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Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) budget proposal to bolster California's water management will benefit the parched state, but many of his priorities lack long-term funding, a legislative watchdog said yesterday.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) today dismissed calls for stricter regulations of chemical storage facilities in the wake of a hazardous leak that left 300,000 West Virginians without drinking water for five days.

All federal employees likely will get a pay raise this year, thanks to a provision in the omnibus appropriations bill that extends the cost-of-living increase to so-called blue-collar workers.

The spending bill released yesterday by congressional appropriators would give the Agriculture Department an overall increase in discretionary funding but reduce its ability to fund biofuels projects.

A massive spending bill unveiled last night in Congress included a slight increase in the budget levels of the Energy Department's science programs but with particular instructions for an international effort on nuclear fusion and the national laboratories.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is taking issue with the House's assertion that its fiscal 2014 omnibus appropriations bill contains funding to maintain the viability of the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada.

Second in a series on environment and energy staffers.

More than four decades after Congress passed the nation's landmark clean water law, progress toward cleaning up the nation's rivers, lakes and creeks has stalled, largely due to uncontrolled pollution running off farms, parking lots and suburban lawns, a government watchdog said yesterday.

When he signs a massive spending bill into law later this week, President Obama will be quietly handing a small victory to critics of one of his highest-profile clean energy programs and implementing reforms that have been resisted by officials in the Department of Energy.

The Supreme Court struggled today with a Wyoming man's challenge to the Forest Service's construction of a bicycle trail across his property.

With a broad group of stakeholders all calling for comprehensive energy policy reform, could Congress be swayed to move legislation this year? During today's OnPoint, Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the Institute for 21st Century Energy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, introduces the Chamber's "Energy Works for US" platform and gives her take on the political feasibility of energy policy action this year. Harbert makes the case for master limited partnerships for renewable energy investments and talks about the Obama administration's recent launch of a Quadrennial Energy Review.

Concerns about restarting Japan's nuclear plants have stalled the country's plans to release its long-term energy strategy.

A decision to take a nuclear power plant offline was against the law, according to one of Germany's top courts.

A Democrat-controlled Colorado Senate committee is slated to mull a Republican proposal to nix a law that last year helped spark calls for secession from the state by a group of counties in the state's rural northeast.

California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) this week is standing by his decision to redirect cap-and-trade funds to the state's struggling high-speed rail project.

Five years after Congress banned from children's products several types of phthalates that were found to cause health problems, exposure to banned phthalates is down, according to new research. But larger quantities of different phthalates are being found in the environment.

Work to clean up soil and groundwater contamination at a Texas Superfund site has been successful, according to the site's first five-year review.

Car companies this week used the Detroit auto show to tout new technologies aimed at meeting strict fuel efficiency standards put in place by the Obama administration.

Boeing Co. is eyeing renewable diesel after an internal analysis found that the fuel has significant potential to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Solar panel installer SolarCity Corp. today said it will sell securities directly to individuals in a bid to finance the cost of its installations at thousands of homes.

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