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U.S. EPA chief Gina McCarthy yesterday toured what one student called the only high school in the country raising lobsters during a return trip to Connecticut.

Former Energy Department Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman started a new gig yesterday as a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Federal Highway Administration employees were sometimes far off the mark in forecasting the cost of particular contracts, according to an audit that raises questions about whether the winning bids necessarily represented the best deal for the government.

Part of a Sunoco Logistics oil pipeline remained shut down yesterday after the company found a leak Monday.

Lockheed Martin Corp. today announced it will develop a compact nuclear fusion reactor that could be ready within a decade.

The whisper that crackled over the VHF radio only told the polar bear patrol, "Qanitchaq, nanuq": Arctic entryway, polar bear.

A portion of a public oyster-harvesting area has been delayed from opening "until further notice," the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said yesterday, citing low oyster numbers.

The number of horses rounded up by the Bureau of Land Management in southern Wyoming in recent weeks exceeded the agency's expectations.

The Fish and Wildlife Service announced yesterday that it will give the public more time to weigh in on a controversial critical habitat designation, in response to a request last week from Republican lawmakers.

Ryan Thompson, former chief of staff to Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), is now lobbying for Emerald Oil Inc.

With less than three weeks to go before the election, House Democrats are not poised to retake control of the chamber, but the party is in better shape now than it was at a similar point in the dismal 2010 cycle, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's chairman told reporters today.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a television ad today slamming Kansas independent Senate nominee Greg Orman for staying "silent" on the Keystone XL pipeline.

Iowa Libertarian Senate nominee Doug Butzier died Monday when his plane crashed near Dubuque Regional Airport.

Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) touted her support for the Pelican State's oil and gas industry as she urged voters to back her re-election bid while Rep. Bill Cassidy (R) said a Democratic majority would hurt the state's economy, as the duo faced off last night in their first public debate.

Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) urged voters to give him a 20th term in the House amid a string of accusations last night from his Republican challenger, state Sen. Evan Jenkins, who says Rahall has forsaken the state's coal miners.

The Forest Service's motto "land of many uses" describes the multitude of activities it allows on more than 150 forests across the country -- everything from hiking and camping to oil and gas drilling, logging, grazing, and other commercial endeavors.

Federal judges yesterday ruled that Marine families suffering health effects from groundwater contamination at a North Carolina base cannot sue the government for damages because a time limit on their claims has run out.

U.S. EPA today approved a new pesticide product designed for use with new crops engineered to tolerate the herbicide 2,4-D.

TUCSON, Ariz. -- When federal lawyers accused a real estate developer of bulldozing 5 miles of the Santa Cruz River to make room for a 67,000-home community in the Sonoran Desert during the heady Sun Belt boom years, they must have thought they had a slam dunk case.

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Desert dwellers don't take their water for granted. Here, water rights are property rights, and even discharging treated sewage into a stream is seen as a waste of a perfectly good resource. On the few occasions a year when it does rain in the desert, it's not unusual for people to skip work -- partly to avoid white-knuckled drivers but mostly to luxuriate in the abundance. In a place that values its water so much, it might seem as it would be easy to find someone supportive of the Obama administration's effort to extend automatic protections to streams and creeks that officials say are vital to habitat and drinking water supplies. It's not.

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