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Ranchers and the federal government have joined forces to preserve land on the Texas-Mexico border that's teeming with wildlife.

Former Rep. Toby Moffett (D-Conn.) has signed up to lobby for Caithness Energy, according to disclosure records filed with the Senate.

The Center for Regulatory Solutions is blasting the Obama administration for an alleged lack of transparency in crafting key regulations.

Former Obama administration official Juliette Kayyem watched her bid to succeed retiring Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) flame out Saturday when she failed to secure enough support at the state Democratic convention to appear on the September primary ballot.

John Podesta, a counselor to President Obama, took in some significant speaking fees before joining the White House.

A spotlight will shine on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in the coming weeks and months as members weigh in on a growing line of liquefied natural gas export terminals that appear to be successfully navigating the agency staff's environmental reviews.

Overseas sales of U.S. oil hit a 15-year high in April, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported today, casting a brighter spotlight on crude export limits that the Republican Party has yet to fully embrace easing despite growing industry pressure.

The full Senate is poised to take up a package of three fiscal 2015 appropriations bills tomorrow afternoon with debate likely to last through the week.

The National Mining Association's voice on air quality issues will move to the Edison Electric Institute later this month to help direct the utility group's response to U.S. EPA climate regulations for power plants.

Reining in U.S. power plants' greenhouse gas emissions may be one of President Obama's top priorities, but it'll be his successor who'll have to finish the job -- or try to undo it.

President Obama is escalating his attacks on "climate change deniers" in Congress.

President Clinton addressed the National Oceans Conference almost 16 years ago today, a speech that marked a second-term push for ocean conservation.

Coal's share of world energy consumption topped 30 percent in 2013, the highest level since 1970, BP PLC said in its newly released world energy statistical review.

The Bureau of Land Management is developing a sweeping plan to protect the Gunnison sage grouse in Colorado and Utah that involves amending land management plans in both states to install buffer zones around sensitive habitat, impose seasonal restrictions on oil and gas drilling and livestock grazing, and close roads and trails in occupied grouse habitat.

A decadelong battle over whether to drill for gas atop a wildlife-rich plateau in western Colorado could be nearing a resolution, with environmentalists, industry, Colorado's governor and the congressional delegation reportedly backing a proposed settlement.

A Japanese fleet killed 30 minke whales in its first "research" hunt since a court order by the United Nations in March halted the nation's Antarctic campaign, ruling it was for commercial purposes and not scientific ones, as Japan had claimed.

Unions are throwing their weight behind Boeing Co. and other industry groups in a fight against Washington state's plan to increase the fish consumption rate, an obscure figure that affects water quality standards.