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This April 18, 2013 file photo shows a golden eagle flying over a wind turbine on Duke energy's top of the world wind farm in Converse County Wyo.

The American Legislative Exchange Council may be hemorrhaging members and grappling with a funding crisis , but that hasn't hampered its ambitions.

The firm will ensure that its plantations and suppliers will provide products that are free from links to deforestation or the abuse of human rights and local communities.

Historically, Monroe residents complain about neighboring Trumbull allowing commercial development on its borders along routes 25 and 111.

The water level in the Dique La Quebrada, the reservoir seven km from RA o Ceballos, has never been lower.

A heavy fog engulfing Shanghai has caused flight cancellations at the city's international airport as air pollution reached the worst levels since government monitoring began.

Hard-to-predict sudden changes to Earth's environment are more worrisome than climate change's bigger but more gradual impacts, a panel of scientists advising the federal government concluded Tuesday.

In its most recent assessment released this fall, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that warming of the Earth's climate system is both unequivocal and unprecedented, a conclusion that rests on multiple and independent sources of data.

This is a guest post by Marshall Peterson, a freelance writer, blogger and environmental activist.

Oregon U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley has thrust himself into the middle of one of the most contentious debates in the region - the benefit of manufacturing jobs versus the environmental impacts of the manufacturing companies.

Tom Corbett, governor of Pennsylvania, speaks at the Bloomberg Link Economic Summit in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, April 30, 2013.

Valero's Benicia refinery rail project would give the region's refineries a way to bring in oil from states such as North Dakota.

The Canadian government is attempting to save the quickly disappearing greater sage grouse by restricting construction and loud industrial noise near its habitat during certain times of the year.

Sharon Rushton of Mill Valley is chairperson of Sustainable TamAlmonte, a group of Tamalpais Valley and Almonte leaders and active residents.

Republican Congressman Ken Calvert, who represents the cities of Lake Elsinore, Murrieta, Wildomar and other local jurisdictions, was named on Nov. 13 chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies.

When an interest group-let's say the National Cattlemen's Beef Association-supports a bill because it will " reduce the paperwork backlog ," you can pretty much guarantee that another group-let's say American taxpayers-are poised to be fleeced.

So the New York Times shuts down its environment desk and its Green Blog this year - a move widely panned as " a horrible decision ."

Your home is your identity and when you consider home interiors, all should be as beautiful as the outside of your home.

This summer, Latino families filed suit to force the Environmental Protection Agency to prevent discriminatory pesticide practices that allow children to be exposed to high levels of harmful chemicals.