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Murkowski bill opens Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, calls for at least two major lease sales
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Lisa Murkowksi, R-Alaska, released legislation Wednesday that would open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling for the first time...
Affordable Care Act sign-ups spike at open enrollment’s start
In the first few days of open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act, the numbers of participants has surged compared with the past, according to federal officials who spoke on...
Administration report finds “no convincing alternative explanation” for climate change
The Trump administration released a dire scientific report Friday calling human activity the dominant driver of global warming, a conclusion at odds with White House decisions to withdraw from a...
Fifth year’s ACA enrollment season opening with daunting obstacles
Unlike in each of the past four years, federal health officials have issued no forecast of the number of people who will be insured through the law during 2018.
Trump says he will shrink Bears Ears National Monument, sacred tribal site in Utah
President Donald Trump informed Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Friday that he will shrink Bears Ears National Monument, a 1.35-million-acre protected area in southeast Utah that is prized by many tribal...
Another last-ditch effort to tackle Obamacare stalls within hours of its release
A pair of leading Republican and Democratic senators reached an agreement Tuesday to fund key federal health-care subsidies that President Donald Trump ended last week - and the president expressed...
Interior looks at behind-the-scenes land swap to allow road through wilderness refuge
The Interior Department is preparing to set asidea decades-old ban on development in federally protected wilderness areas by pursuing a controversial proposal to build a nearly 12-mile road through a...
Trump administration narrows Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate, women’s access to free birth control
The Trump administration issued a rule Friday that sharply limits the Affordable Care Act's contraception coverage mandate, a move that could mean many American women would no longer have access...
Price apologizes for private-charter flights, pledges to pay nearly $52,000 to cover his share of the trips
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said Thursday that he would reimburse the government for the costs of his flights on charter planes in recent months, after coming under...
EPA’s Pruitt took charter, military flights that cost taxpayers more than $58,000
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has taken at least four noncommercial and military flights since mid-February, costing taxpayers more than $58,000 to fly him to various parts of the...