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New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas (D) late yesterday filed a lawsuit in state district court over the Volkswagen AG emissions cheating scandal that has affected millions of cars globally.

The Obama administration and interest groups yesterday urged the Supreme Court not to consider an industry challenge to a landmark federal cleanup plan for the Chesapeake Bay.

Conservative advocacy groups sued the Obama administration yesterday for internal communications regarding how the Interior Department developed a proposal to increase protections for streams near coal mines.

A federal judge in Alabama has thrown out a lawsuit contesting one of the nation's biggest and most expensive highway projects on environmental grounds.

The world's oceans could be filled with more plastic than fish by 2050 if waste disposal continues at status quo, according to a report released yesterday by the World Economic Forum.

Conservation groups and the mining industry want significant changes to the Obama administration's proposal to remove 10 million acres of federal lands within prime greater sage grouse habitat from new mining claims.

DENVER -- Federal appeals court judges yesterday appeared sympathetic to a conservation group's push to sue in a state court to block Utah's claims over thousands of roads crisscrossing federal lands.

Four congressmen yesterday toured the nuclear fuel facility at the Savannah River Site and put out a call for President Obama to fund it in his fiscal 2017 budget request due out next month.

The mayor of Flint, Mich., appealed to state and federal officials for help in coping with a public health disaster linked to lead in the city's drinking water system.

Climate activists are pushing for changes to the federal oil and gas leasing program in the wake of the Obama administration's decision to freeze and scrutinize future coal leases.

House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) has a hired a senior writer from the Institute for Faith, Work and Economics as the panel's new press secretary.

A former senior aide to Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman James Inhofe (R-Okla.) has signed up to lobby for a liquefied natural gas terminal.

Business interests are urging Senate leaders to bring the Energy and Natural Resources Committee's bipartisan energy bill to the floor for a vote, citing the measure's efficiency provisions as an economic boon.

House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) today released a long-awaited draft bill for 18 million acres of public lands in eastern Utah, drawing praise from state and energy industry officials but strong opposition from conservation groups and skepticism from a top House Democrat.

Last year was the world's warmest year ever recorded, beating out 2014 in average temperatures over land and ocean surfaces, according to both NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Supreme Court justices appeared torn today as they grappled with a complicated case about whether the government can bar an Alaskan moose hunter from using his hovercraft in a national preserve.

Cattlemen in southeast Oregon are quietly negotiating with the Bureau of Land Management to restore grazing privileges to a pair of ranchers serving five-year prison sentences for setting fires on federal lands.

As the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge stretches into its third week, it's becoming clear the armed occupants don't have a legal leg to stand on.