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As officials seek new rules on how farmers can spread or store chicken manure, the industry is fighting back.

Residents are forming associations to bargain with developers looking to buy land rights for wind farms.

A number of maple trees in Worcester, Mass., will be chopped down because of an infestation of Asian long-horned beetles that is plaguing thousands of trees.

Investing with the idea of improving the environmental actions of corporations is catching on among some big pension funds.

A poor global economy and plunging prices for coal and oil are upending plans to curb the use of fossil fuels.

Chemical fire retardant has become crucial in fighting wildfires, but it also harms watersheds and wildlife.

An environmental organization has found high levels of 0f mercury in the blood and feathers of bald eagle chicks in the Catskill Park region of New York.

The Chevrolet Volt is the centerpiece of G.M.’s strategy to convince Congress of the strength of its business plan.

The federal appeals court’s decision came after a finding that the Interior Department had failed to conduct an environmental study before issuing the company’s drilling permit.

A geothermal energy plan to reduce annual carbon dioxide emissions has been continually delayed by a four-year siege of red tape.

A semi-aquatic mammal rare on Long Island for 200 years, has turned up on Nassau County’s North Shore.

The Lawrence Group, a Nashville company, has offered a bid in competition with Florida’s plan to buy 181,000 acres from U.S. Sugar to rescue the Everglades.

From New Mexico to British Columbia, an infestation of mountain pine beetles is turning a blanket of green forest into a blanket of rust red.

With the recent violence in eastern Congo, there are no trained rangers now to protect the mountain gorillas in the region.

The United Nations report was released two weeks before the world’s environmental ministers are to meet to discuss ways to curb greenhouse gases.

A new analysis suggests that subsidies and other policies that encourage conservation methods like drip irrigation can actually increase water consumption.

The agreement, which would open more than 300 miles of the Klamath River, provides a formal framework to defuse deeply emotional arguments that have echoed through the Northwest.

As the world begins to shun dirty fuels, an undaunted Exxon Mobil says oil will power economies for decades.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has instructed state agencies to prepare for rising seas as they plan to replace water pipelines around sewage treatment plants and low-lying airports.

Dr. Keith was a co-inventor of the three-way automotive catalytic converter — a major advance in eliminating the toxic tailpipe emissions that once blanketed cities in smog.