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Former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and his wife, Christie, are joining the Colorado State University system as part-time advisers, the school said today.

The Republican Party is throwing money and big names at Kansas' 4th District ahead of tomorrow's special election.

A group of homeowners concerned about how a government-mandated shift toward renewable energy sources might affect their electric bills has petitioned U.S. EPA for reconsideration of the agency's finding that greenhouse gases "endanger" public health and welfare.

The upcoming March for Science in Washington, D.C., will be nonpartisan and won't include politicians as speakers, organizers said at a news conference this morning.

Former White House senior adviser Brian Deese, who helped the Obama administration negotiate the Paris Agreement, predicts United States industries will face "competitive disadvantage" if President Trump backs away from the deal.

Watchdog groups have filed a lawsuit to compel President Trump to release the White House's visitor records.

President Trump has picked a top conservative activist and former House Republican aide for the No. 2 spot at his budget office.

President Trump's pick of law professor Neomi Rao to head the White House's regulatory review shop reinforces his commitment to rein in executive branch authority.

Canada is warning the Trump administration that a "Buy American" plan for U.S. oil and gas pipelines could have an unexpected casualty: coal country.

The Trump administration is considering whether to change the national ozone standard set by the Obama administration in 2015, a court filing reveals.

The Trump administration is developing a "priority work" list for the Bureau of Land Management's 10,000 employees that calls on the agency to focus on permitting oil, gas and coal projects and securing the U.S.-Mexico border, presumably through construction of a wall, according to internal documents obtained by E&E News.

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A biblical torrent here in October 2015 destroyed 51 dams, flooded hundreds of homes and businesses and led to more than 15 deaths. Officials say the disaster is a cautionary tale for a patchwork of weak, underfunded state dam oversight agencies across the country.

Scientists fear an invasive species wave after finding colonies of a new sea snail in the Florida Keys.

The Colorado Senate approved a bill yesterday that would make it a crime for people to cultivate recreational marijuana for other people, and lawmakers were also set to outlaw pot growing co-ops.

A Pepsi bottling plant in Howell, Mich., spilled 7,200 gallons of concentrated Mountain Dew syrup last month, creating a "huge foaming event" that raised environmental concerns.

A Vermont woman is dead after her car was hit by an Amtrak passenger train, according to police.

Despite not yet having turned a profit, the luxury electric-car company Tesla Inc. has become America's most valuable car company.

Dow Chemical Co. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC knowingly used a chemical toxic to human health in their pesticides through the mid-1980s and contributed to the contamination of 94 California utility districts' water supplies, a new report says.

Successful water conservation efforts along the Lower Colorado River could be undermined by cuts proposed in the Trump administration's fiscal 2018 budget.

Toshiba Corp. yesterday projected a more than $9 billion loss for the fiscal year that ended last month.

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