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The Obama administration and Montana regulators are moving forward with permitting one of the West's most controversial mining projects, which could become one of the world's largest copper and silver mines.

National conservation groups are challenging a potential "loophole" in a sweeping federal plan designed to guide commercial-scale wind, solar and geothermal power projects across the Southern California desert that could open nearly 1 million acres of public land to new development.

Presidential candidates once had to kiss the ring of ethanol in order to carry Iowa, but some say the corn-based fuel's sway is fading in the early-voting state.

The Florida man who pleaded guilty to landing a gyrocopter outside the U.S. Capitol this year says he wants to run for Congress.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton yesterday promised during an interview with a South Carolina radio station to a hard look at the need for offshore drilling along the coast of South Carolina if elected.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called Donald Trump a "bright and talented person" at his annual news conference today, telling reporters he "certainly welcomes" the Republican presidential front-runner's calls to improve U.S.-Russia relations.

An effort to put a measure on California's ballot that would increase tobacco taxes, funded in part by billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer, was approved yesterday to start collecting signatures.

Marvin Fertel is stepping down as the Nuclear Energy Institute's president and CEO at the end of next year, concluding his run as the lobbying group's leader and the face of the nuclear industry.

The Obama administration today announced it is intensifying its efforts to punish criminals who break environmental and worker safety laws.

New York Democrats introduced legislation today that would make the Stonewall Inn the nation's first national park dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history.

The nation's troubled chemical safety agency will see its funding stay flat in the new fiscal year, as a policy provision may delay a plan by regulators to tighten chemical storage rules.

The massive $1.15 trillion omnibus spending bill would bar the federal government from footing the bill for official portraits.

U.S. EPA's internal watchdog is getting a lump of budgetary coal from Congress this Christmas.

Top Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee today demanded that U.S. EPA account for its social media and online promotion of its carbon rule for existing power plants.

A Utah county commissioner tomorrow morning will learn whether his decision to organize an illegal all-terrain vehicle protest through Recapture Canyon will land him behind bars.

A Wisconsin county health director this week defied her local board and refused to shut down a wind farm over health concerns in a case that has drawn national attention.

U.S. EPA critics were dismayed as federal judges this week kept intact a major Obama administration rule to slash mercury emissions from power plants, but others saw a silver lining.

A majority of House Republicans joined dozens of Democrats today to pass a two-year package of tax cuts, finishing half of the colossal year-end fiscal deal that next heads to the Senate.

How will a lift of the ban on crude oil exports change the energy landscape in the United States? On today's The Cutting Edge, E&E Daily reporter Manuel Quiñones discusses congressional action this week on the omnibus and tax cut package.

Four Chinese men yesterday were each sentenced to 20 years in jail for smuggling rhinoceros horns into Tanzania, according to court documents.

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