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The Obama administration plans to unveil new federal regulations for hydraulic fracturing and drilling on public lands within the next few weeks, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said yesterday during a…

The Interior Department yesterday announced it is testing industry's ability to capture and contain oil from a runaway well in ultra-deep Gulf of Mexico waters. The unannounced exercise -- the…

U.S. EPA plans to change the way it investigates environmental justice complaints, recently releasing two policy papers that address long-standing criticism of the agency's Office of Civil Rights. The papers…

U.S. EPA has moved up its deadline for oil and gas companies to submit requests to use alternative monitoring methods to comply with a sectorwide greenhouse gas reporting requirement, according…

BP PLC will pay $340 million for two Louisiana restoration projects as part of its cleanup efforts following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The money will fund the construction…

Bald eagle habitat may hinder cleanup efforts at a New Jersey toxic waste site. The birds have been spotted on the site of a former paper mill so fraught with…

After the Fish and Wildlife Service granted a Wisconsin hunter permission to import a rare rhino trophy, conservationists worry the decision will set a dangerous precedent. David Reinke, 52, argued…

Members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe are up in arms over the proposed sale of a piece of the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark site. Owner James Czywczynski is trying…

The southern New Mexico plant that has been pushing for approval to slaughter horses will soon open its doors, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said. "It will open unless Congress restores…

Ranger Margaret Anderson, who was killed by a heavily armed assailant on New Year's Day, 2012, was honored by the National Park Service yesterday when her name was added to…

The Bureau of Land Management is proposing updates to decades-old regulations to more accurately measure oil and gas produced from public lands, an effort aimed at ensuring taxpayers get a…

Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) has decided against running for the Senate in 2014 to replace retiring incumbent Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D), an aide confirmed this morning. Rahall, the ranking member…

Fifty-six conservation groups yesterday sent a farm bill proposal to Capitol Hill that seeks to stem agriculture's effects on wildlife habitat and water quality. The ambitious plan includes streamlining the…

Architects and environmentalists joined forces today to oppose efforts to repeal a 2007 law that requires federal buildings to sharply reduce their use of fossil fuels. The provision in question…

A bipartisan group of senators this week called on the Obama administration to consider challenging a new E.U. anti-dumping tariff on ethanol imports from the United States. The senators, all…

A bipartisan group of Senate leaders this week called on federal regulators overseeing the gas and power markets to quickly end a jurisdictional turf war over policing energy trading. Senate…

Environmentalists took aim at Duke Energy Corp. CEO Jim Rogers' celebrated record on climate change today, charging that the utility's track record on renewable energy and emissions reduction doesn't square…

Former Boulder, Colo., Mayor Shaun McGrath has been appointed to head U.S. EPA's Region 8 office in Denver that oversees half a dozen Western states, the agency announced yesterday. McGrath…

Democratic Rep. Ed Markey claimed an easy victory yesterday in the Massachusetts special Senate primary and is now expected to win the state's open seat outright in June -- even…

U.S. EPA cited other regulatory priorities and budget cuts as the reasons behind its denial yesterday of a petition from environmentalists to list coal mines as a pollution source under…

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