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Energy Secretary Rick Perry is calling the controversy over President Trump's communications with families of fallen soldiers "asinine."

Republican Rep. Pat Tiberi will resign and join a business group back home in Ohio, yet another sign of growing frustration among GOP lawmakers who have yet to pass a major agenda item despite control of Congress and the White House.

This winter will likely bring few major risks to energy markets, with predicted warm weather meaning moderate demand for fuel and electricity, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission staffers said today in a report challenging the accelerated timeline for a grid rule proposed by the Department of Energy.

A Senate vote is expected this afternoon on a measure to strip out language in the budget resolution that could lead to oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

President Trump is installing nominees at federal agencies to serve as "advisers" without a stamp of approval from Congress.

A smoky, toxic haze fell over New Delhi today as air pollution climbed to 18 times the healthy limit after residents launched fireworks late into the night to mark the Hindu festival of Diwali.

Elon Musk's Boring Co. will break ground in Maryland on a Hyperloop tunnel to Washington, Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said yesterday.

Thirty-one workers inhaled small amounts of radioactive material after a take-cover order in June at the Hanford nuclear reservation.

One of the world's most influential cancer research agencies omitted evidence in its review of glyphosate — a weedkiller used in Monsanto Co.'s signature product — that went against its conclusion that the chemical likely causes cancer in humans, according to a Reuters report.

Environmental pollution is deadlier than all the world's wars, and it kills more people every year than a plethora of other ills, from smoking and hunger to natural disasters, according to a new study.

The repair costs at Oroville Dam's flood control spillway will cost nearly double the previous estimate, California officials said yesterday.

U.S. EPA workers have found contamination levels 100 times higher than is safe for wildlife along the Animas River near the site of the Gold King mine spill, prompting questions about the agency's plans for long-term cleanup in Colorado's former mining communities.

Texas environmental regulators are likely to file an enforcement case against the company that burned tons of hazardous chemicals when Hurricane Harvey flooded its Houston-area plant.

Workers will expand a nuclear waste dump in New Mexico — the first mining operation at the site in three years, after a radiation release contaminated parts of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

BP PLC Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg will step down after a chaotic eight-year tenure leading the company's board.

The Navy and the Coast Guard are taking the first steps toward adding a new ship to the dwindling fleet of U.S. polar icebreakers, as the military looks to bolster its presence in the melting Arctic.

Coal's "keep it in the ground" critics today demanded regulators curb air pollution from Colorado's largest coal mine.

A 15-year-old boy is facing charges after being accused of igniting the Eagle Creek Fire, which has scorched large parts of the Columbia River Gorge since it began last month.

A federal judge has knocked down snowmobile advocates' challenges to land-use plans for two national forests in northern Idaho and western Montana.

Researchers trying to save the last surviving vaquita porpoises captured one for the first time but released it after determining it was too young to survive without its mother.

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