"Exxon Mobil Corp. has applied to the Treasury Department for a waiver from U.S. sanctions on Russia in a bid to resume its joint venture with state oil giant PAO Rosneft, according to people familiar with the matter."
"In the same year that Congress voted to make bison the national mammal, Yellowstone National Park had its second largest cull ever — reducing the herd by more than 1,200 animals."
"Climate displacement is becoming one of the world’s most powerful — and destabilizing — geopolitical forces."
"An Eastern Kentucky coal mining company on Tuesday announced its plans to build what could become the state's largest solar farm on a reclaimed mountaintop strip mine, promising jobs for displaced coal miners and energy production."
"A White House meeting that was to help determine whether the United States should withdraw from the Paris climate accord has been postponed, an administration official said on Tuesday."
"Never before had so much lumber been denied entry at a U.S. port on evidence that it was harvested illegally. Houston customs agents, acting on intelligence from their Peruvian counterparts, halted 1,770 metric tons of Amazon rainforest wood — enough to cover three football fields."
"Conservationists have lodged a formal request for the US government to list giraffes as endangered in a bid to prevent what they call the “silent extinction” of the world’s tallest land animal."
"What’s more amazing than kissing a frog and getting a handsome prince? How about scraping off a bit of the mucus layer that covers his skin and finding in it a potent weapon against influenza?"
"A big march in Washington this month will get headlines, but the real action, green groups believe, needs to make waves on election days."
"Gov. Rick Snyder praised the city of Flint’s plan to sign a long-term deal with Detroit's water system after the city's departure from it four years ago set in motion one of the nation’s worst drinking water crises."
