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A key trade group is lauding an amendment inserted in the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization that would crack down on drones near chemical plants.

Energy advisory firm Boundary Stone Partners has hired two more former Obama administration officials to open its Los Angeles branch.

The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers group has hired a prominent Republican-leaning lobbying firm, disclosure records show.

A marine reserve off the East Coast will soon bear the name of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg, in a nod to the New Jersey Democrat's work to fund ocean research.

Three Democrats with key roles in energy policymaking yesterday called on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to prop up the only existing federal law that encourages the use of renewable energy in electricity production.

House Democrats today urged President Obama to use "all available executive actions" to mitigate what they said would be the negative environmental impacts of lifting the 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports.

A House panel is threatening to subpoena the Department of Energy for more information on the "propriety" of its decisionmaking over a home efficiency program.

House Republicans are moving ahead with plans to write a fiscal 2017 budget by the end of this month even as the party lacks consensus over where it should set spending levels for the coming year.

A Clean Air Act section that some legal scholars say provides the most efficient way of regulating greenhouse gas emissions is getting a new look after the Paris climate agreement and the legal uncertainty surrounding the Clean Power Plan.

President Obama today established three new national monuments spanning 1.8 million acres of California's Mojave Desert, the largest monument designation of his presidency.

The FBI's top official in Oregon yesterday had a clear message to anyone who tries to copy Ammon Bundy's illegal occupation of a national wildlife refuge: You will be punished.

Reversing a previous decision to stop using vellum, the British government will keep the centuries-old practice of printing official laws on parchment made from goat or calf skin.

South Africa's government is accused of pressuring Glencore PLC to sell a coal mine to a local company linked to the country's political leadership.

Iran's first oil shipment to Europe in five years has been exported, the country's official news agency reported yesterday.

An animal advocacy group launched a protest against a winter carnival event in New Hampshire called "Greased Pig on Ice" but withdrew the campaign after learning no pigs would be involved -- just a man on skates in a pig costume with money tied to its tail.

Illinois regulators are asking the state's attorney general to step in to require a coal company to clean up its leaking mine.

As state regulators have said little about Portland, Ore.'s cancer-causing air pollution, Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and Rep. Earl Blumenauer, all Democrats, called on U.S. EPA to take action, saying the situation is a public health emergency.

After the controversial firing of the California Coastal Commission's executive director, state Assembly members plan to introduce legislation to improve transparency among lobbyists who work with the commission.

Hawaii Gov. David Ige (D) has declared a state of emergency to fight illnesses spread by mosquitoes.

Michigan officials blocked local health workers from investigating a Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Flint, Mich., that may have been the result of the city's water system, a county official said.

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