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A House Democrat born in Puerto Rico is asking the White House to extend the waiver of a shipping law for at least a year to aid the island's recovery from a devastating Category 5 hurricane last month.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Pebble LP CEO Tom Collier toured Alaska yesterday seeking to drum up support for his company's revised plan to mine massive gold and copper deposits in the Bristol Bay region.

Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk is offering to rebuild Puerto Rico's devastated grid with batteries and solar panels following Hurricane Maria.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry today defended his request for market reforms to boost coal and nuclear plants that critics have called a "grenade" for existing energy markets.

The Trump administration is proposing to repeal the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, arguing that the climate rule "exceeds the EPA's statutory authority," according to a copy of U.S. EPA's plans obtained by Politico.

Cara Mund had to tackle an unexpected topic during this year's Miss America pageant: climate change.

Two new studies are challenging common assumptions about natural gas production with repercussions in the "billions of dollars."

A U.S. EPA team is evaluating the agency's network of 10 regional offices to find the best approach for delivering services but has not yet decided whether any downsizing is warranted, Chief of Operations Henry Darwin said in an interview this morning.

Wyoming property rights attorney Karen Budd-Falen yesterday told E&E News she's being considered as the next director of the Bureau of Land Management, an agency she has clashed with throughout her career.

Packs of radioactive wild boars are roaming northern Sweden.

The Department of Agriculture has announced that mosquito spraying in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey did not compromise Texas' crop of organic rice, a big relief for growers.

A wild horse advocacy group is taking up another fight with the Bureau of Land Management, saying the agency removed more horses than allowed from public lands in southern Wyoming.

The supervisor of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks' Region 3 has retired after serving less than three years.

The U.S. Olympians who traveled to Brazil for the 2016 games at the peak of the Zika virus outbreak did not catch the virus. They did, however, come home with antibodies to other mosquito-borne illnesses.

Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk on Friday pushed back the reveal of the electric vehicle maker's big-rig truck to November.

California officials sent a harsh letter to the Trump administration Friday criticizing attempts to roll back greenhouse gas emissions and fuel efficiency standards.

With a court-ordered deadline looming next month, U.S. EPA is racing to complete guidance on how animal feeding operations should report releases of hazardous air pollution from manure.

One of the largest coal-fired power plants in Texas will be shut down, its owner announced Friday, underscoring the state of play in the hard-pressed coal industry as cheap natural gas makes the fuel less viable.

A North Dakota jury has convicted two men on multiple criminal charges after they shut down the Keystone pipeline a year ago.

A federal appeals court has rejected U.S. EPA's bid to squelch legal challenges to its handling of a key compliance milestone for the 2015 ground-level ozone standard, opting instead to freeze further proceedings for at least a month.

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