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The University of Miami is stepping in to help a stalled plan to build a Wal-Mart on the world's largest remaining tract of privately owned pine rockland, a swath of land the school once owned.

Idaho Bureau of Land Management officials are taking proposals on what to do with Skinny Dipper Hot Springs, a popular tourist destination that closed last June due to safety concerns, pollution and environmental degradation.

Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff, competing in a special congressional election to replace Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, has raked in $8.3 million in campaign contributions, his campaign said last night.

Rep. Dan Kildee (D-Mich.) introduced legislation today to require U.S. EPA to revamp the Lead and Copper Rule for public drinking water, which has not seen an update in more than 25 years.

House lawmakers are again angling to change the nation's top fisheries law, introducing a bill today that emphasizes the need to improve access for recreational fishermen.

Rep. Fred Upton, a senior Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, had the ear of Energy Secretary Rick Perry yesterday, with cybersecurity and nuclear on the agenda, a Republican aide said.

An ongoing fight over a controversial pipeline project to pump water out of California's Mojave Desert has sparked allegations that the project is being pushed by the rumored pick for a top Interior post who could gain financially if the project is approved.

U.S. officials are trying to find an American buyer for Westinghouse Electric Co.'s nuclear business, in an attempt to fight off Chinese investors who have been interested in the company for years.

Former Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) has signed up his first K Street clients.

A study from the University of Chicago and New York University is questioning the performance of a Department of Energy efficiency program.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced the selections today of a Capitol Hill staffer and a former Monsanto Co. official for top department jobs.

Large American coal companies are asking President Trump to keep the United States in the Paris Agreement as way to advance fossil fuel interests.

In a historic vote this afternoon, Senate Republicans successfully invoked the "nuclear option" to advance the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, clearing the way to confirm the Colorado appeals judge by late tomorrow.

Activists in Poland say a "massacre" of trees has followed a change in environmental law.

Four environmental and fishing groups are ready to sue the state of Oregon for logging practices and road projects in two state forests that they say violate the Endangered Species Act.

A Nevada bill that would ban hydraulic fracturing on nonfederal lands passed the Assembly's Natural Resources Committee yesterday.

U.S. EPA remains committed to joint pesticide registration reviews with Canada and other countries, the director of the agency's pesticide registration division said yesterday.

Hyperloop One has named 11 U.S. semifinalists who will compete for a chance to build the innovative transportation system first envisioned by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

Amtrak admitted yesterday that a train derailment at New York City's Pennsylvania Station earlier this week was caused by weakened crossties on one of its tracks.

Trade groups are pressing the Trump administration to use existing laws to lower permitting hurdles for infrastructure projects in the face of political battles over federal spending.

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