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A Los-Angeles based coalition will lead a new $140 million "smart" manufacturing institute backed by the White House as President Obama launches a week of "creativity and invention," the administration announced this morning.

President Obama emphasized the importance of taking action on climate change this weekend, linking it to the protection of national parks during remarks at Yosemite National Park.

The Brazilian megacity of São Paulo has an electricity supply that is 100 percent generated by hydropower; its vehicle biofuels policy is singularly aggressive.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell sent an all-staff email last week pledging to fight sexual harrassment and other misconduct after a recent wave of investigations exposed wrongdoing at the department.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review an important case surrounding whether some nominees for federal agency jobs have been improperly "acting" in those roles.

IMPERIAL COUNTY, Calif. -- A dust bowl is coming, and people here are scared. Aide Munguia-Fulton, a nurse who runs a program for children with asthma, has been seeing referrals for assistance soar as the Salton Sea has receded due to water management schemes and a persistent drought. She knows asthma rates will get worse as more of the salty, toxic lake bed is exposed. "We have to be prepared," she said. "And I know we are not."

A city in southeastern China proceeded with its infamous annual dog-meat-eating festival today despite heavy criticism from animal rights activists.

More than a quarter of China's generated electricity may come from wind power by 2030, a report published in Nature Energy found.

The Chinese government has successfully sued a county environmental agency for inadequately punishing a sewage firm.

Japan has geothermal reserves with the power equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors. But the centuries-old tradition of public baths stands in the way of tapping the energy resource.

U.S. EPA has a plan to beef up the Horseshoe Bend Water Treatment Plant in Montana by 2023, but some want to see action taken sooner.

Delegates from the eight Great Lakes states will convene today to vote on a proposal to provide Lake Michigan water to the city of Waukesha, Wis.

DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC last month notified Wyoming officials that it would suspend plans for a coal gasification plant near Medicine Bow.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will soon unveil tougher financial requirements for offshore oil producers to prevent taxpayers from paying to clean up abandoned rigs, agency officials said yesterday.

Bayer AG yesterday apologized to outraged farmers after the company's crop science division in a tweet suggested that reduced meat demand could benefit the environment.

U.S. EPA is taking steps to help local and state planners prepare cities around the country for climate change.

The nonprofit Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) announced plans today to team up with the U.S. Conference of Mayors and businesses to urge carbon reductions from U.S. power plants.

The Justice Department is opposing a reorganization plan by Alpha Natural Resources Inc. to sell valuable assets to its creditors, arguing that it imperils mine cleanups.

Trader Joe's will spend an estimated $2 million over the next three years to reduce emissions of a potent greenhouse gas from 453 stores under a settlement announced today by the Obama administration.

A new report says poisonous lionfish may be spreading through the Mediterranean Sea.

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