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Theme park operator SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment said yesterday it would stop sending employees undercover to infiltrate the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

The California drought has brought many unexpected oddities to the region, but none perhaps as strange as conditions found in the Santa Ana River.

Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam yesterday asked federal officials to leave Virginia waters off the list of potential oil and gas exploration sites along the Atlantic coast, formalizing his anti-drilling position.

PHOENIX -- States in the Mountain West could face challenges meeting U.S. EPA's new ozone standard thanks to background levels of the gas, agency officials acknowledged at a workshop here this week, as federal and local officials rallied against the lower standard over concerns their states will be unable to comply.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) today threw his support for the Republican presidential nomination to former rival Donald Trump.

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers slammed the Army Corps of Engineers for having "surrendered" to U.S. EPA in their joint development of the Obama administration's hot-button Clean Water Rule.

With the White House on tap to release dozens of economically significant rules in President Obama's final year, Republicans yesterday unveiled a bill intended to block "midnight rules."

The House today voted 242-161 to pass the "Sportsmen's Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act," a controversial package of measures that supporters have dubbed the "SHARE Act" because it seeks to increase access to public lands for hunters and anglers.

Nearly three years after he left the country, Pebble LP will get to question former U.S. EPA scientist Phil North about his efforts to block the company's proposed gold and copper mine in the Bristol Bay region of southwestern Alaska.

When the Supreme Court took the unusual step this month to freeze U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan, many wondered whether it would be bombarded with bids to block environmental rules.

National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis is being stripped of his responsibility to oversee the agency's ethics program after publishing an unauthorized book with a nonprofit group that operates stores in numerous national parks.

Cliven Bundy is behind bars, but his cows remain at large. The Bundy herd, last estimated at 1,000, has trampled sensitive soils and Native American artifacts, attacked a Nevada wildlife official and run roughshod over a community garden and a golf course, the Bureau of Land Management said. But removing the ornery, battle-tested cattle will be expensive, logistically difficult and potentially dangerous -- especially if Bundy's supporters try to resist.

Criminal action has been taken against three former executives at Tokyo Electric Power Co., or TEPCO, stemming from the 2011 triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that led to death and injury.

A new video produced by an environmental group shows a dystopian future in which Chinese residents have grown long mustaches to filter out smog.

Six rescue workers were killed yesterday as they tried to reach 26 stranded miners in northern Russia following a methane explosion that set off a series of underground fires.

A group of 75 goats assigned to eat invasive species at a public park in Salem, Ore., have been relieved of their duties.

A U.S. state and commonwealth are struggling to contain the spread of the Zika virus, while the disease's prevalence in Brazil is causing some athletes competing in this year's Summer Olympics to delay conception and warn away family members.

Residents in Hoosick Falls, N.Y., are finding their lives upended by reports of a toxic chemical in the village's water supply.

U.S. EPA is set to launch a 30-day public comment period on recently proposed attainment designations for its 2010 sulfur dioxide standard.

Lockheed Martin Corp. has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a 17-year-old case involving claims the company exposed workers and their families to harmful radiation levels at a uranium processing plant in Paducah, Ky.

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