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San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee in a surprise move yesterday threw his support behind a long-standing city proposal to break away from the massive utility Pacific Gas & Electric and purchase electricity independently.

Federal prosecutors in New Orleans have charged a Houston man with lying about a blowout preventer test on an offshore oil and gas platform in 2012.

The Montana Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Cloud Peak Energy Inc. over state tax authorities, who challenged the company's pricing of coal sales with affiliate companies.

A Baton Rouge, La., jury sided with DuPont Co. in a lawsuit brought by a former employee who claimed one of the company's chemical plants regularly leaked cancer-causing sulfur trioxide gas.

Sea Shepherd plans to build its "dream" ship to combat poaching in the Southern Ocean after receiving its largest-ever donation yesterday from Amsterdam's annual Good Money Gala.

A Montana man was found dead in Yellowstone National Park on Saturday by snowshoers hiking east of Mammoth Hot Springs.

The Agriculture Department's Farm Service Agency will allow landowners to enroll the unirrigated corners of crop fields in the Conservation Reserve Program, a system that pays farmers to convert highly erodible land to native grass fields.

A new study concludes that current practices to restore sagebrush removed for oil and gas development are not as effective as they could be at restoring the brush, which supports greater sage grouse and other species, to pre-drilling conditions.

Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) has joined the Hudson Institute, a think tank, as a distinguished fellow.

Murray Energy Corp. is blasting Ohio regulators for delaying a permit to mine under a section of Barkcamp State Park to extend the life of its Powhatan No. 6 mine.

Despite political rancor between a Republican Congress and President Obama, House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) today said a stand-alone, bipartisan bill to fast-track liquefied natural gas exports is expected to reach President Obama's desk and could get signed into law.

Lawmakers on the House Science panel couldn't even get through their organizational meeting without partisan sniping.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) acknowledged today that Republicans have had a few "stumbles" this month after trying to get off to a fast start in the opening weeks of the new Congress.

A deal is near to line up consideration of more amendments and clear the way for passage of legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, senators said today.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today called for vast new public works spending with legislation that would pour $1 trillion into roadwork, water pollution control efforts and other infrastructure projects between now and 2022.

A federal appeals court ruled this morning that the Clean Water Act shielded a coal mining company from liability for releases of the chemical element selenium.

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) yesterday introduced an amendment that would likely strip roadless protections on more than 17 million acres of public lands, a proposal that drew major blowback from conservationists.

The Obama administration today proposed opening new federal waters from Virginia to Georgia for oil and gas leasing, the first step in a potentially major expansion of drilling.

How could the Obama administration's recent proposed guidance for considering climate change as part of the government's environmental reviews affect the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's process for reviewing natural gas pipelines and LNG export terminals? During today's OnPoint, Marc Spitzer, a partner at Steptoe & Johnson and a former commissioner at FERC, discusses how a change to FERC's process could affect natural gas infrastructure investments.

The new Republican majority in the Minnesota House of Representatives and conservative Democratic Farmer-Labor lawmakers in the state Senate are taking aim at the state's environmental regulations.

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