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Concerns over cattle grazing on federal lands -- which critics are calling "welfare ranching" and which played a key role in the recent Oregon standoff -- are hitting livestock owners in California close to home.

Court documents in the case against Cliven Bundy have shown that the Bureau of Land Management made several tactical mistakes in its 2014 standoff with the defiant rancher.

Federal judges appear unlikely to side with animal rights advocates suing the government over hunting permits for endangered species.

Rick Healy has joined McDermott Will & Emery LLP.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) has agreed to testify to Congress on the Flint water crisis, but Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee want the Republican chief executive to turn over more of his administration's emails ahead of the March hearing.

A special agent for EPA's internal watchdog forgot something important after a trip to the bathroom -- a gun.

A consequential energy case is on the Supreme Court's docket this week as the justices hear their first arguments since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

An amendment to a House bipartisan sportsmen's bill would limit Second Amendment rights for anyone convicted of occupying a federal building or brandishing weapons at a federal official -- a measure aimed at penalizing members of the Bundy family and their followers.

A federal appeals court panel today said that it will rule on challenges to the Obama administration's hot-button Clean Water Rule.

With technology innovation receiving a boost in President Obama's fiscal 2017 budget, what is the future of innovation as part of the United States' climate strategy? During today's OnPoint, Ellen Williams, director of the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), discusses the role innovative technology solutions will play in the United States' energy and climate future. She previews next week's ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit and talks about several technologies that will be on display at the conference.

Ruptures along Peru's main oil line have spewed 3,000 barrels of crude into an Amazonian region, polluting two rivers that native communities rely on for drinking water.

A billionaire venture capitalist is asking California for $30 million plus other costs for an easement for a road over his property to a beach near San Francisco.

Oregon lawmakers yesterday amended one of the state's most far-reaching pieces of environmental legislation in decades in an attempt to give state regulators more oversight and to rid coal from Oregon's energy supply.

A California legislative committee yesterday unanimously approved a bill to extend a moratorium on operations at the Aliso Canyon gas storage facility until more testing is conducted.

The World Health Organization's Zika virus response team has said the mosquito-borne virus will be "way down" in time for the Olympics, which are set to begin in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 5.

In addition to adversely affecting the environment, climate change can have notable personal health consequences.

An overwhelming number of U.S. citizens said they are in favor of using genetically engineered mosquitoes to fight the spread of the Zika virus, a new survey found.

Sixty years ago, the SS Jacob Luckenbach sank after colliding with another ship 17 miles southwest of the Golden Gate Bridge in California. While the 469-foot freighter can no longer be seen from shore, its presence is felt in the water as it continues to leak hundreds of thousands of gallons of bunker oil.

Industry representatives again assailed U.S. EPA's new ozone standard this morning, saying that "background" levels of the gas will leave Arizona and other Western states struggling to comply.

One hundred employees at U.S. EPA's San Francisco Bay-area headquarters are saying the inside air quality in the Region 9 building is so bad they are getting sick by going to work.

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