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Natural Resources Committee Republicans blasted Interior Secretary Sally Jewell today for her agency's investigation into U.S. EPA's spill of polluted water from an abandoned Colorado mine spill last summer.

Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) is floating a proposal that would impose fees on crude exports to protect small refineries and ensure oil deliveries after natural disasters, as lawmakers continue to wrestle with a potential deal to end the export ban.

Instead of taking up a House-passed bill to stem the illicit trade in endangered species and products made from them, members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are planning to introduce their own anti-trafficking package.

The morass of litigation engulfing the Obama administration's signature climate change rule will be the top environmental law issue to watch next year, according to new rankings from Vermont Law School.

The Interior Department's watchdog has retracted its claim that a former aide to then-Interior Secretary Ken Salazar broke the terms of his presidential ethics pledge.

California officials are facing increasing pressure to answer a simple but politically charged question.

LE BOURGET, France -- The fate of the planet may hang on what happens here in the next two days, Secretary of State John Kerry said this morning.

With the United Nations' climate summit expected to come to a close this weekend, will negotiators successfully achieve a final deal? On today's The Cutting Edge, ClimateWire deputy editor Lisa Friedman, discusses the latest developments in the negotiations, direct from the talks in Le Bourget, France.

International banks are funding dozens of Balkans hydropower projects that will be built in national or E.U. parks or heritage sites, according to a new report.

Japan's top steelmaker detailed a new furnace prototype this week as one of the world's most efficient steel sectors aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent by 2050.

Beijing will ramp up air quality monitoring efforts after severe pollution blanketed the city, prompting authorities to issue the city's first smog "red alert" earlier this week.

A passenger train disembarked from a Boston transit station without a driver yesterday. The unit built momentum and passed by four stations without stopping, an incident investigators believe was caused by a manipulated safety system.

A San Francisco Bay Area public health scientist and toxicologist who pushed for stronger regulations on chemicals in the workplace has died.

More than 107,000 Americans have been diagnosed as having cancers and other diseases stemming from radiation exposure related to nuclear weapons development, according to an investigation by McClatchy.

U.S. EPA has approved new regulations at the center of a protracted legal battle over natural gas drilling wastewater crossing from Wyoming into Montana.

School districts and transportation companies will split some $7 million from U.S. EPA to replace or refurbish about 375 older diesel-powered school buses, the agency announced today.

While working as an associate at a Washington, D.C., law firm in 1983, Joel Gross recalls having been struck by the recent pollution cleanup program launched under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act.

Faraday Future, a California-based electric car company founded by a Chinese entrepreneur, said it intends to invest $1 billion to construct a factory in North Las Vegas.

Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co. said today that they will combine to form the nation's largest chemicals and plastics company before splitting into three companies.

Environmental groups opposed to the construction of several natural gas pipelines in Virginia and West Virginia expressed dismay over the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's rejection last month of requests to prepare a study of potential cumulative environmental impact statements (EIS) for the projects.

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