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Rooftop solar installations are on the rise nationwide, but homeowners in California are finding that leasing a roof for solar can get complicated when it comes time to sell the house.

Administrative requirements and bureaucracy are "choking" the Energy Department's national laboratories, according to a draft report from the secretary of Energy's advisory team.

An Oregon man earlier this month was cited for unlawful possession of game parts and had bear paws confiscated by authorities at the airport in Eugene, Ore.

Plea bargain talks are continuing in the case of Kelly Steen, a Montana truck driver charged with illegally transporting natural gas condensate connected to North Dakota's Bakken oil fields, a recently filed court order indicates.

The Supreme Court today asked the Obama administration to weigh in on whether federal law precludes Maryland incentives for a new power plant.

The Supreme Court today declined to review a closely watched case concerning whether an Army Corps determination that a wetland qualifies for Clean Water Act protections may be challenged in court.

The U.S. Geological Survey debuted a new database of thousands of photos and videos of the seafloor along America's coastlines last week as a tool for managers and scientists to gauge the impacts of phenomenon like sea-level rise.

Wolves are thriving in eastern Washington state, and wildlife officials expect the animals to continue expanding their range westward.

The collapse of a bluff at a popular Northern California hiking trail Saturday left one person dead and another with life-threatening injuries.

A flight packed with 30 of North America's largest land mammal landed in a rural Alaskan village yesterday as wood bison are slated for reintroduction more than a century after disappearing from the region.

The National Marine Fisheries Service will not list the Baltic Sea harbor porpoise under the Endangered Species Act, after finding that the population does not qualify for federal protection.

The National Park Service announced today that its ledger of deferred maintenance projects hit $11.49 billion in fiscal 2014, an increase of $190 million from the previous year.

Despite President Obama's executive order barring the employment of lobbyists in the White House, the president has made an exception to the ban and hired four lobbyists during his two terms.

With leaders in Washington, D.C., keenly interested in finding ways of bringing private money to the country's gaping needs for water and sewer infrastructure, the private water industry is launching a campaign today aimed at smoothing the conversation at the local level.

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz today announced that he's running for president, becoming the first major candidate to officially jump into the 2016 election.

Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Fla.) said today he will run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio.

Two West Virginia lawmakers brought their opposition to U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan to their home state today, decrying the proposal as part of President Obama's "war on coal."

Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman James Inhofe expressed "alarm" today that the White House team guiding President Obama's Climate Action Plan has hired a lawyer who previously worked on those issues for an environmental group.

Most U.S. EPA employees are women.

One simulation shows the steady ebb of earth that residents of tiny Steelhead Haven near Oso, Wash., had seen before. The other rendered by the U.S. Geological Survey shows the devastation that occurred March 22, 2014.

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