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The Department of Agriculture plans to maintain higher federal payments to joint farm operations that enroll in conservation contracts, despite criticism that the higher limit tilts benefits in favor of megafarms.

Flint, Mich.'s local water treatment plant may have been unprepared to adjust to a switch to the Flint River, emails from Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's (R) office show.

At least two Democratic senators took advantage of this week's visit by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to press the newly minted leader on parochial U.S.-Canadian policy matters.

The House's top watchdog is asking for more details on some embarrassing misbehavior at U.S. EPA that has involved watching pornography, drug use and other incidents of fraud and abuse of government resources.

A bid by conservationists and outdoor businesses to designate a 2.5-million-acre Owyhee Canyonlands National Monument in southeast Oregon suffered a significant setback this week when voters in Malheur County overwhelmingly rejected it.

The Bureau of Land Management today proposed routing the final two segments of a nearly 1,000-mile-long power line project across small portions of a national conservation area that's home to the largest concentration of nesting raptors in North America.

Utah state lawmakers passed legislation yesterday establishing a dedicated funding stream for what's expected to be a $14 million lawsuit to take control of federal lands, a major step in the state's quest to expand access for mining, logging, grazing and drilling.

A major utility is supporting a new type of "zero emissions" power plant that aims to revolutionize natural gas generation.

Last week, a conservation group scooped the Fish and Wildlife Service on its proposal to delist the Yellowstone grizzly, alerting the media before the agency did. The slip-up lifted the curtain on the orchestrated rollout of agency announcements. Officials weigh a range of factors when deciding whom to tell ahead and when.

Last week, the United States and Canada announced a climate change agreement that included a commitment by both countries to regulate methane emissions from existing oil and gas sources. During today's OnPoint, Catherine McKenna, Canada's minister of environment and climate change, discusses the deal and the road ahead for both countries in meeting their Paris pledges. She also talks about the challenges associated with meeting demands for energy infrastructure projects while upholding environmental commitments.

The effects of Alaska's oil collapse, which has resulted in a $3.5 billion state revenue deficit, is forcing the state's school system into peril.

Some legal experts are puzzled over a monthlong debate in Colorado over legalizing household rain barrels.

A Florida university is attracting protests over a plan to build two football fields on part of its neglected nature preserve.

Decades before Warren Anderson led Union Carbide Co. during the most lethal chemical disaster in modern history, the FBI considered him as a potential spy on the Soviet Union.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced yesterday that a new filtration system has cleared chemicals from the contaminated drinking water in a rural upstate New York town.

Eleven states have failed to submit plans for fully meeting the federal air quality standard for sulfur dioxide, according to a formal U.S. EPA determination that could lead to sanctions.

An Amtrak passenger train derailed just after midnight today in southwestern Kansas, injuring 29 people.

The Department of Transportation has chosen seven finalists in a competition aimed to help municipalities eliminate traffic congestion.

Some companies are posting more information about how they obtain the food consumers eat, and customers are hooked.

U.S. EPA's inspector general has launched an audit of how agency offices handle sensitive information, including the watchdog's frequent antagonist, the Office of Homeland Security.

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