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The Federal Highway Administration is doing a better job of overseeing state bridge inspections, but it has yet to fully implement a system for identifying national bridge safety risks, the Transportation Department's inspector general said in report released today.

A former Senate staffer has been named the Bureau of Reclamation's point person for Congress, local governments and the media at a time when the agency is grappling with the competing demands created by prolonged drought across large swaths of the West.

The Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement is detailing plans to further regulate blasting at strip mine operations.

The United Kingdom's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla Parker Bowles announced today that they will visit Washington, D.C., and Kentucky from March 17-20 to promote sustainability and efforts to combat climate change.

A New Jersey tuna fisherman faces federal charges more than three years after a pilot whale died from an apparent gunshot wound fired from a World War II-era rifle.

A federal appeals court today rejected a challenge to a cost-sharing program for an 800-mile oil pipeline in Alaska.

Environmental and consumer groups have joined the Justice Department in asking the Supreme Court to review a lower court's ruling that vacated the government's high-profile demand response program.

Sick sea lion pups continue to wash ashore in California, and scientists are blaming unusually warm waters for the high number of stranded animals.

Visitors are complaining after a private landowner shut the gate on the only direct route to a popular slot canyon near the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

Fish and Wildlife Service investigators are heavily involved in an investigation into a series of brown pelican mutilations in the Florida Keys this year, according to sources.

Fuel washed ashore from the 2010 BP oil spill had a permanent impact on the beach microbe populations, particularly those that other species depend on for nitrogen, according to a new study.

The Army Corps of Engineers is due to release a study that proposes expanding the Port of Nome to improve infrastructure along Alaska's west and north coast.

Edelman public relations has ended its business relationship with the American Petroleum Institute after more than a decade of partnership, according to reports.

More than 30 environmental and scientific organizations are urging the House and Senate Budget committees to reject the Obama administration's proposed cuts to Agriculture Department conservation programs in the fiscal 2016 budget.

Following fiery oil train derailments in West Virginia and Canada in the last week, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is calling on the Obama administration to address fresh concerns surrounding tank cars that are supposed to be safer than the older, puncture-prone DOT-111 models.

Lawmakers in Iowa, Ohio and Maryland have introduced bills to tighten regulations on manure fertilizer in the last week in efforts to protect waterways from algae-boosting nutrient pollution.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) today announced a May 5 special election to replace former Rep. Mike Grimm (R) in the state's 11th District.

House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) has hired a former Western oil and gas official to oversee the panel's federal lands work.

Meghan Conklin, a former Interior Department political appointee who was recently named the new Democratic staff director at the House Natural Resources Committee, has left the panel, according to sources.

The White House has extended its public comment period for revised draft guidance on how agencies should incorporate climate change into their operations and permitting, further delaying a process that has already stretched for more than four years.

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