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A union representing U.S. EPA workers has warned its members about pressure from agency management about how to complete the annual federal employee survey.

The former director of the National Park Service's main contracting office improperly steered an award to a Fairfax, Va., firm in a bidding process that one of his employees called a "sham," according to a report released yesterday by the Interior Department Office of Inspector General.

A top Fish and Wildlife Service official appears to have violated federal law by working a side job as treasurer of a state wildlife regulators group that works closely with the agency, according to the Interior Department watchdog.

After a weeklong raid by wildlife authorities to rescue tigers at a Buddhist temple famous for being home to dozens of the animals, experts say the government's work is only beginning.

A central California water district, fined this year for misleading investors, was discovered to have given a $1.4 million home loan to one of its executives.

U.S. EPA is facing a flurry of lawsuits from electric utilities and environmentalists over a package of "technical corrections" to its Mercury and Air Toxics Standards released earlier this spring.

An ex-convict is shaping the future of wind energy.

Solar installations will almost double in number by the end of 2016, according to a report by GTM Research.

Carbon dioxide emissions from energy consumption saw the slowest growth since 2009, advancing by a mere 0.1 percent, according to BP PLC.

As the Supreme Court was scheduled to huddle in private today on whether to accept 27 states' latest challenge to U.S. EPA's power plant mercury regulations, a group of Michigan scientists publicly urged the state's Attorney General Bill Schuette (R) to exit the case.

Marathon Petroleum Corp. will invest more than $330 million to curb pollution from refineries in five states, according to a settlement announced this morning by U.S. EPA and the Justice Department.

After Ellen DeGeneres appealed to Australia to protect the Great Barrier Reef, the country's environment minister, Greg Hunt, sent a flurry of tweets promoting the work the Australian government has done to protect the embattled World Heritage site.

Yellowstone National Park rangers started and stopped attempts to recover an Oregon man's body yesterday after he slipped and fell into a hot spring Tuesday afternoon.

A man has gone missing in the shuttered Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia after he broke into the property to steal copper.

Maryland state delegate and director of the Lower Susquehanna Heritage Greenway nonprofit group Mary Ann Lisanti is asking local governments to transfer oversight authority for Garrett Island from the Fish and Wildlife Service to the National Park Service.

Agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security this week began an investigation into whether the California company Global Plywood & Lumber Inc. imported timber illegally harvested in the Peruvian rainforest.

A uranium company has agreed to pay U.S. EPA nearly $1 million for oversight at a defunct Colorado uranium mill that is now a Superfund site, according to the agency.

The Law of the Sea Treaty will not pass Congress this year because the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has not made it a priority, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said today.

As the price of crude has decreased, so has the presence of oil and gas lobbyists in the nation's capital.

The Sierra Club added its name today to the list of environmental groups and advocates who have endorsed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

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