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How dependent are solar producers on federal tax credits and state renewable energy policies? During today's OnPoint, Yann Brandt, regional head of the Americas at Conergy, discusses his company's growth projections amid industry volatility and regulatory uncertainty. He also talks about the international markets that are showing the greatest potential for expansion of solar.

Japanese regulators today approved the use of a massive refrigeration system that would create an underground ice wall at the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in an attempt to stop leaking radioactive water from entering the Pacific Ocean.

A Costa Rican court has sentenced four men to prison for 74 to 90 years each for murdering Jairo Mora Sandoval, a 26-year-old Costa Rican environmentalist, and for raping four female volunteers in May 2013.

Cody Lee Miller captivated the nation's attention last week after perching in a giant sequoia tree in downtown Seattle for more than 24 hours, hurling pine cones and tossing branches like spears at people and cars below.

San Antonio's chapter of the Sierra Club has filed an ethics complaint against the city's mayor over allegations that she accepted campaign contributions from a group involved in negotiations over a controversial water pipeline.

The chances that Iowa lawmakers will come to a consensus over financing water quality projects this session are not looking good.

A pesticide manufacturer will pay a $10 million fine for illegally spraying a banned pesticide in the U.S. Virgin Islands, including at a resort where a family became ill on vacation last year.

U.S. EPA's proposed updates to a program meant to boost safety at high-risk chemical facilities drew criticism from all sides during a public hearing in Washington, D.C., yesterday.

Nevada leaders have dropped their long-standing opposition to a former mine's designation as a Superfund site.

Marathon Oil Corp. and Detroit city officials may have come a step closer to an agreement yesterday that would ensure the company would not increase the release of a key air pollutant as it expands its refinery in the city.

State officials at Flint, Mich.'s municipal water plant told local managers not to bother with corrosion control, according to the plant's laboratory supervisor at the time.

The Air Force has opened an office to facilitate the development of renewable energy.

U.S. EPA's inspector general is pushing the agency to better measure and share the results of its scientific research grants.

Abengoa SA, the renewable energy company that operates around the world, this week filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States.

Nearly a trillion dollars will be spent on new coal-fired power plants worldwide despite coal electricity generation declining in 2015, according to an analysis by environmental groups.

James Lee, the former CEO of Gulf Oil Corp., died last week at a retirement home in Mount Pleasant, S.C. He was 94.

The Pacific Northwest's only nuclear power plant was shut down this week because of issues with cooling equipment.

Entergy Corp. will replace missing and degraded liner bolts at its Indian Point nuclear plant north of New York City, moves that will likely add several weeks to a scheduled refueling and maintenance outage for the plant's Unit 2 reactor.

Hundreds of pounds of nuclear material from Japan is arriving at a South Carolina storage facility run by the Department of Energy ahead of the White House's fourth and final Nuclear Security Summit.

The former chairman of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that sexual harassment allegations against him are the result of a trap by his former employee.

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