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Duke University has tapped an environmental law expert with experience at the Justice Department and on Capitol Hill to lead its Climate and Energy Program.

A federal judge has agreed to U.S. EPA's request to stay litigation challenging its decision to declare three parts of East Texas in nonattainment for its 2010 sulfur dioxide standard, even as the state's largest power producer intends to close at least two of the coal-fired plants responsible for the bulk of the pollution.

Wild turkeys, once considered a landmark success in wildlife restoration, are becoming a nuisance for some people in and around Boston.

The company responsible for one of the worst fish farm escapes ever offered the Lummi Nation a premium price to catch the loose Atlantic salmon in exchange for the tribe's silence on a potential ban on net-pen farms in Washington state.

All but two chicks in an Adélie penguin colony in Antarctica starved this year.

The only tropical rainforest in the United States forest system was obliterated by Hurricane Maria.

Wildfires blazing through Northern California have left at least 31 people dead and covered the state in a sooty haze.

At a U.S. EPA listening session this week, attendees overwhelmingly told agency staff the controversial Pebble mine in southwestern Alaska threatens a key fishery and public health.

The widespread damage from wildfires in California's wine country could have been avoided with better fire management policies, researchers say.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) raised more money in the third quarter of 2017 than the combined efforts of the two main Republican hopefuls aiming for his seat, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Rep. Evan Jenkins.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced this morning that she will not run for governor in 2018, emphasizing her commitment to the Senate, where the centrist has become a key vote and a central figure in legislative opposition to President Trump.

The House's top watchdogs are tangling with Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) over his congressional testimony on the Flint drinking water crisis.

Not even the Congressional Coal Caucus is completely behind Energy Secretary Rick Perry's proposal to subsidize their organizing power source.

A draft bill that would give states authority to regulate oil and gas activity on federal lands sparked sharp disagreements among Republicans and Democrats today at a House National Resources subcommittee hearing.

The Commerce Department is targeting several U.S. EPA rules on air quality in a new report about streamlining permitting and regulations for manufacturing.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will get a wide berth for how it responds to Energy Secretary Rick Perry's grid-pricing proposal, FERC Chairman Neil Chatterjee said today.

President Trump's nomination of a former Texas regulator who's touted the benefits of carbon dioxide to lead the Council on Environmental Quality is being praised by industry but derided by environmentalists as "creative evil" and a "nightmare scenario."

Adrian Grenier has gained an outsized reputation for his role on "Entourage," but his environmental activism has flown under the radar.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry's former campaign manager who now represents clients with business before the agency has been in touch with top DOE officials to fill at least one vacancy, according to documents obtained by E&E News.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's special flag happens to be furled today, but questions about it have just begun flapping in the wind.

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