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The U.S. EPA inspector general said the Chemical Safety Board's tight budget over the years has hurt the agency's ability to hire and retain staff.

Google and Tri Alpha Energy Inc., a leading nuclear fusion company, have developed a computer algorithm that has significantly sped up research on the futuristic energy technology.

With California increasingly relying on solar to power its electric grid, state regulators are asking residents to conserve power during the solar eclipse set to darken skies across the country next month.

The Trump administration has gotten another extension to file its response to former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship's request for the Supreme Court to take up an appeal of his conviction regarding the April 2010 explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine.

Idaho wildlife officials have proposed bounties for wolves that kill livestock and legalizing baiting.

Gregory Burleson was sentenced yesterday to 68 years in prison for his role in the 2014 standoff between federal agents and backers of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.

Archaeological sites and cliffs at Mesa Verde National Park have been vandalized and now have graffiti with names and social media symbols, park officials said.

Several outdoor recreation retailers made clear their objections to Utah GOP stances on national monuments and public lands as they closed down their last trade show in the state yesterday.

A Washington state company said today it has lined up financing to build North America's first plant turning straw from wheat and alfalfa into a key ingredient in paper.

Former Interior Secretary Sally Jewell criticized her successor's national monument "review," saying that shrinking Bears Ears National Monument and other designations will pose a major threat to public lands.

NOAA announced last night that it will extend the comment period for its review of 11 national marine sanctuaries and marine national monuments as the Trump administration contemplates whether to open those areas to oil and gas development.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's tour of national monuments sites will continue next week when he heads to Nevada, according to Silver State officials.

The Interior Department's proposal for offering three parcels near Utah's Dinosaur National Monument in an oil and gas lease sale is getting pushback from an unexpected source: the state's conservative Republican governor.

At a markup dominated by debate about the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee this morning reported by voice vote a measure to reform a popular U.S. EPA land cleanup program.

Senate lawmakers may move to take up the National Defense Authorization Act legislation tomorrow after the chamber finishes work on health care reform, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said this morning.

The Senate Appropriations Committee today voted 30-1 for legislation that would cut spending for NOAA in fiscal 2018 but rejected many of President Trump's proposals to scrap key programs, including the Marine Mammal Commission.

President Trump has pulled in more Capitol Hill staffers and former utility executives and lawyers with deep red-state political connections to fill the ranks of the Energy Department, even as the agency continues to stumble along with few nominations for top jobs.

U.S. EPA is pushing back at claims by a former transition official who criticized Administrator Scott Pruitt's leadership.

President Trump's reported pick to lead U.S. EPA's Office of Water has represented states and industry in lawsuits against the agency — some of which were filed by then-Oklahoma Attorney General and now EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski said today that a phone call from President Trump on the health care vote preceded reported pressure from the Interior secretary linking the Alaska Republican's vote to energy development policies in her home state. "It was not a very pleasant call," she told E&E News of the Tuesday conversation with Trump.

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