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The Alabama Republican Senate primary, with a runoff scheduled for next month, is set for a dramatic finish.

A Democratic senator yesterday called for the FBI to investigate Carl Icahn, the mega-investor who urged the Trump administration to change a key provision of federal renewable fuels policy while he was a policy adviser to the White House.

House Democrats are demanding answers from U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt about reports of career staffers being cut out of the regulatory process.

Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon is seeking information on whether the FBI is looking at the possible hacking of a Trump political appointee at the Energy Department accused of posting lewd online comments.

Congressional leaders are weighing options to pay for relief and recovery efforts for areas affected by Hurricane Harvey, which Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) estimates will far exceed the roughly $120 billion response to Hurricane Katrina.

Companies are sending out fleets of drones to assess the damage left by Hurricane Harvey.

The confirmed death toll from Hurricane Harvey has climbed to at least 31, including a family whose van was swept off a bridge in Houston into a bayou.

A new hurricane index predicted the devastation that Hurricane Harvey would cause, according to one scientist who helped develop it.

U.S. EPA said yesterday it would waive seasonal restrictions on the sale of higher-ethanol fuel in 12 states and the District of Columbia in response to fuel shortages caused by Hurricane Harvey.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry authorized an emergency drawdown today of the nation's petroleum reserves along the Gulf Coast to offset fuel shortages and ease pressure on refineries bearing the brunt of Hurricane Harvey.

Ex-disaster chief Michael Brown is perhaps best known for being told by President George W. Bush in 2005, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," even as the federal government bungled its response to Hurricane Katrina.

The heads of President Trump's energy and environment agencies have taken an all-hands-on-deck approach to tackling Hurricane Harvey, bouncing from cable network interviews to meetings with local officials in Texas.

In a move that's drawing fierce criticism, the acting head of the National Park Service has rescinded a 2016 order by the Obama administration that called for a focus on climate change in managing natural resources in U.S. parks.

ATLANTA — Georgia Power Co. has put the fate of the nation's baseload nuclear power industry squarely in the hands of the five people who regulate them.

The Trump administration violated the law when it tried to delay a fossil fuel regulation that had already taken effect, a federal court ruled yesterday.

A burning chemical plant northeast of Houston today may reignite debates over federal and state efforts to limit public access to information about facilities that house potentially dangerous substances.

Containers of chemicals began to explode and burn at a flood-stricken plant outside Houston today, highlighting the ongoing problems Hurricane Harvey has created for the area's industrial base.

Tropical Storm Lidia has killed four people in the resort-heavy Los Cabos area, officials said today, as heavy rains hit Mexico's southern Baja California Peninsula.