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A Senate panel today approved a proposal to study the impacts of extreme weather on air travel after striking the words "climate change" from the provision.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz's (R-Utah) last day in Congress is tomorrow. He will join Fox News the following day as a political analyst.

The House Natural Resources panels that oversee federal lands and investigations now have new leadership.

Senate Democrats are offering legislation that would ensure U.S. EPA's regional offices will stay open during the Trump administration.

A Senate panel has easily advanced one nominee for a top Transportation Department post, while another faces a hold.

The Senate this afternoon advanced the nomination of Neomi Rao to be the lead gatekeeper of federal regulations and help shepherd the administration's deregulatory agenda.

A federal appeals court today overturned a lower-court ruling that U.S. EPA must evaluate coal industry job losses from recent air emissions rules.

The Fish and Wildlife Service today released proposed updates to its recovery plan for the Mexican gray wolf, predicting that the endangered subspecies could be delisted within 25 to 35 years.

The "not in my backyard" barrier to wind development has been overstated, and other factors play much more of a role in whether communities support the resource, according to a report from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

This is arguably the most contentious phrase in environmental law: "waters of the United States."

One of the world's hottest temperatures ever recorded came from the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz yesterday at 129 degrees Fahrenheit.

A region in northern China is suffering from its worst drought on record, with crops wilting and farmers and herders growing increasingly desperate to get water to farmlands, grasslands and households.

Three people in New Mexico have caught the plague, according to health officials.

Frisco, Texas, officials have raised new concerns over purchasing Exide Technologies land on which thousands of battery chips were recently found buried.

Doctors in South Dakota are trying a new type of prescription: a free day at any South Dakota state park or recreation area.

Two studies published yesterday suggest that common pesticides may harm bee colonies, contributing to the loss of not only worker bees but also queens.

Reservoirs in California are full to the brim after a winter of heavy precipitation and a spring heat wave that thawed a large portion of the state's snowpack.