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U.S. EPA staffers are still waiting for details about the next round of agency buyouts, and some employees are getting anxious, according to union officials.

U.S. EPA management is on a mission to hunt down the cash it handed out in the form of undeserved bonuses.

Satellites, radio transmissions and the power grid could be affected by a strong solar flare that should reach the planet by tomorrow and Saturday.

An FBI manager said the mysterious rifle attack on a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. substation outside San Jose, Calif., last year likely was not a sophisticated terrorist attack.

A coalition of oil refineries fighting to keep the crude export ban in place today released a poll of New Hampshire voters showing concern that lifting the ban could increase gasoline prices.

The head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission today backed the agency's rejection of internal calls to shutter California's sole nuclear plant over seismic concerns.

Imagine the Rocky Mountains without dense forests of iconic trees.

A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Dow Chemical Co. may not receive more than $1 billion in tax deductions stemming from a decade of transactions through "sham" partnerships promoted by the investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and the King & Spalding law firm.

No charges will be filed against a ferry operator after federal investigators could not determine whether the state ferry was responsible for killing an endangered humpback whale near Kodiak, Alaska, in July.

Advocates for animals argued in federal court today that the National Park Service's killing of deer in Washington, D.C.'s Rock Creek Park violates a 19th-century law that requires the agency to protect native species.

Breeding lionfish in Florida now can land you a year in prison and a $1,000 fine, according to new state rules designed to fight the expansion of the invasive species.

The Department of Transportation said it will stop work on a bridge in North Carolina's Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge in the Outer Banks, citing a federal appeals court decision in August that ruled against another bridge nearby.

Healthy coral reefs could result in healthy shark populations, according to a new study.

The Fish and Wildlife Service tomorrow will finalize protections for a rare plant found in Georgia.

A federal appeals court yesterday denied a bid by wild horse advocates to block the Bureau of Land Management's removal of roughly 800 wild horses from a checkerboard of public and private rangelands in southwest Wyoming in a win for ranchers and the state government.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. -- More than 200 sportsmen-dependent businesses today released a letter to the Bureau of Land Management urging it to protect backcountry hunting and fishing habitat as it seeks to revamp its land-use planning process.

Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) is carrying a slight lead over her GOP rival in the latest poll on North Carolina's hotly contested Senate race.

Some utilities and state regulators are trying to persuade U.S. EPA to scrap 2020 interim targets in its proposed climate change rule for power plants in favor of less-formal "check-in" obligations that would let states gradually ramp up to their final 2030 emission targets.

A bipartisan group of senators today asked U.S. EPA to give the public more time to comment on its existing power plant greenhouse gas draft rule, citing its complexity and potential to overhaul the U.S. power grid.

Leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee this morning unveiled a bipartisan Amtrak reauthorization bill that they said would encourage more investment in the passenger railroad's profitable Northeast Corridor and give states a larger role in managing routes.

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