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President Obama is again seeking to place Carlos Monje and Daniel Elliott in key transportation posts after the two failed to win Senate confirmation last year.

John Podesta is preparing to join Hillary Clinton's political team as she considers jumping into the 2016 race for the White House.

West Virginia Rep. Evan Jenkins secured a seat on the spending subcommittee charged with overseeing U.S. EPA and other land management agencies he routinely criticized in his campaign last fall.

Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.), returning chairman of a critical House Energy and Commerce subcommittee, told reporters today that he wants to move three bills to the House floor by this summer that would regulate disposal of coal combustion waste, reform 1970s toxic substances laws and inject money into the now-defunct Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site in Nevada.

House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte yesterday succeeded in winning the chamber's support for a bill aimed at reining in government regulations.

Lawmakers from the upper Midwest and Wyoming plan to introduce a bipartisan bill that would remove federal endangered species protections for gray wolves in their states.

A coalition formed to promote American liquefied natural gas exports has parted ways with its high-profile K Street representation.

State air regulators who split from the National Association of Clean Air Agencies two years ago over the 34-year-old nonprofit's positions supporting federal emission rules have their breakaway group up and running.

U.S. EPA is proposing new water protection and monitoring regulations for a controversial form of uranium mining, according to a copy obtained by Greenwire.

The Obama administration announced plans today to regulate methane emissions from new and modified oil and gas operations -- but not from existing pollution sources.

The White House this week unveiled its plans to regulate methane emissions from the oil and gas sector through a combination of voluntary and regulatory approaches. How will the Obama administration structure its rule proposal to meet its target of cutting methane 40 to 45 percent by 2025, back to 2012 levels? During today's OnPoint, Jeremy Symons, senior director of climate policy at the Environmental Defense Fund, discusses the plan and its impact on overall greenhouse gas emissions. He also discusses the role of natural gas as part of the administration's overall energy and climate policy.

The stigma of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster remains palpable for nearby sake producers.

Construction of China's first advanced nuclear reactor is facing another delay and is now not expected to start up until 2016 at the earliest.

China met its air and water pollution reduction goals for 2014, the country's environmental protection minister said today.

Catherine Mater, the head of the Oregon Transportation Commission, whom Gov. John Kitzhaber (D) fired this week, agreed with the governor on key issues but didn't consult closely enough with the administration.

Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead (R) took on what he called the Obama administration's anti-coal agenda in his State of the State address yesterday, describing it as an onslaught unlike any other he has seen against a single industry.

A South Carolina environmental group is suing a Columbia, S.C.-area wastewater plant over accusations of polluting the Saluda River.

Federally sanctioned tests of ballast water treatment systems are faulty because they do not show whether the equipment will scrub microbes from the water, according to a paper published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin.

California strawberry growers will be required to restrict their use of chloropicrin, a tear-gas-like pesticide applied to strawberries and other crops.

A New Jersey ink manufacturing plant's new dust collection system lasted just four days before exploding and burning seven workers -- showing the need for a federal combustible dust standard, Chemical Safety Board Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso said today.

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