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New Jersey voters are apparently willing to give indicted Sen. Bob Menendez (D) the benefit of the doubt as a new poll finds a majority of Garden State voters do not think the senator should resign his office unless he is found guilty of bribery and public corruption charges.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris (D) has raised $2.5 million in her bid to win the state's open U.S. Senate seat, her campaign said yesterday.

Sen. John McCain said yesterday that he will run for re-election in 2016, bucking the recent trend of veteran senators who have chosen to retire at the end of next year.

Montana Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke is urging Washington Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee not to let a large proposed coal export terminal become the next Keystone XL oil pipeline.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul announced his 2016 presidential bid today, becoming the second candidate to wade into the Republican primary field.

President Obama today will try to drum up public concern about the link between climate change and health problems, hosting a roundtable with senior staff and announcing a set of administration actions boosting research on the issue.

Former U.S. EPA Administrator William Reilly said yesterday that a political campaign waged by the Senate's top Republican is without precedent.

When you work in a top political job at one of the most highly politicized agencies in government, everything you do is under a microscope.

The Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to allow continued oil and gas drilling in areas of the southern Great Plains inhabited by the lesser prairie chicken, despite state wildlife officials' failure to obtain required permanent conservation areas for the threatened species.

The revolving door between the Obama administration and the Center for American Progress has been spinning furiously.

Employees at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission have deep ties to the industry they regulate, according to agency documents detailing their job negotiations and stock holdings. Ethics records throughout 2014 show agency staff seeking employment with grid operators, law firms and utilities that the agency has jurisdiction over and often meets with as it sets new orders and rules. In addition, FERC employees have held stock in or remain part of pension plans from companies that can be affected by the agency's work. Greenwire obtained the 88 ethics documents under the Freedom of Information Act.

Indian authorities killed 20 loggers who were found illegally cutting endangered red sandalwood trees.

Energy officials are considering alternatives for tritium-laced water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant that could include storing it underground or evaporating it.

A company building a controversial telescope on land sacred to some native Hawaiians has agreed to halt construction for one week.

Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) joined other lawmakers in voting to approve a budget resolution that would establish a procedure to sell, exchange or transfer federal land to states, even as Idaho state lawmakers have moved away from the idea.

A Texas legislative committee took up a proposal yesterday to put new requirements in place for fertilizer storage sites, in a bid to prevent an explosion like one at the West Fertilizer Co. in 2013.

Alaska's Senate approved a bill yesterday that sets an official state Arctic policy calling for more resource extraction.

Researchers have found that one of the main dispersants used in the response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill can be detrimental to human health.

The Agriculture Department expects farmers to plant more acres of corn than early trade estimates had predicted -- good news for manufacturers of pesticides, fertilizers and other inputs, according to agriculture economists.

About 250,000 businesses and households in California can use as much water as they want without paying extra because they have no water meters, according to state data.

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