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Many Oklahomans have not received the federal disaster aid they expected after tornadoes ripped through the state last year.

Grand Teton National Park officials yesterday confirmed one woman died and another person was seriously injured in separate incidents Monday in the northwestern Wyoming park.

A conservation group flew a banner over the MLB All-Star Game in downtown Minneapolis yesterday urging 3M Co. to end its relationship with pulp and paper suppliers with dubious forest practices.

Biologists have finally confirmed the birth of Utah's first California condor chick as the endangered bird tries to regain its foothold in the state.

The Fish and Wildlife Service's Pacific Region will reduce its use of neonicotinoid pesticides, aiming for an outright ban by January 2016.

Secretary of State John Kerry today named two top officials to advise him on Arctic issues.

The Highway Trust Fund's road-building account is holding up better than previously expected but remains on track to go dry before the end of the fiscal year, a newly updated Department of Transportation forecast indicates.

U.S. EPA is scrapping a final plan to collect debts by garnishing wages after it drew intense opposition from Republican lawmakers and right-leaning groups.

Former Democratic Rep. Robert Roe, who helped shape major infrastructure and environmental bills during his 23 years in the House, has died at age 90.

The House Natural Resources Committee today approved seven public lands and wildlife bills, including a measure that would streamline the export of certain kinds of snakes.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved legislation today meant to push back against the Obama administration's regulatory crackdown on pollution from Appalachian coal mining.

A metal recycling company in West Virginia failed to comply with recommended safety practices before a 2010 dust explosion killed three workers in 2010, according to new findings from federal investigators.

The Environment & Energy Legal Institute, a conservative-leaning group, blasted U.S. EPA in a new report over allegations of bias against agency critics' public records fee waiver requests.

One seat at the witness stand was conspicuously empty at a House oversight hearing this morning: President Obama's political chief didn't show.

ORRICK, Mo. -- Tom Waters is a practical man. A seventh-generation farmer with 5,000 acres, Waters carries a fat ring of gate keys in the pocket of his blue jeans, calculates acreage on his iPhone and faces the prospect of a new U.S. EPA regulation not with ideology, but with a simple question: What will it mean for him?

With the Senate taking controversial votes this week to confirm Norman Bay to be a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and to confirm Cheryl LaFleur to another five-year term, what will the politics of the Senate's deal mean for the commission's near-term effectiveness? During today's OnPoint, Marc Spitzer, a former FERC commissioner and now a partner at Steptoe & Johnson, discusses LaFleur's success rate as acting chairwoman, a role that has been extended for nine months as part of the deal, and weighs in on who could be named the next chairman of FERC.

The death toll from the strongest storm to hit the Philippines this year increased to 38 people today, and government officials estimate Typhoon Rammasun destroyed 7,000 homes and left behind millions of dollars of crop and property damage.

Chinese energy company CNOOC Group is looking at building a multibillion-dollar floating liquefied natural gas ship that it would likely use to tap gas reserves deep underneath the South China Sea, company officials said.