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Deteriorating dams and locks on America's rivers are causing traffic jams for barges that often have to wait hours for infrastructure repairs that receive little funding.

Food and Drug Administration head Margaret Hamburg announced today she is stepping down after nearly six years as agency chief.

The Energy Department said it is sharing elements of its second comprehensive review of the nation's science and energy technology research and development that aims to provide "key input" into the agency's long-term strategy and priorities.

American renewables are producing almost double the energy they were in 2007, helping to spur billions of dollars in investment, according to the newly released "Sustainable Energy in America Factbook" by Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

The Keystone XL pipeline garners all the political limelight, but port projects in the Pacific Northwest could make the region a hub for exporting Canada oil sands products and maybe even U.S. crude, if the U.S. ban on shipping domestic oil overseas is lifted.

CSX Transportation Inc. is contesting key allegations in a rate-gouging complaint filed last month by a Michigan utility with the Surface Transportation Board.

The B Team, a coalition of A-list CEOs, pressed for net-zero emissions by 2050 today, a week before climate negotiators meet in Geneva to work on a draft climate change plan ahead of the Paris summit in December.

Attorney General Kamala Harris (D) said yesterday California will appeal a federal judge's decision last month striking down the state's ban on foie gras.

In an attempt to force the federal government to remove wild horses from state-trust lands, Utah has filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management.

A black-headed python either wanted a piece of a champion Australian race car driver or had just had enough of a preseason photo shoot at Sydney's Taronga Zoo.

Officials in Thailand have raided a Buddhist temple where more than 100 tigers are kept as they investigate possible links to wildlife trafficking.

A few lucky seabirds that were found covered in a mysterious, goo-like substance have been cleaned and released back into the wild near San Francisco Bay.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration needs to invest more money, manpower and attention on the endangered Hawaiian monk seal, according to a new report from the Marine Conservation Institute.

Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) introduced a bill this week, S. 345, that would limit crop insurance premiums to $50,000, a move that could save about $2.2 billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Amtrak's base budget would be kept roughly level next year at about $1.4 billion, with small annual increases after that, under a four-year bipartisan reauthorization bill introduced this morning by leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

Republicans on both sides of the Capitol reintroduced legislation yesterday aimed at limiting third-party litigants' roles in forcing federal agencies to regulate.

A majority of Senate Republicans opposed every climate change and clean-energy-related amendment to the Keystone XL bill that passed last week, according to a scorecard released today by the League of Conversation Voters.