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Two Army Corps of Engineers reviews of the levee system in the New Orleans area raise serious questions about the system's stability and local districts' ability to maintain the levees between storms.

A bill that halts new water limits for White Bear Lake in the Twin Cities suburbs in Minnesota was signed into law Monday.

A Department of Energy cleanup contractor has earned nearly $10 million in incentives for its work at the Hanford nuclear reservation, despite the spread of radioactive contamination last year.

Black lung disease is on the rise among coal miners in Appalachia, according to a new group of studies.

Recent research reports a link between closures of coal- and oil-fired power plants and fewer premature births in the surrounding area.

Recently passed federal tax credits may do little to build carbon capture projects on some of the largest greenhouse gas emitters — coal and gas power plants — according to a report released this morning from former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and other Obama officials.

A trucking company and its owner have been found guilty on 13 federal charges stemming from a 2012 hazardous materials explosion that injured three workers at an oil processing plant.

Want to skip the security line at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit? Starting next term, the court will stream audio of all its oral arguments.

The South Florida Water Management District's snake hunters captured their 1,000th Burmese python yesterday.

After reporters discovered a sinkhole on the North Lawn of the White House, Twitter had its fun with "drain the swamp" jokes, but geologists saw an educational opportunity.

Sixty-eight national parks would be threatened under the Trump administration's proposal to expand oil and gas drilling off much of the nation's coastline, two conservation groups said today.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee has tapped Sarah Matthews to serve as its next press secretary and point person on all matters related to energy and the environment.

A group of Senate Democrats plan to introduce legislation before the end of this week to repeal language in the 2017 tax law that allows oil and gas drilling in a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today passed a modified version of a water infrastructure bill, the Water Resources Development Act, by voice vote after rejecting an amendment to help fight mercury pollution.

The National Park Service today named longtime leader Bob Vogel as the new director of its Southeast Region in Atlanta, putting him in charge of 70 parks.

As Congress continues to push EPA to do more to clean up the Great Lakes, questions are swirling over the fate of a board advising the agency in those efforts.

The Fish and Wildlife Service is clipping the wings of a Migratory Bird Treaty Act study begun almost exactly three years ago.

BISMARCK, N.D. — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today said his reorganization plan for the sprawling department will help promote the Trump administration's goal of increasing American energy production.

A decision by a three-judge panel last week removing an Indiana site from a list of the nation's most contaminated areas was an uncommon defeat for EPA in a Superfund listing case. "EPA has to work pretty hard to lose these cases," attorney Seth Jaffe blogged this week.

A cyclone battered an island off the coast of Yemen this morning.

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