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Energy Transfer Partners, the company operating the contentious Dakota Access pipeline, is facing scrutiny from regulators and activists after a series of leaks across the country.

Two people were killed and a third was injured in an explosion at a West Virginia industrial plant yesterday.

French President Emmanuel Macron told President Trump today not to take any swift action on the international climate commitments, as Republicans in the Senate urged Trump to "make a clean break from the Paris Agreement."

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to pass on a case challenging an Obama-era policy requiring industrial facilities to meet air pollution rules even when equipment breaks down.

A deadly virus is threatening the crawfish industry in south Louisiana.

A plan to protect the Great Barrier Reef is no longer viable due to the rapid pace of climate change, according to experts.

Environmentalists are planning to protest the Bureau of Land Management's planned June 13 online auction for oil and gas leases across about 196,000 acres in central Nevada.

Following a brief bidding war, a Utah trust lands parcel at an entrance to Canyonlands National Park sold for a record $2.5 million yesterday.

Standing Rock Sioux tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II is one of 10 candidates running for tribal leader.

Former Department of Energy official David Leiter has opened up a new lobby shop called Plurus Strategies.

The budget proposal President Trump released earlier this week would zero out funding for a half-dozen Fish and Wildlife Service youth programs — small cost-saving moves that conservationists believe would have outsized detrimental impacts if lawmakers were to agree to them.

The Bureau of Land Management's fiscal 2018 budget proposes to reassign potentially dozens of agency staff working on greater sage grouse and sagebrush conservation and restoration efforts into other agency programs.

House Natural Resources ranking member Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today cautioned Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke that only Congress has the authority to reduce the boundaries or revoke the status of national monuments, and asserted that any recommendations to President Trump to do so would be a "misuse of your time and the public's money."

Senators appeared to shrug off protester outbursts and anxiety over the Trump administration's budget cuts today to signal smooth sailing for President Trump's energy nominees.

When Montana Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke was nominated to lead the Interior Department, he signed an ethics agreement promising to resign "upon confirmation" from leadership posts in three organizations with financial ties to him and his family.

The Department of Energy has selected a Texas official as head of its loan office, according to sources.

The Government Accountability Office is accepting requests from lawmakers to review guidance documents and issue a legal opinion as to whether individual documents constitute rules under the Congressional Review Act, a GAO spokesman confirmed to E&E News.

Scientists fact-checked U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's congressional testimony on global warming in a paper published yesterday in the journal Nature Scientific Reports.