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Counties across the West should brace for a drastic cut in federal payments used for schools, roads and forestry work after Congress failed to extend Secure Rural Schools, the Forest Service announced last night.

House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) yesterday named the chairs of his five subcommittees and picked Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) as full committee vice chairwoman.

Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, who are often at odds on energy-related issues, are joining forces to stress the importance of carbon capture.

The House's new top watchdog is redecorating the Oversight and Government Reform Committee's hearing room.

Thirty-eight percent of Americans think climate change should be a top priority for the Obama administration this year, the second-lowest of all responses in a new Pew Research Center survey, though it's actually an increase from previous findings and the highest level of interest since 2007.

The Obama administration announced the launch today of a finance center and a proposal for establishing a new class of municipal bonds in a push to boost investment in U.S. water and transportation infrastructure.

U.S. EPA chief Gina McCarthy said today that if oil and natural gas operators do enough to reduce their current methane emissions voluntarily, methane rules for existing infrastructure might never be needed.

Jon Stewart issued a stinging rebuke of the ongoing debate over the Keystone XL oil pipeline on "The Daily Show" last night, apparently blaming activists for creating the controversy.

Out of the gate in 1993, the new Clinton administration confronted one of its most vexing environmental questions: Was there was a way to protect critical habitat for the northern spotted owl and not decimate the Pacific Northwest's timber industry?

The Obama administration yesterday said a federal appeals court "seriously misinterpreted" the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's jurisdiction when vacating a high-profile demand response rule last year -- and that the Supreme Court should review the case.

BP PLC faces a maximum $13.7 billion fine for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill after a federal judge yesterday ruled that the accident released more than 3 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

Last year was Earth's warmest year on record for both land and ocean surfaces, according to scientists at both NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The plunge in oil prices is forcing Alaska to cut budgets and reach into savings to offset increasing deficits.

A ruptured oil pipeline spilled up to 50,000 gallons of oil into the Yellowstone River near Glendive, Mont., officials said yesterday.

Top officials at the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality have reached out to U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy over a cleanup project at a Louisiana National Guard site.

A company with ties to Freedom Industries Inc., the firm that leaked a coal-cleaning chemical into Charleston, W.Va.-area drinking water supplies last year, has been cited for similar environmental violations.

An Iowa water treatment plant has agreed to file a risk management plan by July 31 after U.S. EPA officials found the site had dropped out of the key safety program more than five years ago.

Lifting the 40-year U.S. ban on crude oil exports would raise domestic production and lower gasoline prices, according to a new study by Columbia University.

BP PLC has announced it will lay off 200 staff and cut 100 contracting jobs due to plummeting oil prices.

GREELEY, Colo. -- Members of Colorado's Oil and Gas Task Force remained sharply divided Friday over how much say local governments should have in future oil and gas development in the state -- suggesting that the panel could face a difficult fight when it meets next month to publicly discuss its legislative and regulatory recommendations.

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