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The West is struggling with ongoing drought, but the southeastern United States could be affected too, a NASA scientist has warned.

U.S. EPA took an early step to speed up operations at its troubled Office of Civil Rights with the publication of a notice of proposed rulemaking yesterday that would eliminate some statutory deadlines.

Wondering if your personal information was stolen in this year's massive breach of federal government data? There is now a website for that.

In his final report to Congress, former Department of Energy Inspector General Gregory Friedman detailed cases of theft and kickbacks and one investigation into child pornography allegations.

A Center for American Progress lawyer who has recently urged the Obama administration to use executive action to up the cost for coal companies to mine on public land is headed to the Department of Energy.

Wyoming-based energy company Cloud Peak Energy Inc. announced yesterday it is updating its rail shipping contract for an undisclosed sum during tough times for coal exports.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) is calling on the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration to regulate the vapor pressure of tanker cars carrying crude, seeking to close what he calls a "dangerous loophole."

Lawyers for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) asked a Dallas-area court to throw out three charges of securities fraud related to the sale of stock from a technology company.

The Obama administration has urged the Supreme Court not to review an appeal from California cities and water districts that claim federal protections for a small threatened fish will imperil their water supply.

In August, a Kansas City couple quit their jobs, sold their furniture and set out to visit all 59 U.S. national parks in a year.

The cost of cleaning up 100,000 abandoned mine sites on federal public lands could reach $21 billion, the Center for Western Priorities said in a report today.

Rising water temperatures could mean more algal-induced seafood poisoning in the Gulf of Mexico and the southeast Atlantic coast, according to a new study from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

With the Arctic melting faster than other parts of the planet, Alaska will lose permafrost that now covers more than a third of its landmass by 2100, according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey.

A bipartisan group of Western governors yesterday asked Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to allow the states to take the lead on establishing formal measures to mitigate man-made damage to greater sage grouse habitat.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee's top Democrat, New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone, will reauthorize a 2000 law that mandates U.S. EPA water monitoring at beaches.

A trio of Democratic senators is proposing higher royalties for mining coal on federal land, a prohibition on exports and a moratorium on leases.

Negotiating an international climate deal is a bit like "seeing an action movie," according to a former U.S. climate negotiator.

Whatever climate agreement emerges from the international negotiations in Paris may stem from the most casual of talks between nations.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack presented a sweeping report on food security and climate change today, one of the most comprehensive studies of the issue to date.

An American climate skeptic group that has made an annual tradition of launching publicity stunts at U.N. climate summits will hold a red carpet premiere at a historic Paris cinema near the Sorbonne next week for its film disputing the science of man-made warming.

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