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Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) apologized yesterday after he interrupted a Senate committee hearing with his cellphone's "Let It Go" ringtone.

Allentown, Pa., Mayor Ed Pawlowski (D) announced today that he's running for the Senate in Pennsylvania, setting up a primary fight with former Rep. Joe Sestak (D).

Former Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold (D) claims a double-digit lead in a potential rematch with Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, according to a new Marquette University Law School survey.

A Koch Industries lobbyist urged the Senate this week to repeal the renewable fuel standard rather than vote for reform measures.

This weekend, the Earth Day Network is helping put on one of the biggest ceremonies for the 45th anniversary of Earth Day -- featuring a roster of celebrities and world leaders -- but the events are just a culmination of the group's year-round efforts that often go largely unnoticed.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell pushed back yesterday against Republican concerns about the Obama administration's efforts to protect land in Alaska and with a soon-to-expire land conservation fund.

Opponents of the Senate's Trade Promotion Authority bill are working at full throttle to discredit the legislation with the media and the public.

A federal appeals court has cleared the way for a logging company to cut centuries-old trees from the Tongass National Forest, marking a major win for Alaska's timber industry and a significant defeat for environmentalists.

The Interior Department kicked off a major rulemaking today that would update fees oil and gas companies pay to drill on public lands.

Five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, it's still unclear how much BP PLC must pay for spewing millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

On Nov. 20, 2014, Jerrel Hancock was cleaning an oil separator on a production platform about a dozen miles off the Louisiana coast when the device exploded, killing the 24-year-old, injuring another worker and leaving two others with ringing in their ears.

What's certain: In the Gulf of Mexico, Kemp's ridley sea turtles are laying fewer nests, dolphins are dying at an unprecedented rate and some deep-sea coral colonies remain damaged five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Five years ago, the massive, 87-day Deepwater Horizon oil spill dealt a major blow to the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem and the economies that rely on it, smothering wildlife, shutting down commercial fisheries and emptying beaches from Texas to Florida. Now, in a twist of fate, the disaster is offering an unprecedented opportunity to repair problems that had the ecosystem in a downward spiral even before the spill. But where there’s big money, there are big political battles.

How could constitutional scholar and Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe's involvement in last week's U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit hearing on the Clean Power Plan affect the future of the rule? During today's OnPoint, Richard Lazarus and Jody Freeman, professors at Harvard Law, explain why they believe the government came out ahead during last week's federal court hearing. They also rebut Tribe's arguments against the constitutionality of the Power Plan.

Federal judges wasted no time last week showing their skepticism about the first court challenge to U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan that seeks to block the draft rule before it's finalized.

One of Russia's leading environmentalists has moved to Estonia, worried she could be separated from her children if she stayed in her homeland.

For about a year and a half, Hawaii's largest utility has barred thousands of customers from adding solar panels to lower their electric bills because of fears the energy they generate would overwhelm the electric grid.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) has declared a drought emergency in nearly half the state as the region grapples with a record-low snowpack.

Led by the United States and China, countries generated record levels of electronic waste in 2014, less than a sixth of which was recycled, according to a United Nations study.

Phillips 66 said it discovered diesel fuel leaking near the Mississippi River from one of its pipelines in Illinois on Friday morning.

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