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Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) has taken nearly $1.7 million in campaign donations from the coal, natural gas and oil industries, and executives and lobbyists for nuclear power companies and electric utilities since he took office in 1994, according to a McClatchy analysis.

The chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee wants details from the Securities and Exchange Commission about its investigation of how Exxon Mobil Corp. appraises its assets.

Former Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) has landed in the influence industry.

A shrimp-like crustacean that survives on the decaying leaves of Washington, D.C., could soon gain protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Nine conservation districts in Pennsylvania have decided to pass up state money for cleaning the Chesapeake Bay rather than conduct farm inspections on behalf of the state's Department of Environmental Protection.

Workers are finally moving a mountain eyesore that has towered above Ehrenfeld, Pa., for decades.

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Bill Snape — environmentalist, law professor and self-described dork — has a celebrity alter ego, Frostpaw the polar bear. The shaggy polyester bear suit with thick, fluffy paws, realistic claws and a big black snout morphs the graying 52-year-old Snape into a lure for TV cameras, children and political activists of all stripes. "Frostpaw is a draw. He's a media magnet," Snape said as he prepared to don the costume for an appearance outside the first presidential debate Monday night at Hofstra University here.

Japan indicated this week that it may shutter a burdensome nuclear reactor that has operated for around a year out of 20 years of existence.

Louisiana expects to receive about $420 million in funding for flood recovery in the next few weeks, but Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) does not want funding to stop there.

California regulators are finalizing rules that will prohibit the spraying of pesticides near schools and child care facilities.

U.S. EPA is scheduled to publish revisions to its "exceptional events" guidelines in Monday's Federal Register, giving potential challengers 60 days to appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

U.S. EPA has promoted Senior Water Policy Adviser Ellen Gilinsky to associate deputy assistant administrator in the Office of Water.

Two crows caused about 100,000 customers to lose power in Idaho, Wyoming and Montana in mid-July, according to Rocky Mountain Power.

"Deepwater Horizon," a film recapping the deadly 2010 BP PLC rig explosion and oil spill that poured over 3 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, has BP outraged.

Duke Energy Corp. has said it will dole out $1.7 million as part of a settlement for a 2009 fire that scorched traditional Cherokee lands.

U.S. EPA has revived an effort to keep high-ethanol fuels out of small engines, but critics of the agency's renewable fuel policies seized on the move to bolster their case.

A heat shock in the Pacific Ocean led to an enormous toxic algal bloom last year, a new study has found.

A national advocacy group for implementing a carbon tax has taken root in the heart of the U.S. oil and gas industry: Houston.

Lawmakers and Latino political activists are looking to energize Hispanic voters to turn the tide on environmental policy in the 2016 election.

A Mexican citizen has been ordered to pony up $61 million for setting a blaze that scorched over 45 square miles in Sequoia National Forest earlier this year.

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