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BALTIMORE -- House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady yesterday downplayed the prospects for a quick extension of tax breaks for renewable energy sources that did not make it into a broader tax package last year.

Wildlife enthusiasts fed up with the ongoing occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Oregon by a group of armed militiamen have launched their own protest -- and are checking up on the wildlife sanctuary they love.

The armed militiamen occupying a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon have access to about 4,000 archaeological artifacts from hundreds of prehistoric sites on the refuge, including burial grounds, ancient villages and petroglyphs -- and maps showing where more can be found.

A man who served as a bodyguard to Ammon Bundy during the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and to Cliven Bundy during his earlier standoff with the federal government was arrested this week by police near Phoenix.

U.S. EPA has at its disposal a "powerful, and as yet unused tool" that would allow it to craft a nationwide greenhouse gas program in the wake of the international Paris climate change agreement, according to a group of environmental law professors and attorneys.

The Hammond family, whose legal troubles inspired armed militants to seize the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, owns one of just two remaining private tracts that the Fish and Wildlife Service would like to buy for the century-old refuge in southeast Oregon's Harney County, according to a Greenwire analysis of federal and county property records.

As the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge rolls into its third week, many are asking whether justice will be served when the siege ends.

The Obama administration today froze the leasing of federally owned coal to mining companies until it could study whether the program is a good deal for taxpayers and protective enough of the environment.

Misreporting of carbon emissions by Chinese electricity firms is hindering the country's attempts to curb pollution despite government policies aimed at creating cleaner power.

The United Kingdom yesterday declared 23 new marine conservation zones, but six years after British leaders signed the Marine and Coastal Access Act, some criticized the government's slow progress in protecting sea life from fishing and dredging.

The United States and other countries lifted sanctions on Iran on Saturday after certifying that it had complied with an international agreement to curb its nuclear program, paving the way for the oil-rich country to rejoin the international economy.

An explosion at a Texas chemical plant on Saturday killed one worker and injured three others.

Minorities and the poor are far more likely to live near the highest-risk chemical plants, a chemical safety watchdog group said in a new report.

The warmest places in California, those with population growth and those adding water-saving technologies could get a break on how much water they must conserve under a proposed revision to the state's conservation rule.

Donning her trademark Boston Red Sox cap and U.S. EPA sweatshirt, the agency's Administrator Gina McCarthy rolled up her sleeves this morning to help serve hot meals to hundreds of Washington, D.C.'s homeless residents.

California utility regulators have asked Southern California Gas Co. to provide evidence that its efforts to burn off natural gas at the site is safe and that the ground around its leaking well is stable.

Pet owners living in the area near the massive natural gas leak in Southern California are linking animals' nosebleeds and other unexplained illnesses to the ongoing leak, but veterinary experts have reserved judgment for now.

Nexen Energy on Saturday closed its Long Lake oil sands facility in Canada after an explosion killed one employee and left another seriously injured.

Bankrupt Alpha Natural Resources Inc. should not be allowed to pay executives nearly $12 million in bonuses and not disclose their names, the Department of Justice's bankruptcy oversight division said in a new filing.

A magnitude-3.0 earthquake struck about 45 miles northwest of Washington, D.C., yesterday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

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