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After a week officially on the job, Tony Tooke was sworn in as Forest Service chief today in a ceremony at the Department of Agriculture.

The nation's only underground nuclear waste storage facility doesn't have room for the tons of weapons-grade plutonium it will need to stockpile under a pact with Russia to downgrade the U.S. nuclear arsenal, according to the Government Accountability Office.

Julio Friedmann, a former Department of Energy principal deputy assistant secretary for fossil energy, is taking a leave of absence from his post at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to launch a new company and work with former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz on "deep decarbonization."

In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, environmental groups are giving U.S. EPA another three weeks to devise a long-overdue plan for cutting pollution from coal-fired power plants in Texas.

Monarch butterflies living west of the Rocky Mountains are on the brink of extinction, according to a new study.

A Virginia businessman is challenging the National Park Service over the ownership of a massive sandbar.

The wildfires currently scorching the West — and increasing future blazes due to climate change — could have long-term effects on the region's water supply and quality, according to a new study from the U.S. Geological Survey.

Some social media users have been duped by a hoax claiming that sharks are caught in Hurricane Irma.

Three hurricanes are churning in the Atlantic Basin for the first time in seven years.

Some of the world's most beautiful and exclusive tourist destinations have been savaged by Hurricane Irma, and now Florida's coasts are emptying in anticipation of what could be a catastrophic blow this weekend.

A task force of federal and state environmental regulators will monitor chemical sites and landfills around Houston that were affected by Hurricane Harvey, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said yesterday.

Houston residents are complaining of headaches, nausea, itchy skin and sore throats — all possible signs of chemical exposure.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt doesn't think that now — amid preparations for the second major hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. in recent weeks — is the right time to talk about climate change.

The Army Corps of Engineers is warning residents of three Florida counties that Lake Okeechobee could overflow at construction sites along the Herbert Hoover Dike due to Hurricane Irma.

The House today sent a $15 billion relief package for Hurricane Harvey to President Trump, doing so over the objections of dozens of Republicans who voted "no" to protest the inclusion of a short-term debt limit extension.

Kristine Svinicki, chairwoman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, appeared this week to shrug off a recommendation directed at her agency in the Department of Energy's recent study of electric grid reliability.

Miles Keogh still considers himself a "surfer kid."

Interior Department investigators blasted the Bureau of Reclamation today for lack of transparency in its handling of money in a controversial California water project.

The Interior Department is slowly bringing back to life some Bureau of Land Management resource advisory councils that have been suspended for months amid an ongoing review of dozens of advisory panels that has already sparked major changes.

The House this morning rejected efforts to maintain Obama-era protections related to drilling, as well as a measure that called for a 1 percent across-the-board cut to programs in fiscal 2018 spending for the Interior Department and U.S. EPA.

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