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A Louisiana flood protection agency is appealing a lawsuit dismissed last year that charged more than 80 oil and natural companies with harming Louisiana's coast.

A coalition of agriculture, building and other industry groups yesterday asked a federal appeals court to reconsider a decision on the Obama administration's contentious Clean Water Rule, requesting that the court's full panel of active judges rehear the case.

New technology lets scientists more easily track wild animals as they move around harsh environments, including atop mountains and beneath oceans.

More scientists are challenging the conventional view that invasive species harm the environment.

Environmental groups based in Southern California are coordinating an effort to monitor and defend protected ocean areas that restrict fishing along the coast.

More than 100 Burmese pythons were killed during a monthlong hunt to help control Florida's invasive snake population, but the contest didn't do much to control the spread of the species, experts said.

An iconic sign welcoming tourists to the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park was stolen over the weekend, just days before officials planned to cover the sign as part of a heated trademark battle between the park's incoming and outgoing concessionaires.

As the Isle de Jean Charles in southern Louisiana sinks slowly into the Gulf of Mexico, a group of Native Americans who have inhabited the island for hundreds of years are planning to move.

A Canadian mining firm isn't abandoning controversial plans for an Arizona copper mine despite hard times for commodity markets and fierce opposition from environmentalists worried about the nation's last wild jaguar.

The El Niño weather pattern was called a "potential Godzilla" long before it hit the West late last year, raising hopes that the phenomenon might ease California's historic drought.

The Senate Agriculture Committee today endorsed a voluntary national standard for labeling food derived from genetically modified crops, but lawmakers hinted at changes before the measure can pass the full Senate.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell faced tough criticism today during a House Natural Resources Committee budget hearing at which Republicans vented obvious frustration at the agency's handling of energy and minerals development on federal lands.

The world is at a "tipping point" for cap and trade as governments from China to California set up carbon trading systems, former Vice President Al Gore said today in a wide-ranging conversation that touched on everything from the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court decision of 2000 to the millennial generation.

Even as a federal district judge yesterday rejected the Fish and Wildlife Service's request to reinstate federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken, state wildlife regulators fired the man in charge of the plan the judge had instead favored to recover the imperiled bird.

The Obama administration and the oil industry scored a big win in court today as federal judges decided a case surrounding lizards that dwell in prime drilling territory.

Ahead of a planned parley at the White House this morning, Senate leaders traded barbs over who should pick the next Supreme Court justice.

If you want to mine coal in the United States, you have to promise to clean up the mess. But the industry's dramatic downturn has raised questions about the ability of companies to follow through with that promise and whether taxpayers will be responsible for returning land and water to pre-mining conditions.

How will the utility of the future successfully serve next-generation customers? During today's OnPoint, Heather Rosentrater, vice president of energy delivery and customer service at Avista, a medium-sized utility operating in Washington state, discusses her company's untraditional approach to developing and implementing innovative grid technologies.

Samarco Mineração SA has agreed to pay at least 20 billion reals ($5 billion) over the course of 15 years in a settlement with the Brazilian government for damage caused by a catastrophic dam collapse at a mine in November 2015, a government source told Reuters yesterday.

Australian Environment Minister Greg Hunt has approved a trial for "ecological thinning" in recently designated Murray Valley National Park in New South Wales.

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