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A top adviser to Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is heading to the private sector.

Automakers were excited to showcase to Senate Commerce Chairman John Thune their innovative means of complying with federal environmental and safety standards during a tour of the Washington Auto Show yesterday.

As South Carolina's February presidential primary elections approach, candidates will have to tread carefully in the state where the possibility of offshore drilling 50 miles off the coastline has pitted residents and policymakers against one another.

A poll released today by a conservative think tank found ethanol and the federal program that supports its production doesn't rank among Iowa voters' biggest concerns.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has decried the use of super PACs to fund political campaigns, but that hasn't stopped groups from spending big money on the senator.

A Michigan state lawmaker and a former member of the Flint City Council says he knows Republican Gov. Rick Snyder's email release this week was incomplete.

Opponents of the Obama's administration Clean Power Plan downplayed a federal court decision yesterday that failed to block the rule while a legal challenge proceeds, saying they still expect to eventually halt the proposal for curbing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

U.S. EPA is taking strong actions in response to the lead contamination crisis in Flint, Mich., starting with the resignation of the top federal environmental official in the region.

U.S. EPA's internal watchdog has begun its own investigation into the ongoing drinking water crisis in Flint, Mich.

A rule unveiled today by the Bureau of Land Management clamping down on the loss of natural gas from roughly 100,000 wells on federal and tribal lands met immediate resistance from congressional Republicans and industry groups.

The Obama administration has chalked up a series of early wins in the behemoth lawsuit challenging its signature climate rule. The latest: scoring a panel of judges that's widely seen as favorable to the government.

Farmers and fumigators in Argentina are battling the country's worst plague of locusts in more than 50 years. And time is running out, officials said yesterday.

The Canadian government plans to mandate new climate tests on proposed pipelines and a liquefied natural gas export terminal -- both of which are currently under regulatory review -- to further identify the impact they will have on the country's carbon footprint, a move that could stall the billion-dollar projects.

Conservationists working to restore the landscapes and watersheds of San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta are relying on thousands of historical documents and resources to guide how the restored area will look.

After a 2013 New York constitutional amendment allowed a private mining company, NYCO Minerals Inc., to perform open-pit mining on public land in the Adirondack Mountains, two state offices now refuse to investigate.

As pushback over recent energy rate hikes continues, utility NV Energy Inc. yesterday proposed allowing customers who already use solar panels or who applied for them before Jan. 1 to keep lower rates for up to 20 years.

Dangerous regulatory gaps in chemical safety remain nearly three years after a massive explosion at a fertilizer storage facility in West, Texas, killed 15 people and injured 260 others, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board said today.

A New York man who spent two years trying to figure out why so many residents in Hoosick Falls, N.Y., were getting sick has spurred action by U.S. EPA.

Residents in Sebring, Ohio, are receiving bottled water and testing kits after state environmental officials found the owner of a small water system failed for months to tell them of unsafe lead levels.

U.S. EPA is giving the oil and gas industry another month and a half to respond to an information request related to toxic air emissions.

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