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The Federal Emergency Management Agency became the first agency to move today on President Obama's executive order on flooding, releasing a proposed guidance as waters begin to subside in Louisiana.

A Mississippi jury yesterday convicted two people who fabricated clients for a lawsuit against oil giant BP PLC following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.

Environmentalists reached a $6 million deal today with an unconventional coal mine operator to pay for stream restoration and reforestation.

The United States is liable for future cleanup costs at three California facilities that manufactured solid-propellant rockets during the Cold War, a federal court ruled today.

A decision this week in Massachusetts' highest court could have a big impact on the ability of energy companies to build pipelines throughout New England.

A federal indictment released yesterday alleges that a Grand Canyon National Park employee sexually assaulted and choked a co-worker.

With President Obama's term in office set to draw to a close, Native American tribes are ramping up pressure on the administration to designate several national monuments on federal land in the West to protect archaeological and cultural resources that they consider sacred.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell next week will launch a nationwide tour to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service.

Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) predicted yesterday there will be a new effort in Congress next year to support construction of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository once one of its most outspoken opponents, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), retires.

Two months after Congress approved a long-awaited overhaul to the nation's chemical safety law for the first time in four decades, industry representatives and environmentalists still are arguing over sticking points.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump rerouted his campaign to Louisiana today to tour Baton Rouge and view damage from catastrophic flooding, but critics said that his visit was merely a "photo op" and that he should instead focus on the "climate crisis."

Despite a slew of other victories on Super Tuesday earlier this year, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had one of his worst showings of the primaries in the Minnesota caucus, where he slid to third place and handed Florida Sen. Marco Rubio one of his first victories of the primary season.

Michael Bean, the Interior Department's Endangered Species Act guru, is known for taking creative approaches to wildlife conservation and sporting a signature mustache.

Former top Interior Department officials from both Democratic and Republican administrations say the agency's beleaguered hydraulic fracturing rule is on solid legal ground.

Challenges to the White House Council on Environmental Quality's authority to issue recent climate change guidance have "limited relation" to its implementation, says a new analysis from Congress' research arm.

After Election Day 2008, President-elect Obama's fledgling transition team burst from a behind-the-scenes operation into a major force tasked with overhauling the government. Former agency operatives and Obama's political allies were dispatched into GOP-controlled departments across Washington to launch the takeover and spot potential crises. This election season, the Clinton and Trump campaigns are already organizing their transition operations, gearing up for the 73-day sprint between the election and the inauguration.

A new study says that air pollution caused by war has brought about cancers, birth defects and other health problems in Iraqi children.

A parasite is believed to have killed tens of thousands of fish in the Yellowstone River, resulting in the closure of a 183-mile stretch of that river and other waterways as scientists scramble to stop the problem.

About 82,000 people are now allowed to return to their homes, six days after an evacuation order was established in response to a San Bernardino County, Calif., wildfire that's burned 43 square miles.

Many Louisianans whose homes were ravaged by last week's flooding don't have flood insurance.

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