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An Exxon Mobil Corp. subsidiary is having trouble selling more than 15 homes affected by a pipeline rupture last year.

Seven percent of the federal workforce comprises employees under the age of 30, the lowest figure in almost a decade.

The Four Corners coal-fired power plant is one of the oldest in the country and, because of its placement in the Navajo Nation, one of the most controversial.

A judge-shopping scandal between the California Public Utilities Commission and Pacific Gas and Electric Co. continues this week with a newly released email.

The Energy Department today announced $60 million for cutting-edge technology that will help detect, locate and measure methane emissions and provide personalized temperature regulation in buildings for improved energy efficiency.

A Montana judge sentenced a Colorado man to 80 years in prison for killing a schoolteacher as the rural Northern Plains coped with a spike in crime, a byproduct of the Bakken Shale oil boom.

Peruvian officials were angered today that Greenpeace has yet to provide the names of protesters who left footprints near the Nazca lines.

A federal appeals court yesterday denied a plea by environmental groups to reconsider its ruling that Texas is not liable for the deaths of endangered whooping cranes because of its water management.

A federal appeals court yesterday ruled that a controversial demand-response program can stay intact through Jan. 15 while the Obama administration seeks a Supreme Court review.

Despite no record-breaking heat in November, the fall of 2014 globally was the hottest September to November on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Denmark submitted a claim with the United Nations yesterday to about 900,000 square kilometers (348,000 square miles) of the continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean as the international race to secure as much of the oil-rich region as possible heats up with melting sea ice.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Friday will visit Northern California to discuss possible protections of the Berryessa Snow Mountain region, a recreation hot spot for residents in nearby San Francisco and Sacramento that the Bureau of Land Management calls an "outdoor wonderland."

Environmental groups and a slate of local officials are asking President Obama today to have U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy prepare her veto pen as a contentious 60-year-old levee project nears approval.

A coalition of wilderness and wildlife advocates is challenging a Forest Service plan to allow Arizona wildlife officials to land helicopters in the Tonto National Forest to study and remove bighorn sheep, arguing that the plan violates the Wilderness Act and other federal laws.

The Association of American Railroads (AAR) has added to its already lengthy lobbying lineup with the hiring of the small bipartisan firm of Whitmer & Worrall LLC, according to a newly filed registration with the Senate.

Provisions to boost the Energy Department's efforts on moving ideas from labs to the marketplace are set to move with the 2015 defense authorization bill awaiting the president's signature.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is calling on the Department of Energy to come up with a plan to deal with deteriorating tanks at the country's largest nuclear waste site.

Theo Colborn, one of the first scientists to draw attention to endocrine-disrupting chemicals and later spoke out against hydraulic fracturing, died yesterday. She was 87.

Seventh in a series on energy and environment staffers worth watching in 2015.

The United States is poised to tackle illegal fishing and seafood fraud on a broader scale than ever before, with the release today of a set of recommendations that calls for everything from "boat-to-plate" traceable fish to international enforcement.

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