Wyden: FracFocus a 'constructive' tool on drilling
A website partially funded by the oil and gas industry could be a "constructive" tool for federal regulators as they consider requiring public ...
Moniz: LNG exports on hold until data reviewed
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Tuesday he will delay final decisions on about 20 applications to export liquefied natural gas until he reviews ...
Senate confirms physicist Moniz as energy chief
Physicist Ernest Moniz won unanimous Senate confirmation Thursday to be the nation's new energy secretary. Moniz, 68, a professor at the Massachusetts ...
Timber! Forest Service asks states to return cash
The U.S. Forest Service is in the business of preventing fires, not starting them. Yet the agency set off alarms in Congress and state capitols across ...
Internet sales tax bill to hit roadblock in House
A bill to require Internet shoppers to pay sales taxes for online purchases may be cruising through the Senate but it will soon hit a roadblock in the ...
Senate advances bill to tax Internet sales
The Senate moved closer Thursday to passing a bill to tax purchases made over the Internet. But a final vote in the Senate was delayed until senators ...
Bill would force super PACs to reveal their donors
Two senators hope to require political groups to name the donors who spend millions of dollars to influence federal campaigns. Legislation sponsored ...
Obama dines and talks issues with Senate Democrats
President Barack Obama regrouped over dinner Wednesday with a dozen Democratic senators, attempting to press ahead on tenuous elements of his agenda ...
Amid investigation, coal exports at record levels
From the time coal is scooped from the depths of the Spring Creek strip mine in Montana's wide-open Powder River Basin until it travels more than ...
Senate endorses Sally Jewell for interior chief
Sally Jewell, CEO of outdoor retailer Recreational Equipment Inc., won easy Senate confirmation Wednesday to be the nation's next interior secretary.
Liberals balk at Obama's 2nd-term overtures to GOP
Liberal lawmakers from Congress and a coalition of like-minded groups rallied outside the White House on Tuesday, voicing frustration at the ...
Moniz backs natural gas 'revolution'
President Barack Obama's choice to lead the Energy Department pledged to increase use of natural gas Tuesday as a way to combat climate change even ...
Nuclear board warns of Hanford tank explosion risk
Underground tanks that hold a stew of toxic, radioactive waste at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site pose a possible risk of explosion, a ...
Senate panel endorses Jewell for Interior chief
The Senate Energy Committee on Thursday endorsed President Barack Obama's nomination of Sally Jewell to be Interior secretary, moving her nomination ...
Erratic North Korea poses serious threat
An erratic North Korea, with its nuclear weapons and increasingly belligerent tone, poses a serious threat to the United States and East Asia nations, ...
Jewell pledges balanced approach on energy
President Barack Obama's nominee for interior secretary pledged Thursday to take a balanced approach to energy that would expand and diversify ...
Senate panel likely to vote this week on CIA pick
A White House commitment to provide lawmakers with additional information about the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, may have ...
6 leaking tanks are Hanford nuke site's latest woe
Federal and state officials say six underground tanks holding a brew of radioactive and toxic waste are leaking at the country's most contaminated ...
6 tanks at Hanford nuclear site in Wash. leaking
Six underground tanks that hold a brew of radioactive and toxic waste at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, federal and state ...
Coal sales investigated by feds; no violations yet
The U.S. Department of Interior is investigating whether mining companies are skirting royalty rules as they increase exports of coal to Asia, federal ...
Brennan defends drone strikes, even on Americans
CIA Director-designate John Brennan strongly defended anti-terror attacks by unmanned drones Thursday under close questioning at a protest-disrupted ...
Lawmakers to get classified drone info
President Barack Obama has directed the Justice Department to give Congress' intelligence committees access to classified legal advice providing the ...
Congress considers putting limits on drone strikes
Uncomfortable with the Obama administration's use of deadly drones, a growing number in Congress is looking to limit America's authority to kill ...
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