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A TransCanada Corp. lawsuit against the U.S. government because of its rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline could make a dangerous precedent for similar legal actions, said prominent environmental attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Louisiana has become the latest state to wade into the legal fray surrounding U.S. EPA's recently adopted ozone standard, warning that it could inflict deep economic harm.

Three nonprofits and a Flint, Mich., resident filed a lawsuit in federal court today aimed at forcing the replacement of Flint's lead-contaminated water lines.

A federal bankruptcy court judge last week agreed with coal-mining company Alpha Natural Resources Inc.'s request to pay 15 executives up to $11.9 million in bonuses, according to court documents.

South Carolina lawmakers are standing behind Gov. Nikki Haley's (R) request for the state's top lawyer to pursue legal action against the Department of Energy over delays in plutonium disposition.

The death of an Atlanta-based meteorologist for the Weather Channel, who was killed Sunday after his car collided into a parking garage wall, was a suicide, the medical examiner's office said yesterday.

A vulture from a nature reserve in Israel was caught in Lebanon on suspicion of spying after it flew across the border with a transmitter attached to it, Israel's nature reserve authority has said.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell's move to shift the nation's approach on fighting wildfires across the West has resulted in one of the most successful policy changes on federal lands in about 80 years, public lands experts and scientists say.

Following last week's announcement that Yosemite National Park plans to change several of its trademarked names to avoid infringing on a departing concession company's intellectual property, Delaware North Cos. Inc. filed an amended 25-page complaint in U.S. Court of Federal Claims on Monday, blasting the move as a hardball tactic.

Two potential coal mining projects in the West will be reviewed today, the first proposals to come up since the Obama administration implemented a moratorium on new coal leases.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is withdrawing its proposal to expand a marine sanctuary off Hawaii after opposition from state officials who saw it as federal overreach.

The Bureau of Land Management for the second time in two years has rejected a proposed land swap with the owners of a sprawling private ranch that would have opened public access to more than 50,000 acres in central Montana's Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument.

The energy research and policy group Great Plains Institute today named a new director of government affairs and communications.

Michigan lawmakers said today they would unveil a bill to clarify U.S. EPA's authority in notifying the public of the risk of lead contamination in drinking water.

A group of utilities and energy and technology companies are forming a consortium to advance commercialization of small modular reactors, which are viewed as a potential solution for energy challenges such as bringing baseload power to remote locations.

Two-thirds of Americans view the Obama administration's moratorium on new federal coal leasing favorably, according to polling commissioned by the Center for American Progress.

Millions of Americans watched as National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis rode horseback in the Rose Parade on New Year's Day.

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee leaders said today they expect amendment votes on the panel's bipartisan energy package to begin tomorrow, with the debate likely to continue into next week.

Foes of U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan are warning the Supreme Court that failing to halt the rule now could effectively hand the Obama administration a victory before legal challenges are settled.

BURNS, Ore. -- The 25-day occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge took a violent turn last night when police shot and killed 55-year-old militant LaVoy Finicum and arrested Ammon and Ryan Bundy and six of the group's other leaders.

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