million mine.

The head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce today said the business group plans a multipronged front for pushing back against President Obama's regulatory agenda in his final year, with a major focus on U.S. EPA.

The Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed a framework to guide its efforts in the coming years on evaluating imperiled plants and animals for protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Federal judges don’t appear to be buying the Obama administration's arguments that a lawsuit seeking access a top White House official’s private emails should be tossed out.

Will carbon trading prevail as states work to comply with the Clean Power Plan? On today's The Cutting Edge, ClimateWire reporter Elizabeth Harball discusses the details of a new ClimateWire review of high-level state planning discussions on the power plan.

For the first time since 1974, no one made it to the top of Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain, last year.

A huge fire erupted after a blast hit pipelines connecting oil storage tanks with a refinery in the city of Aden, according to a Yemeni government spokesman.

After several barges broke loose this morning in New Orleans, the Coast Guard closed a part of the engorged Mississippi River.

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