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CLEVELAND -- House Speaker Paul Ryan headlined a Bipartisan Policy Center forum yesterday evening at a ritzy downtown grocery store where he extolled the tax plan Republicans rolled out this summer as part of their "A Better Way" agenda.

CLEVELAND -- Indiana Gov. Mike Pence asserted last night that disgruntled voters from across the political spectrum -- including those with ties to the coal industry -- will help to put Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump into the White House in November.

CLEVELAND -- The North Dakota Republican congressman who has been informally advising GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump on energy policy is taking advantage of the Republican National Convention here to push the campaign on his proposal to create a new technology-neutral tax break.

CLEVELAND -- Republican activist Jay Faison, a North Carolina entrepreneur looking to prop up federal candidates who support "clean energy," is not sure he can support presidential candidate Donald Trump this fall.

Ohio EPA Director Craig Butler's name was floated at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this week as a possible candidate for leading U.S. EPA in a Donald Trump administration.

CLEVELAND -- For Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), scourge of Obama administration regulations and the agencies that enforce them, the Republican National Convention is a homecoming.

More federal funding, increased collaboration across government and a renewed emphasis on communicating the benefits of environmental regulations are among the priorities laid out in a new report by the organization representing the heads of state environmental agencies.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today voted to order up a new standard to tackle cyberthreats lurking in industrial parts and software used to support the U.S. electric grid, despite objections from Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur.

The Obama administration is scrapping a contentious $35 million drilling project to study nuclear waste storage and geothermal energy after running into intense local opposition in North and South Dakota, according to an email obtained by Greenwire.

After his confirmation for a top White House science post stalled, Bob Simon retired and is now taking time to "decompress and reassess." He's one of many presidential picks who never got the gigs they signed up for amid political gridlock. One of President Obama's nominees died while waiting for Senate action. Is stalemate over nominees the new norm?

China has issued the first air pollution claim of its kind, and the country hopes the penalty will send a warning to other large emitters.

Seven diverse candidates are running for the office of Washington state's commissioner of public lands, the position that supervises state trust lands that produce money for schools.

Although it will take several more years before it is safe to consume fish from the Hudson River, scientists there have seen progress in reducing the levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

The owners of the Colstrip power plant in Montana have settled a lawsuit and agreed to stop the collection of toxic coal ash sludge in ponds from its biggest units by 2019.

A Colorado community said readings of its tap water have tested positive for THC, the primary psychoactive compound in marijuana.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold its first public meeting in 15 years next week in response to calls from Congress for greater transparency.

The White House yesterday rolled out several initiatives to boost electric vehicles, including expanding a $4.5 billion loan guarantee program to include EV charging technology.

The Utah Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a 2013 ruling that would allow a plan from Blue Castle Holdings Inc. to build a nuclear power plant on the Green River, a tributary of the Colorado River.

The upcoming public auction for offshore oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico will be streamed online after the government's last auction was swarmed by hundreds of protestors.

One oil sands giant has set a greenhouse gas reduction goal for itself for the first time.

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