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Former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Norman Bay is joining Duke University as a non-resident senior fellow.

A federal judge in Texas rejected a request by three churches to seek Federal Emergency Management Agency funds to rebuild their sanctuaries that were destroyed by Hurricane Harvey, in a case that challenges the legal boundary between church and state.

When narwhals hear human disturbances, they start to dive as their heart rates plummet and they move their flippers as fast as they can, a new study found.

The California Fish and Game Commission yesterday banned sport abalone diving next year in Northern California.

Hundreds of thoroughbred racehorses sprinted away from one of California's wildfires yesterday, but not all won the race.

At least 985 additional people died in Puerto Rico in the 40 days after Hurricane Maria compared with the same period in 2016.

Republican leaders of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee today threatened to cut off millions of dollars of U.S. funding for the World Health Organization's closely scrutinized cancer agency.

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Kevin McIntyre asked the Department of Energy yesterday for 30 more days to review DOE's controversial grid-pricing proposal.

Remember the Bone Zone?

Several federal agencies this week readied contingency plans in case Congress wasn't able to avert a government shutdown.

Coal executive Bob Murray said today the fate of his company doesn't hinge on a hot-button Department of Energy proposal aimed at offering a crutch to hobbled coal and nuclear power plants.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is instructing agency officials to effectively drop enforcement of one key facet of the New Source Review program, in what could be a prelude to broad changes in the handling of air permits for both new plants and expansions of existing facilities.

Eight years ago, the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove" stirred up international condemnation with graphic footage of dolphins being killed and their blood filling the waters.

In Alabama and Georgia, a storm system Friday knocked out power to tens of thousands of people. But in Corpus Christi, Texas, it brought snow for the first time in over a decade.

As Los Angeles extends a subway line west, paleontologists are standing by whenever anything interesting needs digging up.

Delaware's top court has overturned a weapons ban in the state's national parks and forests.

A federal judge Friday ordered crews to stop downing trees in a rare forest where developers want to build a strip mall.

Monsanto Co. is offering a cash-back incentive for farmers who spray an herbicide based on the controversial pesticide dicamba, as several states look to roll back the chemical's use.

Heated battles over coal mine reclamation in Wyoming, stoked by the bankruptcies of major coal companies, have softened into a constructive, if skeptical, conversation between environmentalists and mining groups.

Christopher Smith, a former Department of Energy assistant secretary for fossil energy during the Obama administration, has joined liquefied natural gas producer and exporter Cheniere Energy Inc.

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