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The Fish and Wildlife Service yesterday proposed the downlisting of a small frog found in Southern California, the latest in a suite of proposals that have come after action from a conservative legal group.

U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy today promised renewable energy advocates that the Obama administration's climate rules would help grow the clean energy industry.

House Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) announced today that he will not seek re-election, opting instead to leave Congress next year to become a nationally syndicated radio talk show host.

The League of Conservation Voters today announced it will launch a series of Web ads praising or condemning 11 House member for their votes on H.R. 1459, a bill to curb presidents' powers to designate national monuments.

NEW YORK -- Tesla Motors has run into a brick wall in the Northeast that may jeopardize its ability to sell electric vehicles directly to consumers in one of the country's wealthiest car markets.

There should be very few trade secret exemptions to full public disclosure for companies participating in a hydraulic fracturing chemicals registry, according to a report approved today by leading energy experts who advise the secretary of Energy.

A legendary Senate environmentalist, Maine Democrat Edmund Muskie, staked out the reach of U.S. EPA regulatory authority during the 1972 debate over the Clean Water Act.

The entire natural gas system could be subject to new U.S. EPA regulations under the White House interagency guidance on methane released today.

Earlier this month, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ordered the North American Electric Reliability Corp. to develop a set of standards for the physical security of the most critical facilities on the electric grid. How are utilities responding, and what are their primary concerns as FERC considers this rule-based approach? During today's OnPoint, Sue Kelly, the incoming president and CEO of the American Public Power Association, discusses the NERC process and talks about the potential impact a small-scale attack could have on the grid.

A new bill passed by the Maryland Senate on Thursday would allow some clean energy gear, like solar panels or windmills, to be placed on agricultural easement land.

Rescue workers sifting through thick mud to find victims of last week's mudslide in Washington state also have to deal with a slew of toxic chemicals that may be present in the soil.

Months after a chemical leak fouled the water of more than 300,000 West Virginia residents, many remain cautious about drinking tap water, even though state officials say they no longer have reason to fear a foul-smelling contaminant.

Researchers reviewing a key U.S. EPA report on the scientific underpinnings of the major Clean Water Act regulation announced by the Obama administration last week have scheduled two public conference calls on their work.

A unit of Battelle Memorial Institute, the well-known nonprofit science and technology company, is touting new government grants that will allow it to increase the use of polluted water spewing out of coal mines for hydraulic fracturing operations.

A Pennsylvania teenager published a study that says the federal government could save millions of dollars in printing costs by using fonts with thinner letters.

Ford Motor Co.'s new electric vehicle ad takes a not-too-subtle swipe at Cadillac's latest plug-in hybrid commercial.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority violated contracting rules, overbilled the federal government and made other management errors during a 12-month period between April 2012 and March 2013, a new report shows.

Tesla Motors Inc. this week said it will use North American-sourced raw materials in order to generate less pollution.

The Chevy Chase, Md., Town Council broke state law in its handling of a closed-door meeting late last year on a major mass transit project with lobbyist Robert Shuster, the brother of House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.), according to an oversight board's newly released opinion.

Coal miners have created an illegal cottage industry in a corner of southwestern Poland where industrial mines have been shuttered for years.

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