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The agency hearing appeals from nearly 33,000 federal workers furloughed after the sequestration in 2013 is reporting that 99.5 percent of the employees have lost their cases.

The Government Accountability Office included several energy and environment government programs on its list of federal projects at high risk of waste and fraud.

The Energy Department is setting up a dedicated office to promote technology transfers from the laboratory to the market, the head of the agency told reporters today.

Apple Inc. is building an $850 million solar energy farm in Monterey County, Calif., that will generate power for all its California facilities, Chief Executive Tim Cook announced yesterday.

A lawsuit against U.S. EPA over the impacts of ocean acidification on Oregon's and Washington's oysters is getting a hearing tomorrow.

U.S. EPA has approved North Dakota's plan to address regional haze more than eight months after the Supreme Court declined to review the state's challenge to the program.

The anti-whaling activist group Sea Shepherd plans to take its long-running legal fight with Japanese researchers to the Supreme Court.

Native American activists descended on Montana's capital yesterday to protest the slaughter of hundreds of bison from the Yellowstone National Park area.

The San Diego Zoo's stockpile of genetic material collected from deceased endangered species could be the last hope for the survival of the northern white rhinoceros and dozens of other species.

Forest officials in Colorado and Wyoming are shifting their tactics in the battle against invasive pine beetles.

Heavy traffic and increased attendance have worn down many roads and facilities in national parks across the country, and park managers are looking to increased entrance fees to fund improvements.

Hibernation is ending earlier than normal for Yellowstone National Park's grizzly bears because of above-average temperatures, according to a park spokesman.

Cleanup is underway at the Petroglyph National Monument outside Albuquerque, N.M., after the park's new superintendent and his guide stumbled upon a graffitied cave and trash-filled canyon in an area dotted with thousands of examples of ancient Pueblo Indian rock art.

A northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf that wandered hundreds of miles to the north rim of the Grand Canyon was struck down by a Utah hunter's bullet late last December, the Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed today.

A coalition of oil and natural gas industry groups is formally challenging a management plan for northwest Colorado's White River National Forest that proposes closing its Thompson Divide area to new leasing, saying the plan is tainted by political interference from Washington, D.C., and is based on a flawed analysis of drilling impacts.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) yesterday signed an executive order designed to conserve greater sage grouse and prevent what Herbert has argued are unneeded federal protections under the Endangered Species Act.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is again fast-tracking the Amtrak reauthorization, with a markup scheduled for tomorrow morning on legislation that was introduced only last week.

The Obama administration's timeline for finalizing a controversial water rule has slipped from spring to summer, the Army Corps of Engineers' top official said today.

Keystone XL developer TransCanada Corp. rebuts U.S. EPA warnings about the hot-button project's potential climate impacts in a letter sent yesterday to the State Department.

The White House yesterday defended President Obama's statement in an interview this week that the news media play up stories about international terrorism and other dramatic events, giving the impression that climate change poses less of a threat by comparison.

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