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Let's see if we can make some sense out of this. Early on in his presidency, Barack Obama made it perfectly clear that the oil-rich lands on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain were off-limits to drilling.

He was a champion of freedom, who spent one-third of his life in a prison cell; a revolutionary who espoused armed conflict against the state, yet became a global icon of peace and moral virtue.

Suzuki doesn't realize he's the cause of the failure as a major player in the group who exploited environmentalism and climate for a political agenda.

Speaking to a conference assembled to discuss the transportation trends of the future, Gov. Paul LePage said Thursday that global climate change could have an upside for Maine.

Another "airpocalypse" has hit China. Many eastern provinces have been shrouded in polluted air since Wednesday.

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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.