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A habitual would-be New York City subway driver is set to have a feature film made about his life, but the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said this week that it will seize any profits he makes from the work.

Mounting fears that Peabody Energy Corp. will declare bankruptcy spurred action yesterday in two states where a subsidiary of the world's largest public coal company has cited its healthy finances to guarantee coal mine cleanup costs.

Venezuela has hired lawyers in the United States to make its case with Obama administration attorneys grappling with a pending Supreme Court case over seized oil rigs.

A federal judge expressed "no confidence" in U.S. EPA's ability to decide what documents it should release or redact related to the controversial Pebble copper and gold mining project in southwestern Alaska.

The National Weather Service has issued fire warnings for 11 Midwestern and Southern states after a cold and dry winter that has seen crop-damaging freezes.

Researchers recently lurked in Seattle parks wearing masks and dark-haired wigs while carrying a stuffed crow.

As China pushes to protect elephants from being hunted for ivory, consumers are shifting to a rare Southeast Asian bird instead.

After decades of medical testing, 19 chimpanzees in New Mexico will ease into retirement at a sanctuary in Louisiana, a move that was prompted by a major donation.

Bob Ebeling, a rocket scientist who dedicated his life to preserving wildlife, yesterday died at the age of 89.

A maintenance worker at Yellowstone National Park said a contractor retaliated against him after he reported that employees were exposed to asbestos at Old Faithful Inn.

The Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management has approved a new oil well in the heart of the 704,000-acre Basin and Range National Monument in Nevada.

A former longtime member of Congress has joined the K Street roster for a Texas company looking to store the federal government's nuclear waste.

Former Alaska Public Media CEO Stephen Lindbeck said yesterday he is weighing a challenge to Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska).

Several appliance industry groups are protesting a proposed Department of Energy rule that they say could "bring trade to a halt at the border."

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) signaled today that the fiscal 2017 spending bills won't come to the floor until the House sorts out its intraparty squabbling over the budget resolution.

House Republican lawmakers are stepping up their opposition to an effort led by the co-founder of Burt's Bees and her son to turn over a mountain range in Maine to the federal government.

The drinking water lead contamination crisis in Flint, Mich., and related infrastructure questions overpowered a House hearing on U.S. EPA's budget request this morning.

U.S. EPA may not be part of Big Brother after all.

The federal government and private sector are doubling down to build and maintain stable and safe drinking water supplies, the White House said this morning.

A federal judge in Oregon yesterday revealed the name of the 26th person to be charged in the 40-day occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, though he is not yet in custody and his Montana family is reportedly weighing the possibility of resisting his arrest.

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