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The Agriculture Department's Risk Management Agency should require farmers in areas prone to drought, floods or other natural disasters to pay higher premiums for crop insurance, the Government Accountability Office recommended recently.

Jason Hughes spent most of the last year modifying a 1,400-pound battery he took from a wrecked Tesla Model S and repurposing it to store electricity from his solar-power system.

The Energy Department today moved to quash speculation among House Republicans that the Pentagon is considering alternative uses for the contentious Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site in Nevada.

Employees from many Florida state agencies have come forward to say a ban on using the terms "climate change" and "global warming" was not limited to just the Department of Environmental Protection.

The next nine months must deliver a meaningful international agreement on climate change or future generations "will not and should not forgive," Secretary of State John Kerry said today.

A member of the Crow Tribe in Montana pleaded guilty Monday to poaching charges, but the other two men implicated in the taking of three elk in northern Wyoming last year plan to fight the charges using 147-year-old treaty rights.

A federal appeals court has upheld a district court's decision to dismiss manslaughter charges against two BP PLC employees for their roles in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people.

A dam is at the center of an international debate over a management plan for Lake Ontario.

Big game ranch owners in Africa are breeding "mutant" wildlife to attract hunters with large pocketbooks.

Once dubbed "America's Most Dangerous Park" due to drug smuggling activity at the border, Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is now a visitor hot spot thanks to tougher law enforcement.

American Express Co. today committed to spend $5 million over the next two years supporting the Interior Department's youth volunteering initiative.

Oil production on federal lands rose nearly 10 percent in fiscal 2014, while natural gas production fell by roughly 6 percent, according to the latest data from the Interior Department.

Some Northeastern fishermen may soon have to pay for their own "at-sea monitors," even as they face financial hardships amid declining numbers of cod and other groundfish species.

A transportation construction trade group today proposed coupling a 15-cent-per-gallon increase in the federal gas tax with an income tax rebate for most Americans.

The United States is moving away from coal and needs to help communities dependent on the fuel to make the transition, Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview with Vice News.

Former House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) has joined PricewaterhouseCoopers.

During future government shutdowns, senators would be required to remain on Capital Hill -- or face arrest if they don't appear on the Senate floor -- until they iron out their differences and reopen Congress, under new legislation proposed today.

Republican Sen. John Barrasso today blasted a top former Energy Department official's move to a uranium enrichment company that the senator said has had an "improper" relationship with the government.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) today put forward a new bill to update the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, which Boxer said would be more effective at protecting public health than separate legislation introduced this week by Sens. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and David Vitter (R-La.).

Wind energy could supply the nation with 35 percent of its electric generation by 2050 if the industry sees decreased technology costs, consistent policy and high fossil fuel prices, according to a new report from the Energy Department.

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