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California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa made a name for himself as one of President Obama's harshest critics.

The National Association of Clean Air Agencies has hired the research chief at a state utility regulators group as its next executive director.

Coal and nuclear plant closures may vex the Trump administration, but Energy Secretary Rick Perry says restricting one formidable driver — cheap natural gas — is not in the cards.

A nonprofit group that favors limited government has filed a lawsuit to determine whether the Justice Department consulted with a House Republican chairman to limit the release of documents under the Freedom of Information Act.

A Senate Appropriations subcommittee today approved a fiscal 2018 spending bill for agriculture that rejects many of the cuts proposed by the Trump administration and would provide about $500 million more in discretionary spending than a House proposal.

A federal court rejected today a bid by green groups to force U.S. EPA to act on a farm pesticide linked to children's health problems.

House appropriators are quietly urging the Trump administration to abandon proposed U.S. EPA regulations that would ban certain uses of three dangerous chemicals and restrict the number of hazardous waste reviews done by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Interior Department nominee David Bernhardt has kept advising California's politically active Westlands Water District even after he withdrew his formal registration as a lobbyist last year.

The House's budget proposal, set for markup tomorrow, could open up drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, much like President Trump's.

Beijing plans to cut its coal use by 5 million tons by 2020.

Thousands of cockroaches emerged from a Philadelphia sewer drain yesterday, covering an entire street in a single massive swarm and horrifying local residents.

Every new home in South Miami — and some undergoing large-scale renovation — will have to install solar panels under a new ordinance passed by the city commission.

Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg last week got to see firsthand how climate change is affecting Glacier National Park, but park officials canceled his meeting with one of the region's top climate scientists.

The beloved and bloody HBO series "Game of Thrones" is back for a new season, and some are saying the message about climate change is undeniable.

Two owners of an Indiana biofuel company yesterday received prison sentences for their roles in a $60 million fraud scheme, the Justice Department announced yesterday.

Too late and out of place.

U.S. EPA has agreed to revisit a contested plan to cut pollution from two Utah coal-fired power plants and is seeking to freeze litigation surrounding the plan, newly filed court documents indicate.

A growing number of people in Florida are fighting populations of invasive bufo toads that compete with native animals and threaten pets with a deadly toxin in their skin.

Eager beavers have the ability to engineer degraded land into wildlife-rich wetlands, according to a new study.

NOAA said it has reviewed its safety protocols for whale disentanglement teams and will allow them to resume operations after a veteran whale rescuer died during a whale-freeing mission last week.

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