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U.S. EPA has a new deputy in its congressional affairs shop.

Environmentalists' complaint that U.S. EPA's regulatory scheme allows for harmfully high lead emissions in Puerto Rico came about 35 years too late, a panel of federal judges found today.

The U.S. energy storage market surged 243 percent in 2015 -- its best year of all time, according to research this week from the Energy Storage Association and GTM Research.

The Justice Department has asked the FBI to determine whether a probe into Exxon Mobil Corp.'s climate change disclosures is warranted.

Before Cliven Bundy, there were the Klumps. The tenacious Arizona ranching family thumbed their noses at the Bureau of Land Management starting in the 1980s. But BLM did not round up their cattle in 2002, hoping to avoid an armed confrontation. After a year in jail, Wally Klump agreed to cull his herd -- a case some experts say could offer the government a model for how to handle Bundy and his cows.

As market uncertainty continues, how are independent producers adjusting to new financial and regulatory dynamics? During today's OnPoint, Dan Naatz, senior vice president of government relations and political affairs at the Independent Petroleum Association of America, explains why he believes more oversight is needed from Congress of the Obama administration's oil and gas regulations, many of which, he says, overlap with state policies.

After Norwegian police officers found a goldfish in a jam jar at the Nordlandshall indoor soccer stadium, they decided to bring the lone fish back to the station, according to news agency NTB.

China announced this weekend it will keep its energy consumption within 5 billion metric tons of coal equivalent by 2020, marking the first time the country has set such a target.

Kentucky's new governor campaigned against excessive environmental regulations, but a radioactive dumping scandal is putting pressure on his administration to take action.

Officials in Virginia have seized equipment from a coal mine owned by billionaire and West Virginia gubernatorial candidate Jim Justice after they said his company failed to pay property taxes.

The San Clemente Dam was a landmark in Monterey County, Calif., for almost a century before it was removed last year.

As much as 80 percent of the 880,000 pounds of metal pollutants that Gold King mine released into the Animas River last summer remains upstream, according to recent estimates.

U.S. EPA will remove more than a century's worth of environmental toxins from New Jersey's Passaic River under final terms of a cleanup announced last week.

About half of Americans are very confident their drinking water is safe, according to a new poll.

A Florida man is suing a nuclear plant operator on the grounds that a lack of proper signage caused him to be sucked into a cooling water intake pipe.

Consumer advocates and environmentalists today called on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to set up an office that they say would allow the public to have a voice in oversight of the utility industry, reigniting a decades-old debate.

U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly said that his year on the International Space Station has made him more of an environmentalist.

Award-winning environmental photographer Gary Braasch died today while snorkeling with a friend at the Australian Museum's Lizard Island Research Station at the northern end of the Great Barrier Reef.

A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed Greenpeace's appeal of a lower-court ruling barring its protests of Royal Dutch Shell PLC's now-abandoned oil exploration efforts off the coast of Alaska.

Seven Flint, Mich., families filed a class-action lawsuit today seeking damages because of lead exposure through contaminated drinking water.

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