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Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) said today the Interior Department's acting inspector general, Mary Kendall, should be held in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over documents following a March subpoena.

The Energy and Natural Resources Committee this morning advanced the nomination of Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall to be deputy secretary at the Department of Energy.

U.S. EPA has proposed a package of changes to the requirements for states to monitor concentrations of pollutants in the air.

U.S. EPA Region 7 Administrator Karl Brooks is defending his agency's work with agricultural producers against recent claims by Nebraska officials that EPA poses a threat to the sector.

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- While some coastal property owners recoil at the idea of anything marring their view of the water, many are coming to a stark realization: "Living shorelines" -- with native grasses and rock or oyster-reef breakwaters -- may be the only option left for countering rising seas and eroding shoreline.

PERDIDO BEACH, Ala. -- Early explorers named this area Perdido, the Spanish word for "lost," because it was apparently so hard to find -- tucked away on a bay that stretches for miles. The eponym may be more appropriate today than ever, with the beachfront here disappearing at the rate of 2 feet per year in a number of spots.

Researchers have flown dozens of mountain chicken frogs from zoos in the United Kingdom back to the small Caribbean island where they were removed five years ago to escape a fungal virus that has decimated amphibian populations around the world.

A salamander that can regenerate limbs and even brain tissue is fighting for survival amid Mexico City sprawl.

A mining conglomerate has agreed to set up a $151 million trust fund after a mine leaked copper sulfate laced with acid and heavy metals into two northern Mexico rivers, officials said yesterday.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval (R) has signed a series of bills to provide $1.3 billion in tax breaks and other incentives to Tesla Motors Inc. to make it easier for the company to build a large battery factory in the state.

President Obama declared a major disaster yesterday in parts of California hit by a magnitude-6.0 earthquake last month, making the region eligible for federal aid.

U.S. EPA is registering a new chemical to kill nematodes without fumigation, in an effort to phase out chemicals that deplete the ozone layer.

Water marketers are looking to solve Central Texas' water problem amid the ongoing drought using the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer, but local residents and environmental groups are worried about the long-term effects of tapping the relatively untouched groundwater reserve.

Areas of Colorado that were devastated by massive floods one year ago are slowly recovering, though questions remain over just how the state will rebuild the public infrastructure that was destroyed.

The state of Minnesota yesterday finalized new regulations to reduce mercury emissions from iron ore mining and processing facilities in the Lake Superior Basin.

A varied array of 72 projects around the country will split almost $600 million in federal TIGER grant funding, the Department of Transportation announced this morning.

A U.S. EPA employee union wants the agency's Office of Civil Rights to investigate allegations of segregation in the agency's Chicago-based office.

U.S. EPA spokeswoman Alisha Johnson is leaving the agency for a new post in the State Department's press shop.

A Florida nuclear plant yesterday won approval from state officials to use millions more gallons of water to control rising temperatures at the plant's cooling canals.

A Humane Society worker has created a plan to save invasive red slider turtles that have been banned in Montana by filling up a trailer with the reptiles and wheeling them back to a lake in Texas, where the species is native.

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