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A federal judge put the re-election campaign of Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) back on track after the Colorado Supreme Court kicked the six-term lawmaker off the ballot last week for using out-of-state residents to gather signatures in order to make the primary.

The National Wildlife Federation has hired Marcia Brownlee to lead its Artemis program, an effort aimed at engaging more women who hunt and fish to protect public lands and waters.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry has told lawmakers that no government funds paid for either his personal travel or trips his wife Anita made with the Department of Energy.

Senior Democrats on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee are questioning an EPA proposal floated last year to set up an office in Administrator Scott Pruitt's hometown of Tulsa, Okla.

The lobbyist whose wife's Capitol Hill condo was home to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt for part of last year recommended candidates for the agency's Science Advisory Board.

Former Bureau of Indian Affairs Director Bryan Rice allegedly bullied his agency's FOIA officer in December, according to an email that employee sent to Native American tribal leaders in late March.

A Washington fixture who for decades has worked to increase scrutiny surrounding federal regulations and the studies behind them is opposing EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's "secret science" proposal.

Top Senate Democrats are demanding a hearing with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt after reports surfaced yesterday that a lobbyist helped facilitate his trip to Morocco last year.

Tourists flock to the grounds of a psychiatric hospital in Australia's New South Wales to feed and take selfies with kangaroos, but a member of the state Parliament wants them to cut it out.

A dust storm with 80 mph winds along with heavy rain killed at least 91 people and injured 167 more in north and western India last night. Most of the damage occurred in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.

The government of the Pacific nation of Vanuatu has decided to permanently evacuate the roughly 10,000 people who live on one of its islands due to complications from a volcano.

A Florida neighborhood looks like the set of a disaster movie after a dozen sinkholes have opened up since last week.

Maryland's seafood industry has lost 40 percent of its workforce due to the visa lottery, leaving the crab business in crisis.

A citizen advisory board of the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality has rejected a proposal to charge fees for some public records.

Tesla Inc.'s quarterly earnings call yesterday turned into a testy exchange between Elon Musk and Wall Street analysts.

EPA yesterday awarded $30 million in grants to three states for air quality projects. Four of the nine projects aim to cut pollution by replacing wood stoves with cleaner appliances.

A Northern California water agency has delayed its vote on the state's twin tunnels proposal to next week.

The San Jacinto Waste Pits have spread toxic chemicals far and wide, but Texas regulators have largely ignored them, according to an analysis by the Houston Chronicle and Associated Press.

Six more American scientists will conduct climate research in France as part of French President Emmanuel Macron's "Make Our Planet Great Again" initiative.

Eric Lundgren, a leader in electronic waste recycling, must serve a 15-month prison sentence after an appeals court upheld a federal court sentence of copyright infringement.

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