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Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) has added a trio of hires to her staff on the panel.

Anna Aurilio is leaving Environment America after a decade serving as the director of the group's Washington, D.C., office.

The Interior Department has ordered independent scientists to stop a study on its offshore drilling safety and inspection program, prompting condemnation from the researchers and advocacy groups.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions yesterday ordered a review of federal prosecutors' missteps in the criminal case of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy following a mistrial declared this week, but did not indicate whether the Justice Department would pursue a new trial.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's plan to raise peak-season entry fees to $70 at 17 popular national parks has opponents searching for alternatives.

Last year, U.S. EPA told Missouri regulators their water quality standards for lakes and reservoirs lacked a scientific backbone and ordered a rewrite.

Gina McCarthy was a little star-struck.

Bill Ball knew the question was coming. When it did, he quit a U.S. EPA advisory panel before he could be fired.

China's top forestry official said the country this year will plant forests covering a region roughly the size of Ireland, China Daily reported today.

The British government said today it will require all coal-fired power plants to install carbon capture and storage technology by Oct. 1, 2025.

Starfish are devouring the Great Barrier Reef.

Officials in Spokane County, Wash., yesterday approved new regulations and fees for marijuana growers that they say will help pay for the costs of responding to complaints about stinky weed farms.

Freezing cold temperatures are spelling trouble for Maryland's oyster farms.

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality's backlog of inspections and permits could threaten air quality and public health, state auditors said in a report.

People on skies, snowshoes and snowmobiles have been helping scientists determine how much water will end up in reservoirs and rivers in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.

The Federal Transit Administration has withheld $15.8 million from Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia over their failure to create an independent Metro safety panel.

The continuing recovery of the Earth's ozone layer can be directly tied to an international chemical ban that's been in place for decades, according to a new study.

Oregon sued Monsanto Co. yesterday over decades of pollution from polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.

A federal appeals court has balked at U.S. EPA's bid for an open-ended hold on litigation surrounding emissions reduction requirements for several Arkansas power plants, instead extending the freeze for another 90 days.

Unusually cold weather in Florida is causing iguanas to fall from the trees.

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