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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) urged the Department of Agriculture this week to remove drought-stricken trees in three national forests in California to reduce wildfire risks, a move that would require shifting $38 million within the agency's budget.

Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts proposed updated legislation today to speed the thinning of wildfire-prone national forests ahead of a vote on the measure Tuesday.

Oregon Republican Rep. Greg Walden announced his desire to chair the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday while dismissing talk of Democrats taking over the House.

House Republicans are increasingly getting behind a plan that would allow Congress to wrap up its fiscal 2017 spending bills in a post-election, lame-duck session.

Jane Lubchenco has been called "the bionic woman of good science." She'll also answer to J-Lu, a play on the pop star Jennifer Lopez's nickname, J-Lo.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — In a nondescript industrial building on the outskirts of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, researchers can make the sun shine and the wind blow with just a flip of a switch.

The federal government should overhaul its policies to boost prospects for offshore wind as U.S. deployment lags behind Europe's, according to a report released today by the departments of the Interior and Energy.

Federal prosecutors will kick off their bid next week to convict the leaders of the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Oregon. Opening statements in what promises to be a lengthy and unusual trial are slated for Tuesday for seven defendants, including the group's leaders, Ammon and Ryan Bundy.

At least 29 people are dead and 100 are injured after a boiler explosion at a four-story factory near Bangladesh's capital on Saturday, according to officials.

Environmental group Greenpeace says campaigners in southern Russia have been assaulted by masked men with pistols, truncheons and knives.

North Korea has enlisted brigades of soldiers to deal with a flood that killed more than 130 people and destroyed tens of thousands of homes.

Fifteen years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, New York City medics and firefighters who dashed to the scene are still struggling with ailments related to toxins from the conflagration.

Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla Motors Inc., claimed yesterday that his company's new Autopilot system would likely have prevented an infamous Tesla death in May.

Agrium Inc. and Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. today announced their merger into what will be one of the largest crop nutrient companies in the world.

Google searches for "peak oil" are close to zero, signaling a decline in a theory that once helped increase oil prices to almost $150 per barrel.

Sea-level rise threatens a future California power plant and the facility should be relocated, the California Coastal Commission said Friday.

A former top attorney at the Department of Transportation will now lead Morrison & Foerster's Transportation Group.

A 2-mile section of the Dakota Access pipeline route near tribal lands will remain off-limits to developers until Friday as supporters and opponents grapple with the Obama administration's unprecedented intervention in the dispute last week.

Release of U.S. EPA's updated Cross-State Air Pollution Rule had at least one immediate legal impact: The agency is now poised to settle a lawsuit filed earlier this year by North Carolina.

Last week, biologists named a new genus and species of flatworm after President Obama.

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