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U.S. Rep. Jim Himes at an event in Greenwich earlier this year. The congressman received high marks on an environmental group's scorecard for legislators.

A wildly-coloured gecko, a fish that looks like a gherkin, and a monkey with an Elvis-like hairstyle are among the more than 200 new species discovered in the Greater Mekong region last year, environmental group WWF said on Monday.

An environmental group says the Great Lakes states have made some progress toward implementing a compact meant to protect the region's waters but have a long way to go.

Interior Department officials said the proposal stems from a court agreement with an environmental group, WildEarth Guardians.

An environmental group wants a federal judge to put a freeze on deepwater oil drilling back in place.

Populations of river herring and shad are being decimated by commercial fishing along the Eastern seaboard, an environmental group claims in a lawsuit filed Monday against fisheries regulators.

An environmental group that wants to block construction of a $3 billion gas pipeline from Wyoming to Oregon filed a lawsuit Friday, saying the pipeline will cut across pristine land and harm endangered fish.

An environmental group is suing the U.S. Forest Service, claiming the agency has violated the Endangered Species Act by failing to uphold protections won more than a decade ago for the Mexican spotted owl in the Southwest.WildEarth Guardian's lawsuit, filed late Wednesday in Tucson, Ariz., asks the court to keep the Forest Service from approving or ...

An environmental group has filed another legal challenge over the federal government's decision not to give the sage grouse protection under the Endangered Species Act.

An environmental group has sued seeking federal protection for a high-elevation pine tree devastated in some places in the Rocky Mountains by beetle infestations and fungus.