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Republican Rep. Dan Benishek announced today he will end his re-election bid and opt to retire at the end of his term, a surprise decision that creates a competitive open-seat race in Michigan's 1st District.

With the end of the fiscal year approaching, governors are registering a bipartisan complaint over funding cuts to wind research programs at the Energy Department that were included in a Senate appropriations bill.

North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven wants to attach language that would lift a 40-year-old ban on exporting domestic crude to a chemicals bill that has broad support in the upper chamber.

The environmental activists at NextGen Climate Action unveiled a new tactic today in their efforts to push would-be Republican presidential nominees to back renewable energy policies: urging the GOP field to be more like the late President Reagan.

A former chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee is now lobbying for the U.S. Park Police union.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell this morning pledged not to interfere with the decision coming from one of her agencies in the next 15 days on whether to list the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act.

EL MONTE, Calif. -- It's been a long day for Lydia Rodriguez.

The Navy has agreed to limit its training activities off Hawaii and Southern California, keeping sonar and explosives testing out of important habitat for marine mammals.

Environmentalists issued a report today aimed at countering industry claims about economic risks posed by U.S. EPA's plan to tighten the national air pollution standard for ozone.

Two more federal judges have recused themselves in the sentencing of a Utah county commissioner convicted for leading an illegal all-terrain vehicle ride through Recapture Canyon. The recusals of four judges in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah complicate the high-profile case of San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman.

A video last week captured a breaching humpback whale nearly crushing the kayak of two nearby whale watchers off the coast of Northern California.

Hunting is a passion for many Idahoans but is also a booming part of the state's economy.

DENVER -- Perhaps it was the lure of a one-of-a-kind bicycle -- an electric-blue-and-yellow model dotted with Anadarko Petroleum Corp. decals -- but all officials at Denver's B-cycle know is a would-be thief has wandered off with their ride.

Toxic chemicals are leaching from abandoned Colorado mines into ecosystems, but cleaning them up is vexing officials.

Debt-plagued Puerto Rico has reached a deal with U.S. EPA and the Department of Justice to stanch the flow of untreated sewage and other pollutants into the island's waterways but will not pay civil fines associated with the infractions.

States should take advantage of major upgrades to roads, bridges and transit systems to better prepare for the effects of climate change, a senior Federal Highway Administration official said this morning.

A Facebook photo shared nearly 65,000 times and a subsequent tip led the U.S. Forest Service to a Washington state man who allowed his kids to etch their names into the railing at Oregon's Tumalo Falls.

More employees are needed to protect marine habitats and species, according to a new strategic plan from the Fish and Wildlife Service that lays out the agency's vision for conserving the nation's aquatic resources.

Vermont now has the most solar jobs per capita of any U.S. state, fueled by state and federal tax breaks, but state officials are warning the boom may not continue if Congress does not extend the federal investment tax credit.

Nearly 80 Nevadans piled into a meeting last night about a Nuclear Regulatory Commission draft report on the health risks of a controversial and stalled plan for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, and officials expressed their continued opposition to it.

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