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A new report by the Federal Transit Authority found numerous safety flaws at Washington, D.C., Metro's central train control center.

The California Labor Commission ruled this month that Uber drivers are employees, not independent contractors.

The Office of Personnel Management's efforts to rectify a major cybersecurity breach could have put federal employees at further risk, according to the Department of Defense.

In what could be a prelude to a period of gridlock, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board was forced to adjourn a public business meeting after about 15 minutes this morning because board members could not vote on proposed administrative changes because they lacked a quorum.

A Texas oil company wants to search for oil deposits in Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve, the National Park Service said yesterday.

More than 60 environmental, tribal and faith groups are asking the Obama administration to give an Enbridge Inc. pipeline expansion proposal the same enhanced scrutiny as TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL project.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today rejected a retired Navy pilot's bid to fight wind development off the coast of Rhode Island.

New Delhi was the top city for Google searches related to climate change, a new visualization of Google search data shows.

Claim centers for the 2010 BP PLC oil spill settlement will close tomorrow, according to the Louisiana attorney running the settlement program.

Environmental groups today filed a complaint in West Virginia federal court accusing the owner of several mine sites of polluting regulated waterways.

Conservation groups released a report yesterday calling for a halt to bison culling just as the National Park Service closed the public comment period for updating the management plan for Yellowstone National Park's bison herd.

Authorities yesterday announced that a coordinated international sting last month led to more than 300 arrests and 600 seizures of illegal wildlife products ranging from ivory to whale ribs.

Yosemite National Park officials announced yesterday a new company has the option to take over the single most lucrative contract in the national park system.

Grand Canyon National Park officials blamed mostly unprepared hikers for making 2014 the year with the most rescues since 2001.

Taxpayers across the West lose out on as much as $730 million each year due to the low oil and natural gas royalty rates energy developers pay to drill on federal lands, according to a nonpartisan government watchdog group that is urging the Obama administration to update royalties for the first time in decades.

The National Park Service this week finalized a plan to scale back protective buffers around beach-nesting birds and turtles in North Carolina, drawing cautious praise from fishermen and criticism from environmentalists.

Senators on both sides of the aisle today used a hearing on the renewable fuel standard to question the legality of U.S. EPA's recent proposal to set multiyear targets for the standard, or RFS.

The Fish and Wildlife Service is planning to crush more than a ton of confiscated ivory tomorrow in New York City's Time Square as part of the Obama administration's push to stop the poaching of African elephants for their highly sought-after tusks.

A negotiated agreement between industry and energy efficiency advocates that promises the largest energy savings from a single appliance regulation may be a model for the future Department of Energy rulemaking.

Almost the moment the Vatican released Pope Francis' much-anticipated encyclical this morning calling for urgent action and sacrifice to deal with climate change, the conversation in Washington, D.C., pivoted to how it would play out politically.

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