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California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) is turning to a prominent former Clinton administration official to help forge consensus on a plan to revamp the state's central water hub.

At least six members of California's Republican delegation to the national convention this week in Cleveland have come down with norovirus, a highly contagious digestive illness.

CLEVELAND -- Rep. Evan Jenkins (R-W.Va.) last night predicted his legislation to block agencies from taking into account carbon dioxide emissions' long-term economic damage has a better chance of being signed into law by a President Trump than a President Clinton.

Murray Energy Corp. and its political arm have opened their pockets to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, according to Federal Election Commission reports.

CLEVELAND -- The son of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has said he would like to be the next secretary of the Interior, but the political scion today revealed there's another way he could serve in Washington, D.C. -- in elected office himself.

CLEVELAND -- National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Roger Wicker of Mississippi acknowledged yesterday that the GOP faces an uphill challenge in retaining Senate seats in Illinois and Wisconsin but said the party would ultimately hold those seats and its chamber majority in November.

CLEVELAND -- Three ambitious state attorneys general waging war on Obama administration energy and environmental regulations shared the same stage here yesterday, arguing the need for courts to end their deference to federal agencies.

CLEVELAND -- While energy issues have made a few cameos on the Republican National Convention floor this week, any significant discussion has taken a back seat to national and domestic security concerns and a steady stream of criticism of presumed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

The National Park Service has picked a woman who has risen quickly through the agency's ranks to address a series of sexual harassment allegations and other problems at Grand Canyon National Park.

CLEVELAND -- In the midst of Ohio Sen. Rob Portman's (R) whirlwind campaign schedule this week -- as he helped to construct homes, kayaked the Cuyahoga River and hosted a rally for 500 interns -- he made an unexpected declaration.

The Republican Party this week unveiled its latest plan to chip away at U.S. EPA.

CLEVELAND -- End Citizens United, a political action committee aiding Democratic Senate candidates who support campaign finance reform, announced yesterday that it was spending $1.2 million for TV ads in Nevada and New Hampshire. Informed of this yesterday, David Bossie erupted with a half-laugh, half-snort. "I think they're intellectually bankrupt," the Citizens United president said, "because what they're doing is thick with hypocrisy."

The world's first outdoor air cleaner will be tested in polluted Beijing in September, and China's Ministry of Environmental Protection wants to see how the 23-foot tower performs.

The effects of the El Niño weather phenomenon in Africa have been felt in more ways than one.

A Virginia woman has been rescued from the same rugged area of Wyoming for the third time in three years after she ventured into the woods to search for treasure.

A new report says dozens of cleanup workers at the site of one of the largest industrial disasters in U.S. history have contracted life-threatening illnesses stemming from toxic coal ash exposures. And they're filing lawsuits against companies across the country.

The Environmental Working Group today published a list of the 10 chemicals it wants U.S. EPA to review first under new provisions of the recently reformed Toxic Substances Control Act.

California regulators have made the first of three rulemakings on dangerous chemicals.

U.S. EPA needs to do a better job of tracking pesticides that may be relatively safe on their own but much more toxic when combined, an environmental group said this week.

After a mine dam failure two years ago, the British Columbia government introduced changes to increase safety in mine waste storage facilities and dams.

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