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A landmark water-sharing agreement on the California-Oregon border is in danger of crumbling after Congress failed to ratify it this month.

When the National Nuclear Security Administration four years ago rolled out plans to transform its information technology infrastructure, officials estimated the project would wrap in late 2012 and save the agency $73 million each year.

Federal transportation officials issued a Christmas Eve warning on hoverboards, the two-wheel motorized electronic scooters that have become hot gifts this season.

Major mining companies are looking to innovation and the development of clean energy technologies in their effort to survive the commodities downturn.

SolarCity Corp. said yesterday it will stop Nevada-based operations after state energy regulators altered the way solar customers are charged for utility services.

A District of Columbia appeals panel ruled yesterday that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission did not properly review a 2013 winter reliability program from New England's grid operator.

Several Department of Energy efficiency standards moved forward this week, including one on ceiling fans that has been challenged by members of Congress.

Supporters of an expired law mandating the use of Pennsylvania anthracite coal to heat U.S. military facilities in Germany are not giving up their fight.

A federal judge yesterday said he had "no choice" but to dismiss more than half the pipeline safety charges against Pacific Gas and Electric Co. as duplicative, including some connected to the deadly San Bruno natural gas explosion in California in 2010.

A California duck that was held by federal officials after escaping from an assisted living facility returned home yesterday.

Scientists are monitoring for potentially bigger shock waves after more than 30 earthquakes occurred along a major fault line, shaking the Reno, Nev., area for the past two days.

As medical experimentation on chimpanzees begins to slow, conservationists are working to care for the animals left over and sometimes abandoned.

A storm system killed at least 10 people as it moved across the United States yesterday, and others remained missing.

Declining oil prices are putting pressure on several of the United States' biggest adversaries and helping boost the economies of some of its allies.

A conservative group is launching an attack ad campaign blasting Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King for endorsing presidential candidate Ted Cruz, an opponent of the renewable fuel standard.

Four years ago, Amtrak launched a $450 million upgrade to part of its New Jersey line, later heralding the effort as the first step in a plan "to introduce high-speed rail in the Western Hemisphere."

U.S. EPA employees don't just write regulations -- sometimes, they sing about them.

BLACKFEET RESERVATION, Mont. -- The sapphire waters of Lower St. Mary Lake sit in the shadow of Glacier National Park's Rocky Mountain front, a world away from Washington, D.C.

Environmental lawyers are lining up to have prominent positions in what's expected to be an epic court battle over the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan.

When the Obama administration released new rules last year for defining what waterways and wetlands get Clean Water Act protection, U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers turned to the old reliable, "Waters of the United States," which quickly got turned into an acronym, WOTUS. But the hot-button rule's many opponents used the rule's name as a weapon, saying it revealed the administration's true motive was regulating all waters of the United States. So EPA is asking the media to forget WOTUS and call the regulation the Clean Water Rule.

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