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Former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Neil Chatterjee met with a utility company that stood to benefit from a controversial proposal he was pushing to boost coal and nuclear, while simultaneously launching a coal-centric media blitz, according to documents obtained by E&E News.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt told lawmakers last week that he wants their help with what he's calling his agency's "war on lead."

The Interior Department has taken another step toward significantly altering one of the Obama administration's signature public lands initiatives, formally eliminating a temporary mining ban inside a Southern California renewable energy zone.

Backers of a natural gas pipeline network on the brink of shutdown can breathe easier for a couple of weeks. A federal court is no longer expected to issue an order today that would turn off a new project in the Southeast.

Senate leaders today outlined a deal to provide hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending for the military and domestic agencies over the next two years, and prevent a government shutdown.

A piece of the massive fatberg that clogged a London sewer last year is now available for public viewing in all its stomach-churning glory.

Thieves drilled a record number of illegal taps into Mexico's state-owned pipelines last year: 10,363, or about 28 per day on average.

A highly endangered Bornean orangutan died in Indonesia after taking 130 pellets from an air rifle, a conservation group said today.

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) said yesterday that he will reimburse Xcel Energy Inc. $37,000 for taking him and his wife to the Super Bowl in Minneapolis on Sunday.

Idaho Republican state lawmakers yesterday advanced a proposal to nix some references to climate change from new school science standards.

Destruction from the deadly mudslides in California last month was much worse than expected, and researchers want to change maps to better reflect where debris flow will travel before the next one hits.

There could be over 4,200 sites in Michigan vulnerable to contamination by toxic vapors, but state officials lack the staff or funding to test them all.

Minnesota's Department of Health found no cluster of cancer, premature births or low birth weight in an area where the 3M Co. polluted groundwater years ago.

U.S. EPA today unveiled a proposal to dramatically increase the fees it charges chemical companies to evaluate the safety of their products.

A cybersecurity slip subjected one Interior Department employee to potential prosecution and "placed at risk" the personal information of 182 other workers, investigators say.

A Portland, Ore., police officer lied about the law to stop a Dakota Access pipeline protester from filming him, he admitted in a memo released by state officials.