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U.S. EPA is rolling out a new system for allowing states to file Clean Air Act plans electronically as a way to reduce costs and delays in plan reviews.

A space weather satellite originally proposed by former Vice President Al Gore (D) is set to launch today.

Federal workers say restrictions put in place following a conference spending scandal have slowed or stalled progress across multiple agencies.

Federal agencies are at risk of losing critical skill sets, a problem that could be exacerbated by a wave of employee retirements, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.

The U.S. EPA program that evaluates scientific studies to determine the safety of chemicals will keep its acting director after officials reportedly considered replacing him with another candidate.

A leader of the Department of Energy agency that funds risky, breakthrough energy technology announced today she is leaving the Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) next month.

A top Energy Department communications staffer has moved to a children's advocacy group after less than a year at DOE.

An Israeli energy company plans to build a $77.3 million solar field using energy storage technology that will generate electricity for 20 hours a day.

Minority groups in Florida are supporting utilities in their fight against incentives for rooftop solar installations.

Oil and gas trade groups and environmental activists are making their voices heard as the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management takes public comment on its controversial five-year offshore oil and gas leasing plan.

Montana and Wyoming have taken decidedly different approaches to the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, despite the regional neighbors' shared reliance on coal for electricity.

Former Massey Energy Co. executive Don Blankenship sued Alpha Natural Resources Inc. this week, saying the company had back-peddled on a previous agreement to pay for his legal fees in a criminal case related to the 2010 mine explosion that killed 29 workers in West Virginia.

A South Dakota man accused of driving drunk and killing two Fish and Wildlife Service researchers was convicted of vehicular homicide last week.

Environmental groups filed a motion in court Friday claiming that U.S. EPA's recent approval of a controversial herbicide violated the Endangered Species Act.

Several states challenging U.S. EPA's regime for controlling air pollution that drifts across state lines renewed their call Friday for federal judges to throw it out.

In a win for agribusiness groups, a U.S. District Court judge Friday approved an agreement they struck with U.S. EPA that the agency keep information on large livestock farms confidential pending the final resolution of a lawsuit on the issue.

World Wildlife Fund is pressuring Australia to strengthen protections of the Great Barrier Reef by launching an international campaign on the ecosystem's plight.

The Army Corps of Engineers last week reduced by 5,000 the number of double-crested cormorants to be killed to protect endangered salmon at the mouth of the Columbia River.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is proposing to expand a federal marine sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico by five times its current size.

The Obama administration's bid to offset wetlands damage done by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill by paying farmers to manage their land as habitat for migratory birds paid off, according to a new report from Mississippi State University.

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