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American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard today doubled down on the industry's climate pitch: Produce more natural gas.

President-elect Donald Trump's transition team will be moving into agencies including U.S. EPA, the Interior Department and the Energy Department as early as next week, according to sources close to the transition.

A top Senate staffer could ascend to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission during the lame-duck session of Congress, putting him in position to become agency chairman next year.

The Interior Department today finalized a new rule establishing a competitive leasing process for renewable energy projects on federal lands, a move the agency says will ensure future administrations continue to advance green energy projects.

Critics of the armed standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge last winter say Republican Donald Trump's election this week could unexpectedly quell the militant anti-public-lands movement behind the occupation. There’s both statistical and historical support for that theory.

Over 70 endangered giant freshwater stingrays have died in Thailand's Mae Klong River, according to a National Geographic explorer studying the species.

The Charlotte, N.C., metropolitan area is blighted by some of the highest ozone levels in the Southeast, despite an overall improvement in air quality from previous years, a study shows.

Some dam owners in South Carolina are reluctant to repair damage from last year's historic flood, and costs could end up being passed on to taxpayers.

A wood products company in Pella, Iowa, spilled two toxic compounds into the ground, though the years-old releases do not affect local drinking water, according to a U.S. EPA study.

Water officials in Tucson and Phoenix, Ariz., have made a deal to leave more water in Lake Mead next year, looking to avoid an unprecedented federal shortage declaration.

As industrial mercury emissions declined in North America, so did concentrations of the toxic metal in a top tuna species, researchers at Stony Brook University and other schools conclude in a new study.

Car safety and fuel efficiency advocate Clarence Ditlow III died yesterday at the age of 72.

Safety advocates yesterday slammed the Department of Transportation's theory that regulating autonomous cars will only stifle innovation, while automakers argued federal guidelines are burdensome.

A hydroelectric dam project in a remote region of Labrador in Canada has engendered protests, hunger strikes, sit-ins and increasing media attention.

Federal plans to ship radioactive waste through the mountains of North Carolina have area residents up in arms.

The parent company of the contentious Dakota Access pipeline has said federal approval for drilling under the Missouri River in North Dakota is "imminent."

The Department of Energy yesterday inked a deal securing a fuel source for a proposed uranium enrichment facility, signaling progress in long-running negotiations over the project in Kentucky's "Atomic City."

After the election of Republican businessman and climate skeptic Donald Trump as U.S. president, there's another world power poised to step up as champion in the international fight against global warming: China.

Exxon Mobil Corp. supports the Paris climate agreement, according to a tweet by company Vice President Suzanne McCarron.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz will attend an event on Mission Innovation, an agreement committing 20 nations to double their clean energy investments, next week during the United Nations' climate negotiations in Morocco.

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