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A former Center for American Progress staffer has become the latest veteran of the liberal think tank to join the White House's environmental shop.

Pro-coal lawmakers have tapped West Virginia Republican Rep. David McKinley to lead the Congressional Coal Caucus.

With a contentious Endangered Species Act oversight hearing looming, the House Natural Resources Committee chairman is pushing the Obama administration for more information on why it apparently didn't evaluate how protected species like manatees could be impacted by its proposed power plant carbon emission limits.

The White House slammed a Homeland Security spending bill today, saying it puts climate change resilience at risk.

The House Agriculture Committee today passed by voice vote a controversial bill that would pre-empt state laws to label foods containing genetically modified organisms and, at the same time, create an Agriculture Department program to certify products as "non-GMO".

A key trade group representing cellulosic ethanol plans to change its name and expand its focus as debates over the future of the nation's biofuel policy take center stage in Washington, D.C.

Lawmakers at a contentious House hearing on pipeline safety today directed their anger at the White House after a top Democrat called for the Office of Management and Budget to explain a delay in critical safety upgrades.

After paying staffers to leave jobs deemed obsolete or in need of restructuring, U.S. EPA hired new employees for the same posts, according to a new watchdog report.

Supporters of ending federal restrictions on U.S. crude exports are stepping up pressure to reverse the ban in the wake of today's historic agreement that paves the way for Iran to resume unfettered shipments of its own oil in exchange for curbs on its nuclear ambitions.

No official tally exists, but anywhere from dozens to hundreds of dildos have appeared on Portland, Ore., power lines in recent days.

A South Florida sea wall art installation will serve a dual purpose as a water filtration project.

The last snow from Boston's record-breaking winter has finally melted away.

Texas can't give Tesla a legal loophole to sell cars directly to consumers, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said on Bloomberg Radio yesterday.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) said state Senate Republicans have held the state back from pursuing large-scale plans to reduce carbon emissions.

Seventy years after the first atomic bomb was detonated, the environmental legacy of the nuclear age remains around Los Alamos, N.M.

Monsanto Co. has commissioned an independent review of a finding that pegged one of its most popular herbicides as a "probable" carcinogen, the company said yesterday.

U.S. EPA today sent the White House a final rule that would add to the list of discarded materials that companies can use as fuel in combustion processes.

Air pollution contributed to the deaths of about 2,000 people in Minnesota's Twin Cities metropolitan area in 2008, a state study released this week found.

A Midwestern utility has agreed to install pollution controls worth $620 million and pay a civil penalty to resolve allegations that it violated the Clean Air Act.

Damaged batteries have halted a Swiss team's effort to circumnavigate the globe in a solar plane.

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