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Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway trumpets his support for the state's coal industry in a new television spot as he competes in a three-way race to succeed term-limited Gov. Steve Beshear (D).

Seventy mayors from 24 states yesterday called on President Obama to set a more stringent ozone standard as U.S. EPA nears a deadline to choose a final new limit.

The Obama administration is expanding use of an online "dashboard" intended to prod agencies to streamline the permitting of big-ticket infrastructure endeavors, including those in transportation, renewable energy and stormwater management, White House officials said today.

The Senate yesterday approved a bipartisan bill aimed at making federal agencies' legal settlements more transparent.

A House Republican and Democrat have introduced legislation that would require federal agencies to disclose more about their conference spending.

GALVESTON, Texas -- More than 300 dead lionfish sit in the freezer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's regional office, putting a smile on the face of agency scientist Michelle Johnston.

Pope Francis famously said, "A good Catholic meddles in politics."

Senate Democrats today laid out a comprehensive package of clean energy provisions that will serve as their caucus' starting point in negotiations with Republicans on a range of issues in the coming months.

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- The Interior Department's long-awaited decision today not to list the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act was hailed as a conservation triumph by many officials and environmentalists but drew immediate threats of lawsuits and a congressional probe.

As Pope Francis spreads his warning about the world's "throwaway culture" and its effect on the poor, a neighborhood just blocks from where he will speak in Washington, D.C., is struggling with the effects of trash.

Weed resistance to the world's most popular herbicide is increasing rapidly in Kansas, a scientist said this week, and the House Agriculture Committee is set to hold a briefing on the issue later this year.

Americans produced double the amount of trash they did in 2012, but despite plenty of landfill space, the uptick means a corresponding spike in methane emissions.

Air pollution could be a risk factor for suicide, according to a study released earlier this year.

Exposure to indoor insecticides is associated with a greater risk for some childhood cancers, according to a new study.

Data released last month showed the Chicago River has bacteria levels that can reach tens of thousands of times the legal limit.

Los Angeles' water district could become one of the largest jurisdictions to embrace "toilet to tap" technology if the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California moves ahead with a proposal to build one of the world's largest plants to recycle sewage into drinking water.

Volkswagen AG's admission that it used so-called defeat devices to dupe U.S. EPA emissions tests is the latest in a history of auto industry schemes to avoid regulatory burdens.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has tapped Karla Thieman to be his new chief of staff, replacing Brian Baenig, who left the department last month.

U.S. EPA is preparing a contingency plan for a possible government shutdown.

The White House has reviewed a small number of the Department of Energy's responses to public records requests, according to a new inspector general report, which found few problems with DOE's Freedom of Information Act process.

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