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U.S. EPA's internal watchdog found the agency ran up a hefty price tag for its employees' parking, with some spots left empty.

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel has backed up a U.S. EPA whistleblower who found the agency was taking years to process workplace discrimination complaints.

The North American nuclear industry reached a milestone this week in the long march toward developing and commercializing advanced nuclear technology.

Critics are assailing the Trump administration's decision to abandon a global anti-corruption initiative.

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg announced today that he plans to expand his $164 million "war on coal" campaign to Europe — and eventually to the rest of the world — with an influx of $50 million.

The settlement of a federal lawsuit yesterday ended a decadelong fight over land near the Red River in North Texas that pitted ranchers against federal agents.

After a loss in the U.S. Supreme Court this year, the owners of a much-disputed parcel of lakefront property in Wisconsin scored a victory this week.

LAS VEGAS — Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro yesterday handed a technical victory to Cliven Bundy and his co-defendants, ordering federal prosecutors to disclose details about surveillance cameras — including potential FBI reports or recordings — trained on the rancher's Bunkerville, Nev., home in early 2014.

Scientists have halted an international plan to capture and save the endangered vaquita porpoise from extinction.

Nearly two months after Hurricane Maria brought mass destruction to Puerto Rico, the situation remains largely unsettled.

Westlands Water District and its well-placed political allies must find another way to push a controversial irrigation drainage deal, now that congressional lawmakers have kept it off an unrelated defense bill.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) have penned an op-ed in The Washington Post promising that the U.S. government has not forgotten the islands devastated by Hurricanes Irma and Maria.

More than 50 Democrats in Congress slammed the Trump administration's proposal to repeal a greenhouse gas measuring requirement for highway planners.

President Trump's pick to fill a vacant seat in the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is headed to the full Senate.

The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry this morning approved legislation to allow the government to release or sell public lands and designate other areas for wilderness preservation.

Virginia Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte said today that he will not run for re-election.

The House Ways and Means Committee this morning turned back a Democratic effort to keep intact a 2015 deal that extended key renewable energy tax breaks.

Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain would bring in about $1.1 billion for Uncle Sam over the next decade after the federal government splits the revenue with Alaska, the Congressional Budget Office said yesterday.

Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman confirmed at last yesterday that she will run for governor, joining a packed Republican primary.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is at the fulcrum of many of the hottest controversies in Washington these days. But during a speech to business leaders this morning, Rosenstein ignored the many 800-pound gorillas in the room and instead touted the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to review and reform regulations.

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