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Speaking from the Chatsworth office of the Southern California Gas Co., a few miles from the site of a 16-week methane leak, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz underscored concerns yesterday about aging energy infrastructure.

U.S. EPA is proposing to designate a dozen areas in eight states as failing to meet the primary ambient air quality standard for sulfur dioxide, a step that could require those states to develop plans and meet deadlines for achieving compliance.

A new reality television show developed by the Energy Department aims to promote corporate energy efficiency by "swapping" two companies' energy teams to find potential improvements.

Teryn Norris, who served in several high-level positions at the Energy Department, is taking a new position as director of energy technology at PIRA Energy Group, a New York-based energy market analysis firm.

Karl Brooks, who oversees U.S. EPA's human resources, contracts and grants, is leaving the agency.

U.S. EPA's internal watchdog has shed more light on misconduct at the agency that has involved watching porn, drug use and even charging the agency thousands of dollars for phone bills.

No matter what happens to the Clean Power Plan after the Supreme Court last week paused its implementation, the United States will sign later this year the climate change mitigation agreement reached in Paris in December, the country's top climate envoy said yesterday.

It's an old rule in farming that as the price of a crop rises, people plant more. But at what point do farmers chop down trees to plant corn?

A North Carolina Superior Court judge ruled that Duke Energy's $7 million coal-ash settlement with state regulators does not resolve the court cases before him.

International organizations are helping authorities in Palau track and stop illegal fishing operations.

Scientists believe they may have solved the mystery of where Maine's Atlantic puffins spend the winter. The answer? New Jersey and New York.

While wildlife watchers were thrilled when a mountain goat appeared at Dinosaur National Monument nearly two years ago, service officials now are looking to kill it before the animal -- and others from artificially established herds -- damage resources and disturb bighorn sheep populations.

Hunters caught 102 snakes at Florida's second Python Challenge, setting a record.

Actress Vanessa Hudgens posted a photo on her Instagram account of a heart carved into red rock, and now authorities in Arizona are investigating whether the rock belongs to the protected Coconino National Forest, which manages land around Sedona.

Personal sensors, miniature satellite boxes and big data are a few of the technological advances that could transform and challenge the National Park Service in its second century, the agency's first science adviser told an overflowing crowd at last week's American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting.

The FBI has discovered "significant amounts" of human feces in an outdoor trench as well as spoiled food, firearms and explosives at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge as it assesses the scene of the 40-day occupation, federal attorneys disclosed yesterday in a court filing.

West Virginia mine operators and many of their miners are split over who they think should be the Mountain State's next leader.

Last week's firing of the California Coastal Commission's executive director spawned legislation yesterday to force agency lobbyists to register with the state and disclose information.

Ford Motor Co. is ending its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council, according to an organization that has pressed companies to leave the conservative group over its climate change stance.

Commissioner William Ostendorff will not seek another term on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, creating a second vacancy on the five-person body.

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