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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in a split vote last night rejected PJM Interconnection's bid to salvage its ability to use demand-response programs, casting the proposal as "premature" given the issue may be taken up by the Supreme Court.

Florida recently made headlines after Republican Gov. Rick Scott was accused of banning state employees from mentioning the words "climate change," but four South Florida counties facing some of the most imminent threats posed by climate change are quietly getting their communities ready for rising seas.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest yesterday defended the administration's choice to formally commit the United States to significant greenhouse gas reductions before major developing emitters like China and India did so.

U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier has ruled that a jury can hear Alabama's oil spill damage claims against BP PLC, in a defeat for the oil company.

The Bureau of Land Management has been ordered by a federal judge to re-evaluate its controversial decision to allow target shooting in Arizona's Sonoran Desert National Monument.

A Brazilian-born accessories designer who set the trend of using exotic animal skins in handbags has died at the age of 70.

Industries driving deforestation in Brazil and Indonesia, home to more than half of the world's rainforest losses in the last 25 years, receive subsidies 126 times greater than what the two countries receive from the international community for conservation, according to a new report from a British think tank.

Cuba remains off-limits to U.S. mining and fossil fuel companies, but thawing relations have rejuvenated interest in the island's natural resources.

Many restaurants claiming to serve Maryland crabcakes use imported seafood rather than the Chesapeake Bay blue crab, according to a new report from Oceana.

A federal judge in Anchorage, Alaska, yesterday placed a two-week hold on old-growth logging and new road building in the state's Tongass National Forest, offering temporary relief for environmental groups that are appealing the project before a federal circuit court.

The railroad industry and trucking firms are in a high-stakes debate over what requirements an expected highway funding bill will place on their industries, and they're enlisting local officials to take their case to Congress.

Presidential hopeful Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has found a way to champion Iowa ethanol while keeping with his libertarian values.

A former U.S. EPA attorney and longtime industry representative in energy legal cases will take the reins of American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, the refiners' trade group announced today.

Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) has raised more than $1 million so far this year in his bid to replace retiring Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D).

Michael Boots, who led the Obama administration's environmental office until earlier this month, has a new job at a nonprofit policy shop.

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) announced that voters in the state's 18th District will head to the polls in late August to select a successor to disgraced ex-Rep. Aaron Schock (R), who resigned from office yesterday.

More than 70 House members signed a letter yesterday calling on the secretary of Agriculture and the secretary of Health and Human Services to disregard some of the advice from a scientific panel when reformulating the nation's dietary guidelines.

Concerned that the Army Corps of Engineers and state and local stakeholders have been cut out of the process for developing U.S. EPA's controversial water rule, the chairmen of three House committees are requesting a trove of documents from the environmental agency.

A House Oversight panel yesterday launched a probe to determine whether Daniel Poneman, a former top Energy Department official, violated any laws when jumping from the agency to a controversial uranium enrichment company that benefited from DOE support.

Two senior officials at the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration opted to retire after investigations found evidence of wrongdoing, Transportation Department Inspector General Calvin Scovel said in a letter to Congress released yesterday.

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