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The reauthorization of a law that allows land agencies to sell off parcels today received bipartisan support from House members and the Obama administration.

House Natural Resources Chairman Doc Hastings is asking the Obama administration to explain how its National Ocean Policy might affect dozens of regulations -- from endangered species protections to fisheries management.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected part of a plan yesterday floated by a Southern grid operator and utilities to comply with the agency's landmark Order 1000 rule over objections from Republican commissioners.

HORSETOOTH RESERVOIR, Colo. -- The Obama administration today announced a new initiative to identify and protect community water supplies from the threat of wildfires.

A group of Colorado county commissioners are so miffed by the state's new renewable energy requirements and other regulations that they are mulling a plan to secede.

Secretary Ernest Moniz outlined an ambitious effort to reorganize the Department of Energy in a memo and address to department staff yesterday, aiming to restructure the responsibilities of his top deputies and bringing in a cadre of senior advisers.

In what she called a "wicked cool day," Gina McCarthy was officially sworn in as U.S. EPA administrator this morning to begin a controversial, stacked agenda of climate change polices.

At Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, park rangers are trying to solve a geological mystery that has so far baffled experts: How can a 6-year-old survive four hours buried underneath 11 feet of sand?

The head of Oklahoma's Department of Environmental Quality said yesterday that he will retire on Oct. 1.

Alaska's Department of Natural Resources commissioner has been called for active duty with the military and is deploying to Afghanistan.

The same chemical linked to the West, Texas, fertilizer blast that killed 15 people and injured many more is manufactured 20 miles south of Pittsburgh.

The U.S. Department of Energy and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre last week launched a new facility meant to develop and sync operability between electric vehicles and infrastructure.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) yesterday said crude oil transported by rail should be carried in more secure tank cars.

A federal report determined heat was the likely cause behind last year's Union Pacific train derailment on a suburban bridge bordering the town of Glenview, Ill.

Employees at the Bonneville Power Administration should "speak out, voice any concerns, or lodge complaints with any authoritative body as they see fit, without fear of retaliation," the agency's acting head said in an email.

Momentum toward resolving much of Halliburton Co.'s private claims from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill has "recently slowed," according to a company executive.

A district court judge has overturned a permit that would have allowed a uranium mine to remain shuttered without any cleanup, according to an attorney for environmental groups.