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Taking advantage of a second chance to drive their points home, energy companies and trade associations filed dozens of reply comments this week to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission arguing their cases on the Energy Department's controversial grid proposal.

Pebble LP today hired former University of Alaska President and retired Major Gen. Mark Hamilton to be a top spokesman for its controversial mine proposal in southwestern Alaska.

Former Hill staffers from both sides of the aisle joined energy veterans today to launch a consulting firm, the Coefficient Group.

A former agribusiness lobbyist is leading the Department of Agriculture's regulatory reform efforts.

A coalition of environmental, taxpayer and insurance groups is urging House leadership to pass the latest version of a flood insurance reform bill.

The top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today urged his GOP counterpart to join his investigation of U.S. EPA's Superfund task force leader or get out of the way.

The House Science, Space and Technology Committee is exploring the possibility of having U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt testify, according to a letter today from the panel's chairman.

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee today advanced a series of nominations to lead energy, environmental and transportation jobs in the Trump administration.

With wildfires on the rise across the West, cameras are searching for early signs of flames in high-risk forests of California and Nevada.

A House panel today approved legislation to increase energy development on public lands and waters by reducing federal regulations, streamlining the permitting process and creating a revenue-sharing partnership with coastal states.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is now putting more public pressure on the Republican-controlled Senate to confirm the department's nominees who appear stuck in limbo.

President Trump's nominee to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality faced tough questions at her Senate confirmation hearing today from farm-state Republicans upset about her past criticism of biofuels.

President Trump's golf resort in Scotland has ruined a stretch of sand dunes, conservationists say, meaning the Aberdeenshire habitat might lose its protected status.

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, a vocal opponent of an environmental initiative aimed at reducing the city's "heat island" effect, has accepted the measure's likely passage.

Air Force officials said yesterday they will spend nearly $700,000 cleaning up 439 million gallons of drinking water contaminated by a base near Airway Heights, Wash.

Southern California's air quality board broke the law, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge decided, when it made changes to smog rules that were backed by the oil industry without giving the public enough time to comment before a vote.