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The House Natural Resources Committee is examining potential problems with the oversight and stewardship practices of the National Park Service.

The historic floods that devastated Louisiana earlier this month are a wake-up call for lawmakers to consider sweeping changes to the federal flood insurance program, former Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu said this week.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest has defended the Obama administration's record on transparency, saying the president opened up the White House much more than his predecessors.

The conservative Freedom Partners Action Fund announced today it will spend $1 million on a new television ad criticizing Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate Katie McGinty.

Leaders of both major parties cheered victories for their preferred candidates in last night's Florida Senate primary battles, setting up an showdown between Sen. Marco Rubio (R) and Rep. Patrick Murphy (D), while embattled Rep. Corrine Brown (D) became the fifth House lawmaker to lose a re-election bid.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) last night cleared the first hurdle in his bid for a sixth term, easily holding off former state Sen. Kelli Ward (R) and setting up a faceoff with Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick in November.

Florida voters yesterday overwhelmingly approved a measure that removes taxes on renewable energy projects for commercial property, paving the way for solar expansion in the Sunshine State.

Wind and solar can supply 30 percent of the annual power for the nation's Eastern grid without reliability concerns, new research from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory said.

A federal court ruling last year threatens to upend the "settled understanding" of who can serve in acting roles in government positions, government attorneys are arguing to the Supreme Court in a closely watched case over agency vacancies.

With signals President Obama is on the verge of formally joining the landmark Paris climate agreement, an environmental economist is investigating whether the United States can actually afford to hold up its end of the deal.

Hundreds of birds have died at a Nevada solar energy plant since early 2015, but the total number of likely bird deaths remains unknown because federal regulators are not requiring the plant's owners to disclose it.

Julián Castro, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, has suggested the agency may decrease the allowable limit for lead in children's blood.

Mosquitoes trapped in South Beach, Fla., have tested positive for the Zika virus for the first time in the United States.

A pesticide spray in a South Carolina county — intended to target Zika-carrying mosquitoes — instead appears to have killed millions of honeybees.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ordered Wyoming's biggest uranium mine to cease shipping radioactive waste after two recent spills in Utah.

The largest international environmental network voted overwhelmingly against the controversial Pebble copper and gold mine project in southwestern Alaska, opposition groups announced yesterday.

Mining advocates say U.S. EPA did little in a meeting with a small-business panel yesterday to allay industry concerns about new financial assurance requirements for hardrock mines.

The Gulf Coast has lots of thunderstorms; it's also on the receiving end of relatively high amounts of mercury through rainfall.

Cargo vessels of the future might have minimal or no crews on them, marking the biggest change in shipping since steam engines were replaced by diesel.

An Energy Department agency yesterday canceled a $5 billion, 10-year contract it awarded to a Lockheed Martin Corp. subsidiary to manage a former nuclear test site in Nevada.

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