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House Democrats highlighted climate change's impact on coastal communities during a forum today in Maryland's capital.

Any long-term reauthorization of public transportation programs should include a hefty funding boost, address a backlog of maintenance and repair needs, and account for growing ridership, five Senate Democrats said in a statement released this morning.

North Dakota Republican Sen. John Hoeven and West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin introduced legislation yesterday to amend U.S. EPA's first national disposal rules for coal combustion waste.

Nuclear advocates yesterday called on Congress to support President Obama's trade deal with China and reject calls from two Senate Republicans to scrap the effort.

States are reacting with caution and concern to the Interior Department's new proposed rule to protect land and waterways from the effects of coal mining.

When Dean Williams began producing native and conservation seeds commercially six years ago, he used 11 acres to produce six varieties of grasses to attract quail, deer and other wildlife to areas chopped up by pipeline projects and highways.

U.S. EPA is on a hiring spree, trying to add as many as 800 new staffers in less than 100 days. With a workforce shrunk by buyouts, retirements and budget cuts to the smallest level since the George H.W. Bush administration, EPA is racing to fill empty slots as quickly as possible. But the hiring push faces obstacles.

With U.S. EPA scheduled to release its final Clean Power Plan this summer, stakeholders are making last-ditch efforts to speak to the Obama administration about the plan and its potential impacts. During today's OnPoint, John Quigley, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, discusses his recent White House meeting on the power plan. He also explains the steps Pennsylvania is taking to prepare a compliance mechanism and talks about the opportunities that exist with a multistate plan.

Hundreds of pages of records obtained by Greenwire under the Freedom of Information Act detail who U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy was talking to in the runup to the Clean Power Plan announcement last year. The documents provide a window into EPA's internal process for drafting the rule last year and could provide clues on who the agency is consulting now before it finalizes the proposal in the coming weeks.

Russian scientists are facing difficulties with the imposition of Western sanctions and government restrictions, which many researchers say are affecting their work.

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker (I) has lifted his moratorium on work on a controversial dam, though the water project's fate is still far from certain.

A bridge collapse on a Southern California interstate yesterday injured one driver and has made travel difficult for thousands.

Even an unusually wet spring in the Rocky Mountains couldn't dampen tensions among federal officials, residents and farmers along the drought-stricken Colorado River.

U.S. EPA's internal watchdog is investigating whether the agency is properly handling national security information.

The University of Michigan will open a 32-acre simulated city on its north campus this week to test how self-driving cars will move about in the future while avoiding accidents.

Tesla Motors Inc. has announced three new versions of its Model S electric car.

SunEdison Inc. will purchase Vivint Solar Inc. for about $2.2 billion, a move that is expected to boost SunEdison's installations next year by about 50 percent.

A fight is brewing between the Montana Department of Environmental Quality and U.S. EPA over an abandoned mine that is now leaking contamination into groundwater in Butte.

Big Brother is willing to get his hands dirty in the name of recycling.

A legal dispute between California regulators and San Joaquin Valley farmers is the latest skirmish as the state's drought continues to deplete water reserves.

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