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Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) yesterday became the third Republican in the Senate to break with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and call for the GOP to hold a hearing on the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) wants to get a handle on the federal government's guns.

The Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign has tapped North Carolina Justice Center Communications Chief Jeff Shaw to be a new top spokesman.

The Federal Managers Association has chosen a military readiness center official as its new president.

Tom Reynolds is leaving government service.

A Republican carbon tax advocate yesterday chided environmentalists on the left for making climate change a wedge issue.

The Academy Award-nominated director of the anti-fracking documentary "Gasland" was arrested yesterday at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission during the latest of a string of protests over the agency's role in permitting natural gas infrastructure.

The Obama administration officially kicked off its comprehensive review of the federal coal program yesterday, a little over two months since issuing a moratorium on new leases.

Officials and scientists who write and review the nation's chief climate analysis say they are struggling to get across the risks of climate change to policymakers and the public.

HASKELL COUNTY, Kan. -- It took 10 million years for rainfall and glacial runoff to fill the sprawling Ogallala Aquifer. It took a century to drain a third of it and threaten its future. Jarvis Garetson's great-grandfather arrived here in 1902. The family obtained its water right, one of the first in the county, in the 1930s. For nearly 50 years, the Garetsons doused their corn in Ogallala groundwater. Now, they are embroiled in a long and bitter dispute over the right to pump from the aquifer, a case that could open the floodgates to legal challenges on individual claims to the resource.

Environmental advocates said they plan to pursue legal action against a French marine park over its treatment of orca whales and other animals after some were killed during a severe storm.

A top official from one of China's most polluted provinces has said he will use the 2022 Winter Olympics to drive efforts to cut smog, promote clean energy and ease away from heavy fuels.

Actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio has pledged support for local and international groups working to save the Leuser Ecosystem in Indonesia from development.

Wyoming's wind tax revenues fell 15 percent last year as the state struggles with a sharp drop in the fossil fuel sectors.

Uncertainty over the availability of funding to link Los Angeles to California's planned high-speed rail system and to build the rest of the system is giving leaders angst.

Campbell Soup Co. announced yesterday that it will stop using the chemical bisphenol A in its cans by the middle of 2017 as a way to reassure customers who are worried about the impacts it may have on their health.

California is not using data from blood tests showing high levels of lead in children living near a closed Los Angeles area battery plant to direct its cleanup of the area.

Premature births linked to air pollution cost the United States at least $4.3 billion annually, researchers conclude in a preliminary version of a study that argues for tighter controls on releases of fine particulates.

Charging that Volkswagen deceived consumers with its "clean diesel" marketing campaign, the Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint in United States district court against the German automaker.

U.S. EPA employees did not intentionally seek to lowball the expected cost to refineries of complying with tighter limits on gasoline sulfur content but did include some inaccurate information in the regulatory impact analysis (RIA) accompanying the 2014 rule, the agency's inspector general said in an audit released today.

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