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The Fish and Wildlife Service is considering whether to allow a California wind farm to incidentally kill up to three federally protected golden eagles over the next five years.

Hillary Clinton accused Peabody Energy Corp. yesterday of attempting to "shirk its responsibilities" to pay health care benefits to retired miners.

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has not yet upheld a July pledge to make itself carbon-neutral, according to a CNN report.

A former aide to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has joined Third Way, a centrist think tank.

Industry is raising concerns about a U.S. EPA bid to provide for exemptions from federal court decisions on air rules.

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) expressed strong concerns today about the Interior Department's new proposal to protect waterways from coal mining.

Citing what they call an "out of control" regulatory system, senators from both sides of the aisle have joined forces to create a new Senate Regulations Caucus aimed at revamping the rulemaking process.

U.S. EPA's Superfund program doesn't start work at as many as one-third of nonfederal sites it knows need to be cleaned up because it doesn't have enough money, the Government Accountability Office said this week.

Building and reopening miles of roads in the Santa Fe National Forest for a massive restoration project designed to make the forest more resilient to wildfires and insects would cause more harm than good, according to a formal protest filed by an environmental group that helped the Forest Service develop the project.

Senate opponents of U.S. EPA's power sector rules have joined their House counterparts in using the Congressional Review Act to target them.

Lawmakers on both sides of the Capitol are digesting the two-year budget agreement unveiled late last night, with the House expected to move first on the bill tomorrow.

Local officials say historic flooding earlier this month could provide an impetus to seek more state funding for roads and bridges in South Carolina.

More than 10,000 gallons of liquid sewage spilled yesterday from an overflowing pipe connecting a St. Louis treatment plant to the Bridgeton Landfill, where a long-running subterranean fire has released benzene-contaminated liquids.

A Seattle zoo put a rhino-foot ash tray, ivory tusks and other products of the "extinction economy" on display yesterday in support of Washington state's push to ban trade in endangered species.

The Humane Society International's Australian branch is taking Japan back to the International Court of Justice after Japanese officials declared the country would ignore a previous court ruling banning whaling in the Antarctic.

Australia could lease nuclear fuel rods to other countries and store their waste at home, even though it might not make sense for the nation to use the technology for its own power generation, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said.

Germany's transport minister is in Washington, D.C., this week to meet with U.S. regulators over the Volkswagen AG emissions scandal.

If a large group of people is in the path of a self-driving car, should the car swerve off the road and kill its driver to save the others?

More than 100,000 federal employees can expect a raise next year under new rules that will boost their income in higher-cost areas.

The federal government is in a recruiting "crisis" that hamstrings agency efforts to attract high-quality managers, according to a survey released today by the Senior Executives Association.

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