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The Idaho House passed legislation yesterday directed at increasing the speed of natural gas and oil production by tweaking the industry's deadlines and decisionmaking processes.

Virginia student environmental activists hunkered down in the state environmental regulatory agency's main entrance yesterday in protest against an electric utility company's plan to release treated coal ash water into waterways.

An aging Florida nuclear power plant has been leaking a radioactive isotope into Biscayne National Park, according to a study released yesterday by Miami-Dade County officials.

Office of Personnel Management acting Director Beth Cobert has advocated for caution when sending federal employees to areas affected by the Zika virus, though she did not outright ban such travel.

Eliot Brenner, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's longtime top spokesman, will step down this summer.

Illinois and Indiana regulators have affirmed that a Peabody Energy Corp. subsidiary can guarantee $255 million in coal mine cleanup liabilities despite mounting concerns about the entire company being near-bankrupt.

A western Colorado rancher is headed to jail after he sprayed for mosquitoes on his land in the years after his wife nearly died from West Nile virus.

Last month's acquittal of the supervisor of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which exploded in 2010, killing 11 rig workers and launching the nation's worst oil spill, ended a six-year, multimillion-dollar legal battle with the federal government that will be revered in legal history, according to experts.

At U.S. EPA's request, a federal appellate court has placed a four-month hold on proceedings in competing legal challenges to updated emissions standards for refineries.

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton (D) has directed his top environmental official not to authorize new agreements that could be used to build a controversial mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

Energy entrepreneur Aubrey McClendon's death has raised questions about a controversial plan to develop some 300 acres of sand dunes along Michigan's west coast into multimillion-dollar vacation homes.

A federal court today rejected environmentalists' challenge to a decision exempting Colorado ski areas from "roadless" protections.

Republican lawmakers are seeking more information on how a federal agency put together health studies that flagged problems with a popular chemical.

Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Jim Inhofe is questioning whether U.S. EPA's No. 2 is eligible to serve at the agency.

As the White House prepares to welcome Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week, a top adviser to his Conservative Party predecessor is suggesting the United States should look to its northern neighbor for guidance on regulatory reform.

White House officials today said they expect the upcoming meeting between President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to touch on issues related to climate change and energy.

Republican climate activist and entrepreneur Jay Faison today doubled down on a new clean energy political initiative to parry attacks from the left on environment and energy.

The number of climate skeptics in Congress expanded to 182 members in 2015, according to a new analysis of public statements by the Center for American Progress Action Fund.

There won't be thermostat wars in the office of the future.

Climate change has a new home in the Pentagon's lexicon as the latest addition to the Department of Defense's "Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms."

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