Zack Colman

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Since April 2014, beekeepers lost 42.1 percent of their colonies, the second highest loss rate in nine years, and then managed to recover a bit, according to an annual survey conducted by a bee partnership that includes the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (AP Photo/Andy Duback, File)

Energy and Environment

White House lays out plan to save the honeybees

Zack Colman · May 19, 2015 3:31 pm

Energy and Environment

Farmers, Congress take aim at EPA water rule

Zack Colman · May 19, 2015 9:00 am

A 2-year-old Florida panther, listed as "endangered" by the National Park Service, is released into the wild by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) on April 3, 2013 in West Palm Beach, Florida. The panther and its sister had been raised at the White Oak Conservation Center since they were 5 months old. The FWC rescued the two panthers as kittens in September 2011 in northern Collier County after their mother was found dead. The panther is healthy and has grown to a size that should prepare him for life in the wild.Â (Getty Image)

Energy and Environment

Interior would give states more control over endangered species

Zack Colman · May 18, 2015 6:57 pm

A truck carrying 250 tons of coal hauls the fuel to the surface of the Spring Creek mine near Decker, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

Energy and Environment

Royalties: The new attack against coal

Zack Colman · May 18, 2015 9:00 am

Environmental protesters against the tar sands industry attempt to blockade the annual Canada Europe Energy Summit with a performance-style demonstration outside Canada House by Trafalgar Square in London, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Energy and Environment

Canada sets climate target, gets rebuke from greens

Zack Colman · May 15, 2015 9:34 pm

Maryland utility regulators approved a merger between Exelon and Pepco on Friday, a decision that clears a major hurdle for the $6.8 billion proposal. (Getty)

Maryland approves Exelon’s $6.8 billion purchase of Pepco

Zack Colman · May 15, 2015 8:27 pm

This July 1, 2013 file photo smoke rises from the Colstrip Steam Electric Station, a coal burning power plant in in Colstrip, Mont. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Odd couple asks EPA for carbon tax

Zack Colman · May 14, 2015 9:00 am

Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 25, 2015, to discuss crude oil rail transport legislation. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Energy and Environment

Senate Dem bill to take shot at federal coal-mining program

Zack Colman · May 13, 2015 6:19 pm

"What Sen. Murkowski along with Sen. Cantwell really have laid out is an impressive and potentially bipartisan path on energy," Joshua Freed, vice president of clean energy with nonpartisan think tank Third Way, told theÂ Washington Examiner. (Getty Image)

Energy and Environment

Energy mega-bill gains momentum

Zack Colman · May 12, 2015 9:00 am

The Interior Department conditionally approved Royal Dutch Shell's plans to drill in waters off Alaska's coast Monday.Â (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Energy and Environment

Obama administration OKs Shell offshore Arctic drilling

Zack Colman · May 11, 2015 6:41 pm

WaPo columnist: Fiorina answered 200 questions to Hillary’s 7

WaPo columnist: Fiorina answered 200 questions to Hillary’s 7

Zack Colman · May 10, 2015 10:19 pm

Republican U.S. presidential hopeful and former Florida governor Jeb Bush participates in a discussion with the editor of the National Review, Rich Lowry, during the National Review Institute 2015 Ideas Summit April 30, 2015 in Washington. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Jeb Bush: I would have invaded Iraq and Hillary Clinton would have, too

Zack Colman · May 10, 2015 8:19 pm