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Regulators are closing in on a controversial solution to the country’s looming power crisis.

Operators hope the ship – the first built in Japan in 73 years – will revive interest in whale meat and prop up the ailing industry, which has been surviving on subsidies.

An environmental group has sued the U.S. Energy Department over its decision to award over $1 billion to help keep California’s last nuclear power plant running beyond a planned closure that was set for 2025. The move opens another battlefront in the fight over the future of Diablo Canyon’s twin reactors. Friends of the Earth, in a complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, argued that the award to plant operator Pacific Gas & Electric last year was based...

Conservationists and environmental groups are sounding the alarm over a measure that they say will unravel the protections for fishing and hunting in Georgia that were fast-tracked last session. The bill, sponsored by Waycross Republican Rep. James Burchett, has been presented as a follow-up fix after the agriculture industry and private property owners objected to […] The post Anglers and paddlers closely watch bill intended to make some streambeds off limits in Georgia appeared first on...

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New teeth have been added to the net-zero emission goals outlined in San Diego's ambitious climate action plan after city leaders reached a settlement agreement in two lawsuits from environmental groups.

Ruling highlights need for broader safeguards under Species at Risk Act

Recent findings may have debunked a key claim surrounding the benefit of wolf reintroduction programs

A 1,300-acre stretch of land east of Chula Vista previously slated for development will become permanent wildlands after California purchased the property for $60 million as part of a settlement agreement ending a years-long fight to block the project.

Neighbors and environmental groups continue to decry the proposed plans by a developer to build a large amphitheater in Dripping Springs on Fitzhugh Road.