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The Fish and Wildlife Service has received exponentially more public comments than usual on applications from two sportsmen to bring back trophies of black rhinoceros from international hunting expeditions.

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

Venezuela has gone back to K Street as the United States has set up new sanctions that have worried the country's oil and gas industry.

President Obama will deliver his State of the Union address on Jan. 20.

A top trucking industry lobbyist is going to work for a House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee, the committee's chairman, Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.), announced this morning.

Pro-free speech groups are warning Republican lawmakers that their investigation into environmentalists' interactions with U.S. EPA "has a chilling impact."

Sen.-elect Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) has hired a Democratic staffer to be a senior energy and environment adviser.

President Obama's nomination of Pennsylvania mine regulator Joseph Pizarchik to lead the federal Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement in July 2009 was opposed by environmentalists who saw him as too cozy with the coal industry.

Environmental groups sued U.S. EPA yesterday in hopes of forcing a crackdown on stormwater pollution, the latest move in a long-running battle over how to address one of the nation's most persistent water quality problems.

The Obama administration's release yesterday of new guidance for how climate change should factor into federal environmental reviews could prompt changes at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, analysts say.

U.S. EPA will release later today the first ever federal standards for the disposal of coal combustion waste -- and the regulations are not expected to treat the material as a hazardous substance, which would be a disappointment to environmental groups.

China's 1987 pollution law is getting an update, with harsher emission limits and fines, according to state-run news agency Xinhua.

A lawsuit filed yesterday in Los Angeles County Superior Court alleges that battery maker Exide Technologies willfully endangered the health of more than 60 children living near the firm's lead recycling plant in Vernon, Calif.

Railroads are renewing calls to reduce manpower aboard modern freight trains to a single engineer, but regulators and labor groups contend two is still better than one.

Gina McCarthy, Sally Jewell and Ernest Moniz won't be getting raises next year.

San Diego solar manufacturer Soitec is attempting to save its contracts after San Diego Gas & Electric ended its business relationship with the company.

Despite plunging prices and competitors leaving the business, Southwestern Energy Co. is sticking with gas drilling in Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana.

The Kentucky Public Service Commission on Friday approved the state's first utility-scale solar array, a 10-megawatt facility sharing 153 acres with a coal- and natural-gas-fired power plant southeast of Louisville.

Federal regulators are working closely with Royal Dutch Shell PLC as the company moves toward a new round of Arctic drilling next summer, documents show.

A nearly 50 percent drop in oil prices since this summer reflects a shift toward cleaner energy sources and not just supply, according to a new analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

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