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A donation from a private charitable foundation will "unlock" a rugged, backcountry wilderness area in northeast New Mexico, allowing access to the general public after years of congressional and grass-roots efforts to open the land-locked area.

The White House today announced a series of commitments from dozens of utilities and groups to help improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

California's Democratic senators today said they planned to offer an amendment to broad energy legislation to address the ongoing methane leak in the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles County.

Interest groups are floating dueling letters about a provision that would repeal a plan to reduce fossil fuel use in federal buildings that is included in a major energy package being debated on the Senate floor.

For the last year, state of Michigan employees in Flint have been drinking purified and bottled water provided by the Department of Technology, Management and Budget.

A "culture of corruption" as well as an "arrogant attitude" among state and federal agency officials contributed to the crisis in Flint, Mich., according to the engineering professor who helped uncover the high levels of lead contamination in the city's drinking water last year.

Flint Mayor Karen Weaver inherited a searing public health crisis when she took office last month.

U.S. EPA, often under fire from its Capitol Hill and industry critics for overstepping its authority, now finds itself in the cross-hairs for not using its authority soon enough.

BURNS, Ore. -- The arrested leader of the monthlong occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge yesterday urged the four remaining militants to surrender peacefully, as police continued to block access in and out of the refuge headquarters.

BURNS, Ore. -- As the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge winds down, employees who manage its 188,000 acres of marshes, lakes, alkali flats and rolling sagebrush hills are eager to return to the office.

The man in the video emerges from his truck into knee-deep snow, hands in the air as he approaches police officers who have their guns at the ready. Then he reaches toward his belt. Police shoot, and LaVoy Finicum falls to the ground, his body lying in the snow for 10 minutes as police secure the surrender of the truck's remaining occupants.

As states work behind the scenes to craft compliance strategies for U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan, legal action against the rule is now front and center. Is the latest move by petitioners requesting the Supreme Court consider a stay of the rule a long shot? During today's OnPoint, Jeff Holmstead, a partner at Bracewell and a former assistant administrator for air and radiation at EPA, discusses the outlook for legal proceedings on the rule and explains why he believes carbon trading makes the rule more economically viable.

A British helicopter pilot shot down by elephant poachers in Tanzania on Friday saved his colleague's life before the helicopter crashed by giving him time to jump out.

Multiple bombings at Nigeria's Agip oil pipelines have caused thousands of barrels of oil to run into waterways, farms and fishing areas in southern Bayelsa state.

The Chinese government unveiled its first oil spill emergency response plan to be put into effect by 2020, a strategy that works to address risks from offshore disasters.

A large winter storm hit Southern California yesterday, killing one driver and felling trees and power lines across the state.

The Department of Environmental Protection in West Virginia has mandated another review of a drinking water rule, causing lobbying groups to once again try to persuade regulators to drop a policy that protects all state rivers and streams as potential sources of drinking water.

North Dakota officials said Friday that a pipeline at an oil production site leaked about 300 barrels of crude oil and salt water -- a byproduct of hydraulic fracturing -- onto the land in the western part of the state, some of which made its way into a creek.

Toxic emissions from power plants and other energy-related sources cost the United States an estimated $131 billion in 2011, a figure that nonetheless represented a substantial drop from 2002, according to a new study that credits tighter federal regulation for much of the difference.

The Obama administration is starting the next phase of implementing its rule to protect coal miners from black lung disease a week after prevailing against an industry challenge in appeals court.

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