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Kristen Sarri will head the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stopped short today of saying Democrats would win back enough seats to take control of the House in next month's election.

A member of the powerful Rockefeller family who has recently become active in opposing oil and gas pipelines allegedly expressed concern with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's silence on fracking, methane, and oil and gas subsidies, according to leaked emails.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was seen as an important player for the Obama administration's hot-button Clean Water Rule last year, according to an email posted on the WikiLeaks website yesterday.

A monthlong campaign by House Natural Resources Committee Democrats to discredit the panel's Republican leadership is an attempt by the minority to score policy points during the pre-election congressional lull, current and former committee staffers said.

John Podesta has become the go-to guy for top government jobs.

The National Park Service today posted a sweeping proposal from Director Jonathan Jarvis that seeks to provide a management framework for the 100-year-old agency to address climate change, poor resource management, sexual harassment, a lack of workforce diversity, and other current and future problems.

When S. William Becker gets a call asking for Stuart, he can tell it's someone he doesn't know.

COAL TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Leaders in this small Appalachian community have been working to turn abandoned strip mine sites into a destination for motorheads and hikers — and a blueprint for regional economic growth — following the decline of hundreds of years of resource extraction.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board's final report into a 2013 explosion at a Louisiana chemical facility slams the plant's operator and presses for more safety improvements.

California became a model for water conservation during last year's drought when the state cut urban water use by over 25 percent, exceeding a mandatory order issued by Gov. Jerry Brown (D).

Environmental groups and regulators have drastically different claims as to how much coal ash escaped a Duke Energy facility during Hurricane Matthew.

U.S. EPA today published the final version of technical recommendations for curbing smog-forming emissions from existing oil and gas operations, the latest step in its bid to cut air pollution from the industry.

An animal rights group today released video of hens living in disturbing conditions allegedly at a cage-free farm in California that supplies eggs for sale at Costco.

The world's top mining company, BHP Billiton Ltd., is gearing up to make half its workforce women by 2015.

Tesla Motors Inc. is equipping all of its new cars with the hardware needed to eventually drive themselves, founder and CEO Elon Musk announced yesterday.

A renewable energy company has finished building a $180 million solar farm in Minnesota, making it the largest solar complex in the Midwest and one of the largest in the United States.

A fuel-cell company enlisted former Secretary of State Colin Powell to petition House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) for an extension of a tax credit that would aid the corporation, according to hacked emails.

Jurors this morning will begin deliberating on the federal conspiracy trial against seven defendants involved in the armed takeover of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge earlier this year.

The final step is underway in cleaning a seaside bluff that was turned into an auto junkyard after the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake.

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