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A new report from the Chesapeake Bay Commission lays out the benefits and challenges of keeping farm animals out of streams in order to cut sediment and pollution runoff to the Chesapeake Bay.

The Interior Department would be allowed to approve natural gas pipelines through national parks without Congress' approval under a bill introduced today by three Republican senators.

The algae-based ethanol producer Algenol Inc. has hired K Street help to lobby on environment, energy and tax issues.

Two prominent transportation lobbies are joining forces to run three days of radio ads aimed at ramping up pressure on congressional leaders to agree on a long-term fix for road and transit funding.

This week, voters in Canada's province of Alberta threw out the ruling conservatives in a move that could tighten oversight of oil sands development.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, appearing on "The Daily Show" last night, talked Iranian nuclear negotiations and clean energy technology with host Jon Stewart.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has identified the elephants in the room when it comes to wasteful government spending.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) today filed cloture on trade promotion authority legislation that is fiercely opposed by most Democrats and green groups.

As the Senate battle over the Obama administration's controversial water rule heats up, environmental groups today launched ad campaigns targeting two Democratic senators whose support for the rule is seen as wavering.

More than a third of the Senate is now co-sponsoring a bipartisan bill to change how the federal government regulates toxic chemicals, making it likely that the issue will be debated on the Senate floor this year, lawmakers said today.

Future desalination plants in California must follow new rules governing how they extract water from the ocean and how they discard leftover salt, following state action yesterday.

The anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd has asked the Supreme Court to weigh a federal appeals court decision that characterized the activists' campaign on the open seas against whale-killing Japanese researchers as piracy.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's new offensive against U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan targets the draft rule for encouraging states to enter regional agreements to curb emissions of greenhouse gases.

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski introduced 17 bills she is considering including in a broad energy package as several other members from both sides of the aisle floated their own ideas for inclusion.

Is a bipartisan compromise on the horizon for Congress' energy bill? On today's The Cutting Edge, E&E Daily reporter Nick Juliano discusses moves in the House and Senate that could demonstrate a path to bipartisanship. He also talks about the most significant bills floated in both chambers.

New helicopters, including two donated by American philanthropist Howard Buffett, and sniffer dogs led to a spike in the number of poachers arrested in South Africa's flagship wildlife park last month, according to park service officials.

Licensed medical marijuana growers will now be free to farm their product on any land zoned as agricultural in British Columbia.

Environmentalists are sounding the alarm about a new plan being considered to open nearly all of the Belize coast to offshore oil drilling.

Delaware lawmakers are circulating a revamped version of legislation to implement a clean water fee, a plan that has the support of Gov. Jack Markell (D).

A bill introduced in the Michigan Legislature is meant to protect national security and energy security but could end up keeping pipeline information from the public, opponents say.

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