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A spokeswoman for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is leaving Capitol Hill.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee's deputy communications director is leaving Capitol Hill at the end of this week to take a job with Exxon Mobil Corp.

Supporters and opponents of TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada are airing new competing ads as permitting actions are pending in Nebraska, in South Dakota and at the federal level.

Daniel Elliott's nomination to rejoin the Surface Transportation Board received unanimous approval this morning from the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.

The leaders of the Senate energy appropriations and authorization committees along with a bipartisan group of senators today unveiled legislation that strongly supports the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy in marked contrast to a bill set to be considered by the House this afternoon.

The Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed removing from the list of threatened species a type of black bear that is famous for being spared by avid hunter and former President Teddy Roosevelt.

An Interior Department official today sharply criticized a bicameral effort that would scrap Congress' ability to oversee the construction of natural gas pipelines through national parks and some of the nation's most iconic landscapes.

U.S. EPA and Washington, D.C.'s water utility have formally agreed to shift their approach to a $2.6 billion project aimed at keeping sewage out of the city's rivers and creeks, cutting back on concrete infrastructure and boosting methods that mimic nature.

Ethanol backers have launched a campaign to steer attention away from the corn-based fuel's potential impact on food prices and toward air quality and public health.

This week, General Electric launched its digital wind farm innovation. How could this new tool help make the wind energy industry more profitable and efficient? During today's OnPoint, Ganesh Bell, chief digital officer and general manager of software and analytics at GE, explains how this "wind energy ecosystem" could help transform the industry and double global wind energy generation by 2020.

Thousands of Romanians have taken to the streets to protest sales of forested areas embroiled in allegations of high-level government corruption.

Greenpeace India employees have been working without wages this month, determined to keep the organization going since the government froze the group's bank accounts.

The mayor of a Japanese town notorious for dolphin hunting has no plans to call off a controversial hunt despite Japanese zoos and aquariums announcing they would not longer buy any of their dolphins.

One of Arizona's top utility regulators is under fire this week following revelations that he was in regular communication with both the largest utility in the state and a dark money group during his 2014 re-election campaign.

Darryl Ivy sat inside his pickup truck last year with the windows up and the door shut, taking video on his phone as a helicopter sprayed toxic pesticides on nearby workers.

Holders of senior water rights in California expect to receive their first state-ordered cuts in decades this week, as policymakers consider additional options in the face of the continued drought.

The Obama administration will spend nearly $50 million on water conservation in drought-plagued California and 11 other states.

Amtrak is pulling the plug on a costly modernization of its ticket reservations system with a large chunk of the work left undone and higher-than-expected costs, the railroad's inspector general said in a report released this week that cites "weak program management" as one stumbling block.

The CEO of embattled flooring retailer Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc. unexpectedly stepped down today in the wake of a federal investigation that it violated formaldehyde standards.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has declined to investigate alleged violations at some of the country's largest organic egg and dairy farms.

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