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"Senate support is growing for the Chemical Safety Improvement Act, which creates an effective approach for screening all chemicals for safety and acting on those found to be dangerous," Sen.

Bills to revise current legislation governing the nation's helium reserve managed by the Bureau of Land Management are moving through Congress.

Pipelines run from the offshore docking station to four liquefied natural gas tanks at a facility in Cove Point, Md.

Federal lawmakers held several congressional hearings and meetings this week trying to get a handle on supporting the economic development while protecting the environment.

More than 170 business groups sent a letter to the Senate on Thursday urging lawmakers to oppose new campaign finance reform legislation that they said would curtail First Amendment rights.

A website partially funded by the oil and gas industry could be a "constructive" tool for federal regulators as they consider requiring public disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations, Senate Energy Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said Thursday.

Last fall a group of nine soldiers arrived in Menemsha to compete in the Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby.

The Tea Party wants former Alaska governor Sarah Palin to join their favorites in the Senate, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul .

Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions Committee members approved the nominations of the White House's five picks to run the National Labor Relations Board.

The Senate Energy Committee is holding a series of so-called "forums on natural gas." To the uninitiated, they sure look like typical Congressional hearings.

Visiting Hamilton High School in Hamilton, Ohio, Jan. 8, 2002, President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.

A U.S. Coast Guard panel completed the first day of hearings planned for the agency's inquiry into the grounding of the Shell drillship Kulluk last Dec.

Democrats in the U.S. Senate sent a message to House Republicans Tuesday that the upper chamber won't accept significantly higher cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.

As Memorial Day approaches, several media outlets are ramping up their coverage of veterans and particularly the effects of two recent long-running wars.

For a bill supposedly about "disclosure," Sens. Ron Wyden and Lisa Murkowski gave surprisingly few details about their Follow the Money Act in their POLITICO op-ed, . While they wrote in broad generalities about requiring "full transparency on the part of independent political spenders," they had already articulated that principle in a Washington ... (more)

A divided U.S. Senate confirmed on Wednesday the nomination of William Orrick III , a former top immigration lawyer in President Obama's Justice Department , to the federal court in San Francisco.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management released a plan May 8 identifying 50 abandoned wells in the Alaska Arctic that it believes require clean-up by the agency.

Even in a bitterly divided Capitol, Democrats and Republicans joined together Thursday in a sweeping vote to confirm Ernest Moniz as Energy secretary.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on May 8 approved S.761 by a voice vote.

The Internal Revenue Service , under pressure after admitting it targeted anti-tax Tea Party groups for scrutiny in recent years, also had its eye on at least three Democratic-leaning organizations seeking nonprofit status.