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The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee this morning passed a handful of water-related bills, including one to battle trash in the oceans.

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee this morning narrowly approved Heidi King as the nation's top transportation safety official.

A House panel today passed three bills that aim to boost onshore energy independence and expedite the oil and gas permitting process, despite pushback from Democrats.

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is still hoping President Trump will subsidize coal-fired power plants separate from the machinations at the Department of Energy.

The head of the Department of Energy's loan program divested from a number of energy companies last year to avoid conflicts of interest.

The Government Accountability Office won't issue a ruling on whether Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke violated anti-lobbying laws last year when he reportedly contacted both Alaska senators during debate on health care legislation, pointing to the Interior Department's refusal to provide investigators with details about the incidents.

As EPA launches a review of its ground-level ozone standard that has already drawn congressional attention, a new report questions whether the existing 70-parts-per-billion threshold is tight enough to adequately protect the public.

The Fish and Wildlife Service today called for significant changes in the management of the North Carolina red wolf, an animal that has long been entangled in both science and politics.

Administrator Scott Pruitt has moved to restrict EPA's ability to nix water pollution permits, in a rebuke of how the Obama administration used the agency's veto power.

The Supreme Court today handed Florida a partial win in the long-running Southeast water wars, reviving the state's case against Georgia over water use in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin. The case, though, is far from over.

One of the hottest and driest summers in England is fueling a dry grassland wildfire east of Manchester.

A controlled burn turned into a wildfire that set fire to a Florida community Sunday, and a state official says a contractor hired by Florida's wildlife commission is to blame.

A state rule change could allow shuttered mines to be used for solar projects in Nevada.

A possibly damaging chemical and other compounds have been found in fish near a North Carolina chemical plant, according to state documents.

Atlantic Richfield Co., owned by BP PLC, is required to pay almost $29 million to clean up arsenic from a former lead smelter in Montana that is threatening groundwater, a federal judge decided.

Scientists have found a "robust" link between air pollution and thousands of infant deaths in sub-Saharan Africa.

Eighteen coal cars were thrown off the tracks when a train derailed yesterday in St. Albans, W.Va.

Facebook Inc. no longer plans to build a fleet of solar-powered drones, the company announced in a blog post yesterday.

The developer of a failed Wyoming coal project must spend 18 months in prison for defrauding the federal government, a federal judge ruled yesterday.

Researchers say that calculations used for decades to predict the degree of shaking and tremors buildings can withstand during earthquakes drastically underestimate the force quakes are likely to place on some West Coast structures.

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