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The Obama administration yesterday gave its final approval to a $10.3 billion hurricane protection project for southeast Louisiana that is a key point of contention in negotiations over a major water resources bill.

Republican leaders of a House Science, Space and Technology subcommittee took aim today at what has become one of environmentalists' most potent arguments for action on climate change: the view that global warming is driving more extreme weather events.

House Republicans are bashing U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy for taking a trip to China before visiting West Virginia and other coal states and are seeking to bar her from future foreign travel until she does.

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said today he has suspended his chief of staff after learning he's under investigation related to child pornography allegations.

Congress is poised to again tax future federal employees to appease current ones, creating a pension system that charges new workers more than five times as much as their veteran colleagues.

Federal whistle-blowers don't always sneak to secret meetings, ask Russia for asylum or have a movie made about their exploits.

The $2.3 billion clean energy manufacturing tax credits provided by the 2009 stimulus package were overshadowed by their noisy sister programs -- the renewable energy investment and production tax credits and the loan guarantee program.

Federal appellate judges today again threw out a U.S. EPA rule related to its approval of heavy-duty truck engines that did not meet its air standards.

Meet the Energy Department's salesman in chief: Ernest Moniz. Recruiting top talent for federal agencies can be a tough slog, particularly in an administration's second term. But Moniz is steadily filling out DOE's roster by relying on his salesmanship, longtime friendships and the promise of a sweeping energy policy report to lure in top talent.

With the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee convening an oversight hearing on the renewable fuel standard this week, what is the future of U.S. EPA's 2014 volume proposal? During today's OnPoint, Anne Steckel, vice president of federal affairs at the National Biodiesel Board, discusses this week's hearing and talks about the impact the agency's 2014 proposal could have on investments in her industry.

New Zealand yesterday dropped charges against the former owner of a shut-down coal mine where 29 workers died in a methane gas explosion last year.

The Chinese government is putting new regulations in place to ensure that pilots landing in Beijing know how to operate the plane in low visibility brought on by the city's smog.

A judge lodged a blow to a Los Angeles "smart growth" plan meant to encourage larger development in parts of Hollywood.

Pennsylvania House lawmakers have approved legislation that would allow the Pennsylvania Game Commission to establish a bounty on coyotes.

Richard Sullivan, the first commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, died Tuesday at age 86.

Facing criticism from government regulators in the United States and Europe who fear that the company's new form of pesticides is to blame for some of the world's bee population declines, Bayer Corp. is pushing back.

Federal regulators have closed 52 bus companies in a major crackdown on unsafe operators.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has agreed to forfeit some of its office space in response to complaints from Congress that it leased too much real estate.

Adora Andy Jenkins, who helped lead former U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's messaging at an agency under constant siege from critics, has left the Obama administration.

A transformer fire at a nuclear power plant in Arkansas has caused a temporary shutdown, officials said.

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