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Duke Energy Corp. continues to ship coal ash across the Piedmont to a former clay mine as Concrete Supply Co., Charlotte's largest concrete company, is in talks to buy ash from Asia.

The Anchorage-based Alaska Maritime Prevention and Response Network is developing a method to prevent large ships from drifting ashore when something goes awry.

Ohio regulators will change how state agencies and cities manage lead in drinking water, including by telling customers sooner if the neurotoxin is found.

Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk had a message as he unveiled the highly anticipated Model 3 at a launch event streamed live online last night: Your automotive dream is now affordable.

Pipe bomb-like devices that could start fires were found hanging from power lines in northern Massachusetts this week.

The nation's capital set a record this year for the highest number of energy-efficient commercial buildings ever counted in a U.S. city, according to new data from U.S. EPA.

The new ice-strengthened polar research vessel that the Internet wants to name "Boaty McBoatface" in an online naming contest will aid in understanding glacier melts in Antarctica and contribute to global understanding of climate change (Greenwire, March 22).

A third woman has accused the former chairman of the United Nations' climate change arm of sexual harassment.

The oil and gas industry's trade group yesterday predicted that few exploration and production companies would join a new U.S. EPA voluntary program to reduce methane emissions.

The former operator of a platinum mine responsible for releasing pollutants into a river in southwest Alaska where salmon spawn was sentenced yesterday to a year in prison and, after that, a year of supervised release.

A coalition of environmental groups, consumer advocates and fishing associations sued the Food and Drug Administration this week over its decision to approve genetically engineered salmon for commercial sales and consumption.

Apple Inc., the employer of former U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, is among the technology companies backing the agency's Clean Power Plan in the epic lawsuit that will determine the rule's fate.

People were responsible for the death or grave injury of 682 marine animals over a five-year time frame that ended in 2014, and more than two-thirds of those animals were Steller sea lions, a federal report says.

In an online talk with park supporters, SeaWorld CEO Joel Manby said Wednesday that he was not willing to risk the closure of SeaWorld by keeping its killer whale breeding program.

Farm pesticides and disease take much of the blame for the decline in bees and butterflies. But for one type of bee that's suffering, the culprit may be farming itself.

A state-led effort to offset the impacts of development on the lesser prairie chicken continues to struggle with purchasing permanent conservation areas for the bird, according to an annual report released yesterday by the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies.

Lawmakers must avoid language in pending chemicals legislation similar to Clean Air Act provisions that were subject to a key ruling by the Supreme Court in 2015, law professors urged in a letter.

The National Institutes of Health should change its public database of scientific journals to make it easier to identify conflicts of interest in research, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said.

Duke Energy Corp. has bolstered its K Street roster, hiring one of the influence industry's most prominent firms.

Two senators who represent states with sizable populations of nuclear workers are urging Labor Secretary Thomas Perez to delay a new rule they say could make it more difficult for Energy Department employees to claim medical benefits.

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