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The Department of the Interior inspector general has begun a review of senior Obama administration officials using a vacation lodge in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park.

The ongoing domestic energy boom is fueling an alliance between representatives of U.S. companies that produce natural gas and foreign governments that want to purchase it, documents and interviews show.

With the Senate and House both taking up votes on the Keystone XL pipeline, is there enough momentum in Congress to get a bill to the president's desk? On today's The Cutting Edge, E&E Daily reporter Manuel Quiñones discusses the latest vote counts and the politics surrounding the push on pipeline legislation. He also talks about how the outcome could affect the Louisiana Senate runoff between Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) and Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy.

The price of an already controversial badger cull has opponents even more outraged than before.

The Green Party candidate for president in Zambia has an unconventional strategy to save the country's environment: Legalize marijuana.

The European Commission has eliminated the position of E.U. chief scientific adviser.

Newly minted West Virginia Parks and Recreation Chief Sam England said the state's park system has some urgent financial needs.

The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission yesterday approved a controversial plan aimed at stemming the transmission of disease from elk to cattle in the Paradise Valley north of Yellowstone National Park.

A Hawaiian county's new law banning genetically modified organism cultivation is being contested in federal court by Monsanto Co. and a unit of Dow Chemical Co., global companies at the forefront of genetically engineered corn development.

In an effort to revive deteriorating roads, the Michigan Senate yesterday approved steep hikes in the gas tax during the next four years.

Lawmakers in New Jersey approved two bills yesterday meant to impose new reforms in the wake of the "Bridgegate" scandal in Fort Lee, N.J., that drew scrutiny to Republican Gov. Chris Christie's administration.

The Department of Health and Environmental Control has agreed to hold a hearing next month about whether to reduce a $750,000 fine for an illegal sea wall built near Charleston, S.C.

Colorado has clamped down on emissions from oil and gas operations in its most populous region, but a new study indicates air pollution levels are holding steady, thanks to more wells than ever in the Denver-Julesburg Basin.

Dredging sediment from the Susquehanna River would do little to help improve the ecological health of the Chesapeake Bay, according to a new study conducted by the Army Corps of Engineers and Maryland officials.

Exposure to tobacco smoke and road pollution might contribute to childhood obesity, according to a study released this week by University of Southern California researchers.

U.S. EPA said it plans to offer power plants an alternative compliance option for meeting toxic air pollution standards during the times when they're starting up and shutting down production.

Amtrak's long-distance trains had a 50 percent chance of reaching their final destinations on time in September, an improvement over August but far worse than a year earlier, the passenger railroad's latest performance report shows.

The Army Corps of Engineers is taking steps to assess the vulnerability of its infrastructure as climate change begins to elevate sea levels and shift rain and snow patterns, but ultimately the government may need to move to a watershed-based approach to planning, the corps' top officer said yesterday.

One worker was killed and two were seriously injured yesterday in an accident at a Weld County, Colo., hydraulic fracturing site.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected environmentalists' request yesterday that the agency reconsider its approval of Freeport LNG Development LP's liquefied natural gas export project in Texas.

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