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The Energy Department is studying "stranger things" like alternative dimensions, the mysterious death of a former president, and the link between diapers and the nation's nuclear stockpile.

All major energy stakeholders have had their say on the Department of Energy's directive to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to boost coal and nuclear plants.

Rep. Frank Pallone, an unassuming congressman who likes Native American art and Motown, doesn't stand out as a formidable opponent for President Trump or his Cabinet members.

See-through materials placed on windows or other glass surfaces could harness as much solar power as traditional panels and potentially be used everywhere from electric cars to skyscrapers, according to a study this week in Nature Energy.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has "significant concerns" with a tiny Montana company's $300 million deal to rebuild Puerto Rico's flattened power grid, the agency announced last night.

The Interior Department plans to eliminate by year's end an Obama-era leasing reform strategy designed to guide oil and natural gas development away from areas with high natural and cultural resource values.

Russian authorities are looking into the deaths of 141 Baikal earless seals that washed up on the shoreline of Lake Baikal in Siberia.

Conservationists and local officials in Idaho are one step closer to their decadeslong goal of establishing the country's first International Dark Sky Reserve.

Oklahoma lawmakers advanced two pieces of legislation yesterday that would eliminate tax credit rebates for coal and wind energy producers.

The Utah school board yesterday voted 10-4 to begin reconsidering science standards for the state's public schools, despite the objection of a few board members concerned that national standards push an "agenda" on climate science and evolution.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has repeatedly missed deadlines for deciding whether to expand disability compensation for Vietnam veterans who became ill after exposure to Agent Orange.

The hole in the planet's ozone layer is shrinking and reached its smallest peak size this year since 1988, according to NASA scientists.

The biggest port complex in the country yesterday adopted a plan to dramatically reduce its emissions.

U.S. EPA's internal watchdog plans to take a look at the agency's program to hire seniors.

DuPont Industrial Biosciences halted operations yesterday at its ethanol plant, further setting back the struggle to create biofuels that don't require food crops.

Oceana wants to reinitiate a lawsuit against federal agencies over the delay of a final rule on sea turtle protections in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean and took its case to D.C. District Court today.

Small-scale grape growers throughout California's wine country are seeing wineries deny their products due to smoke taint.

Grizzly bear populations are on the rise in Glacier and Yellowstone national parks, and some males are staking out territory in areas where they haven't been seen in more than a century, according to a new study.