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A Democratic bill introduced Friday would offer grants to utilities for tree-planting programs aimed at reducing electricity use. The bill from Rep. Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) is modeled off an existing…

A Virginia Republican last week introduced a bill that would require the Interior Department to lease a nearly 3-million-acre area off Virginia for oil and gas development, a proposal that…

Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) last week introduced a bill that would conserve nearly 1 million acres of Sonoran Desert lands, a move aimed at protecting both wildlife habitat and adjacent…

Massachusetts voters will head to the polls tomorrow for the state's special Senate primary contest with Rep. Ed Markey (D) favored to proceed to the June 25 general election showdown…

A total of 48 groups have lobbied on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, according to files disclosed last week. The American Petroleum Institute increased its lobbying spending in the first…

House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster expressed doubts Saturday about the Obama administration's claims that the furloughing of Federal Aviation Administration traffic controllers was "unavoidable." "There are some in…

Sen. Barbara Boxer's (D-Calif.) push for the passage of the Water Resources Development Act has put her at odds with the same environmentalists who have long praised her work. The…

The company exploring the possible development of a massive gold and copper mine in southwestern Alaska is sharply criticizing U.S. EPA's latest report on the potential impacts of large-scale resource…

Sequestration has affected the federal government's ability to put in place conservation measures on farmland, according to several organizations that work closely with the Agriculture Department. The effects of the…

Anthony Foxx, the mayor of Charlotte, N.C., will be tapped today to lead the Department of Transportation during President Obama's second term -- a premier post for an official relatively…

President Obama is expected to nominate billionaire Penny Pritzker for Commerce secretary, setting in motion a confirmation process the White House hopes will wrap up before the agency's acting secretary…

President Obama today promised to fight to adequately invest in research and innovation and ensure the nation continues to follow an evidence-based scientific review process. "In all the sciences we have to make sure that we are supporting the idea that they aren't subject to politics; they are not skewed by an agenda ... that we make sure we go where the evidence leads us," Obama said in remarks to the National Academy of Sciences in honor of its 150th anniversary.

Can China maintain its current pace of growth while successfully building a low-carbon economy? During today's OnPoint, Thomas Peterson, president and CEO at the Center for Climate Strategies, discusses the…

North Dakota state representatives yesterday passed a Water Commission budget, which included $100 million of the state's $450 million share of a project to divert part of the Red River…

Citing "environmental terrorism," Oregon House members yesterday passed two bills that would make it illegal for environmentalists to stage protests in the trees. One of the bills would criminalize interference…

California lawmakers are debating how to spend the $500 million a year in clean energy funds expected to come in as a result of a widely supported ballot measure that…

Once a year, Florida state Rep. Jimmy Patronis (R) introduces a deregulatory bill that is a boon for businesses and a headache for environmentalists. It started in 2009, when he…

A $2 billion measure to fund water projects in Texas was knocked off the state House floor yesterday because of a point of order. The bill was killed after state…

U.N. officials are warning that an increase in demand for metals in devices like cellphones means officials need to revamp current recycling models. "As populations in emerging economies adopt similar…

State and federal officials say that high levels of a toxic carcinogen -- 1,4 dioxane -- found in an Artesian Water Co. well in Delaware escaped from a Superfund site…

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