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Oil and gas activities in Alaska's Cook Inlet will only have minor impacts on marine mammals in the area, according to a draft environmental assessment from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The White House yesterday began considering what appears to be the Fish and Wildlife Service's second attempt to allow wind energy developers longer permits to unintentionally kill eagles.

Protesters affiliated with the "keep it in the ground" movement demonstrated outside a scheduled auction for gas and oil production rights on public lands yesterday in Reno, Nev., a state with little oil production.

Nearly two dozen federally registered lobbyists have donated to the presidential campaign of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, records show.

The Nuclear Energy Institute has bolstered its K Street roster.

Former White House contender Carly Fiorina today endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz for the Republican presidential nomination, asserting that the Texas lawmaker is the only candidate who can defeat current front-runner Donald Trump in the GOP primary battle.

Environmentalists today pressed the Obama administration to get to work on its comprehensive review of federal coal leasing with one goal in mind: "Keep publicly owned coal in the ground."

More than three dozen environmental groups are reminding lawmakers of TransCanada Corp.'s trade litigation against the United States over President Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, just one day before Canada's new prime minister is scheduled to visit Washington, D.C.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Republicans are pushing for more information on how U.S. EPA is administering a program that reviews the science on the safety of chemicals.

When House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers steps down as head of the panel at the end of this year, it will be a big loss for the inland waterways industry, said the head of a water infrastructure trade group.

Ernest Moniz last week received a tiny toy on his first visit to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since becoming Energy secretary: a 4-centimeter Lego likeness of himself.

Power producers filed a wave of lawsuits to U.S. EPA's haze reduction plans for Texas and Oklahoma in three different appellate courts over the last week.

Once hailed as a renewable alternative to oil, energy from trees faces a dismal future.

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy sold close to 1,300 cattle over the past five years and found business in a handful of states even as the federal government sought to purge his herd from public lands, according to state records reviewed by Greenwire.

Are states that are stopping their Clean Power Plan planning putting themselves at a disadvantage to those that continue to work on the plan by potentially losing out on economic and business opportunities available in the clean energy sector? During today's OnPoint, David Cash, dean of the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and the former commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, explains why he believes the Supreme Court's stay of the power plan will not have a long-lasting effect on efforts to cap carbon.

The ashes of six unidentified workers known as "decontamination troops" whose names could not be confirmed ended up in a Buddhist temple in a town just north of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant that was crippled during a 2011 tsunami and meltdown.

A widespread algal bloom has killed 23 million fish in Chile.

China hopes to enact its first soil pollution law in 2017 in an effort to quell the environmental costs of rapid growth.

Authorities closed the gates to a park in the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles after they found an oily residue on playground equipment -- the latest event to jar an area trying to return to normal after a monthslong methane leak.

Oregon officials said Portland residents who want to eat vegetables grown in gardens near a glass factory found to have emitted high levels of heavy metals shouldn't worry about health problems.

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