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The Department of Energy is following U.S. EPA's lead and plans to take public comments as it complies with the Trump administration's order to cut regulations.

Democratic Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Jeff Merkley of Oregon are questioning whether a former electric power lobbyist now at U.S. EPA can do her job due to alleged ethics conflicts.

The Department of Energy is relying on a "faulty premise" in conducting a study about grid reliability and subsidies, four industry groups told Energy Secretary Rick Perry today.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue's decision to eliminate a senior position overseeing rural energy and development programs has supporters of those programs asking: How much does the Trump administration care about rural America?

Shortly before last year's election, the Obama administration put together an Interior Department briefing book for its successors that detailed a flood of sexual harassment issues, cast doubt on the prospects for Endangered Species Act reform and made the case for imperiled energy regulations.

FLINT HILLS, Kan. -- Combustion has ancient roots here, where it's essential to preserving the United States' last major expanse of tallgrass prairie and, more lately, has become a tool for fattening cattle. But where there's fire, there's smoke.

West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection head Austin Caperton has denied an appeal request for the state's approval of the controversial Mountain Valley pipeline.

Nearly 40 percent of cans from four national retailers contain bisphenol A, or BPA, according to a new study.

A North Dakota lightning strike caused 325 barrels, or 13,650 gallons, of salt water to spill at a disposal well over the weekend.

Jackalyne Pfannenstiel, California clean energy advocate and industry pioneer, died on April 26 at the age of 69.

Some mining industry giants are using renewable energy to cut costs and emissions.

Tribes representing tens of thousands of indigenous people in the United States and Canada plan to sign a declaration today against the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

A coalition of more than 100 environmental groups is asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to halt construction on the Rover pipeline in Ohio.

Two homeowners near a Dominion Energy Inc. plant are suing the utility for several million dollars, saying that coal ash water that was dumped into a tributary of the Potomac River contaminated their drinking wells with toxic metals.

One of the nation's largest retailers is accusing three of the largest tuna brands of colluding to fix prices.

Two people died and dozens were injured yesterday when tornadoes flattened a mobile home park in Wisconsin and a housing subdivision in Oklahoma.

California regulators this week pushed forward on closing the last coastal sand mine in the country.

Visitors to National Park Service sites generated more than $18 billion in spending in 2016 — with nearly 10 percent of that attributable to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Blue Ridge Parkway — according to data published by the nonpartisan research group Headwaters Economics.

A utility giant has throw its weight into Virginia's upcoming gubernatorial primary.

Western governors want President Trump to adopt a suite of regulatory reforms that in some cases would treat states as "co-regulators," giving governors and state agencies more power on a host of federal land-use planning issues, water and air quality regulations, and energy development policies.

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