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Two of President Obama's top environmental aides are declaring victory after the Supreme Court resurrected one of the administration's most controversial air pollution policies.

Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.) has been released from an Arkansas hospital after emergency heart surgery last week and is expected to make a full recovery, his doctor said.

Sens. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) have introduced legislation to prohibit agencies from giving bonuses to federal employees with conduct issues.

The spending bill that would fund the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration moved one step closer to House approval this morning, when an appropriations subcommittee unanimously passed it.

The House Homeland Security Committee this morning approved a bill by Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-Pa.) to reauthorize the Department of Homeland Security's Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Program after making a few more tweaks to the proposal that Democrats had requested.

The House Natural Resources Committee today voted to advance four GOP bills that supporters say would make positive reforms to the Endangered Species Act, following a sometimes fiery markup hearing in which Democrats argued the bills would hamper the federal government's efforts to protect sensitive wildlife.

A House committee today overhauled a bill to promote exports of liquefied natural gas before sending it to the floor.

A top State Department official today sought to tamp down a bipartisan fervor in Congress for faster liquefied natural gas exports to Europe to undermine Russia, indicating that such a push is too simplistic.

LA JOLLA, Calif. -- On a 70-degree April day, scientist Marty Ralph looked out his office window here toward a panoramic view of the Pacific Ocean. The sky was clear, the ocean was calm, and paragliders floated toward the water.

Pebble LP, the company that wants to develop a large copper and gold mine in southwestern Alaska, is making its case against a potential pre-emptive U.S. EPA veto of the project.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg today diverged from his ally in politically active environmentalism, Tom Steyer, on the volatile question of whether hydraulic fracturing of shale gas can safely help slow the march of climate change.

As the Obama administration combats wildlife trafficking, Richard Ruggiero prepares his team of conservation "foot soldiers."

With recent budget and personnel changes at U.S. EPA, does the agency have adequate resources in place to meet President Obama's aggressive Climate Action Plan deadlines? During today's OnPoint, Robert Sussman, former senior policy counsel at EPA, discusses the future of the existing source standard and subsequent state planning. Sussman also explains how this week's Supreme Court ruling on EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule could foreshadow the court's future consideration of Clean Air Act cases.

Scientists are trying to allay concerns that a dead blue whale washed up on an eastern Canadian shoreline will explode, but the problem of the rotting carcass's stench is undeniable.

A U.N. agency said Australia needs to do more to protect the Great Barrier Reef, although it backed away from putting the reef on a list of World Heritage sites in danger.

A plan by Tokyo Electric Power Co. and supported by the Japanese government to build a frozen underground wall to block water contamination at the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant needs more risk assessment, according to a company adviser.

Pollution regulators have granted $355,000 to a group of sailors and entrepreneurs trying to build wind-powered ferryboats to service San Francisco.

Two inmates are dead and as many as 150 inmates and officers are injured after an apparent gas explosion tore through a jail in the Florida Panhandle last night, a county spokeswoman said.

Scientists found trash including plastic bags, bottles and fishing nets on Europe's deepest ocean floors in one of the largest seabed surveys to date.

Some of the top executives of Freedom Industries Inc., the chemical company that filed for bankruptcy earlier this year after one of its leaky storage tanks fouled the water of 300,000 West Virginians, have been linked to another chemical company.

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