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The Agriculture Department yesterday announced a $70 million loan guarantee for a Georgia facility to produce renewable heating oil from forest and mill residues.

Illegal marijuana operations near drought-stricken San Diego are sucking down enough water to sustain 440 families for a year, according to the local Drug Enforcement Administration office.

Groundwater levels are declining across the world, beneath cornfields in Kansas, rice paddies in India, asparagus farms in Peru and orange groves in Mexico.

A warming Pacific Ocean will mean more sick, underweight and dead sea lion and fur seal pups along the California coast this year, researchers said yesterday.

Scientists from the United States, Japan and China are working to design technology that could measure greenhouse gas emissions by satellite.

Weary negotiators this week turned to a traditional South African negotiating technique in an attempt to reach a final climate deal among the 200 nations participating in the talks wrapping up this weekend in Paris.

President Obama has tapped Andrew Mayock to serve as a deputy director for the Office of Management and Budget.

The environmental group NextGen Climate is working to reach younger voters in any way it can, including sponsoring articles on the satirical news website The Onion.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton aided a seafloor mining firm at the behest of her son-in-law while secretary of State, newly released emails show.

Natural Resources Committee spokeswoman Julia Slingsby is leaving the panel after less than a year to work for House Speaker Paul Ryan.

California Republicans today blamed Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) for a breakdown in talks over including drought relief legislation in the omnibus spending measure under development, adding that the Golden State will be unable to take advantage of a particularly wet winter from El Niño conditions as a result.

New Mexico officials are pushing ahead with plans for diverting the Gila River, but project promoters and critics alike suggest federal funding could dry out long before construction begins.

With the pressure on Congress to pass a year-end spending bill, the House this afternoon cleared a spending measure to keep the government from shutting down at the end of the day.

LE BOURGET, France -- Brazil has joined a new coalition of countries calling for an ambitious climate deal, parting ways with other rapidly developing economies that have long been its allies in global talks.

LE BOURGET, France -- The climate talks preparing to conclude in a suburb of Paris will probably produce a deal. There are still contentious issues to be addressed, but the delegates and environmental groups roaming the halls of the cavernous meeting complex tend to be pretty hopeful that a deal will be in place sometime in the next 24 hours.

Wisconsin lawmakers are moving to end the state's ban on building nuclear reactors, five years after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) was blocked from doing so.

A 1,300-page draft proposal for a water pipeline in Utah's Lake Powell offers a lengthy analysis of the project, but some argue the document raises more questions than it answers.

Following last year's Ebola epidemic, a new health initiative will study the intersection of environmental and public health in a warming and changing world.

Millennials may be more interested in working for the federal government than previously thought, according to a new study.

Christmas will come early for federal employees this year.

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