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The financial fortunes of the biodiesel industry remain linked to a federal biodiesel tax credit that Congress renews every year or two -- but it's the anticipation about those renewals that really fuels industry gains.

Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer today launched ads in California aimed at oil industry influence during a fight to extend the state's climate laws.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said Saturday that steel jobs could make a comeback in Pennsylvania, but coal was a different matter.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Friday declined to denounce Ammon Bundy for seizing the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge earlier this year or his father Cliven Bundy's armed standoff with the Bureau of Land Management two years earlier.

Jay Faison, the Republican entrepreneur and donor pushing to make inroads within his party on clean energy, is facing questions within energy policy circles over his past ties and positions.

New York regulators today signed off on Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan for tackling climate change by rapidly expanding the state's renewable footprint and throwing a lifeline to ailing nuclear reactors.

In 2009, as House Democrats cobbled together a whopping climate change bill, Mike Pence was spearheading strategy sessions with Republican lawmakers, energy industry lobbyists and staffers, clamoring to obliterate the bill.

The Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies and a related foundation had been stripped of their nonprofit statuses for repeatedly failing to file annual tax forms when the Fish and Wildlife Service in October 2013 endorsed their blueprint for protecting the lesser prairie chicken, according to IRS records reviewed by Greenwire. Those avoidable tax problems -- and the service's failure to notice them -- are raising fresh concerns for some conservationists about the soundness of the cooperative effort to recover the prairie chicken.

Venezuela's minister for ecosocialism and water hit back yesterday against claims that animals in Caricuao Zoo in Caracas were dying of starvation.

Hundreds of British luminaries, including actors, writers, artists and scientists, have signed a letter demanding that BP PLC rescind its new sponsorship of major British cultural institutions. The letter, organized by advocacy group Art Not Oil, protests BP's oil drilling and claims that the corporation's monetary gifts are intended to deflect criticism in the face of worsening climate change.

Washington state yesterday announced it is sending new water standards to U.S. EPA, but one provision is sure to continue debate.

U.S. EPA has told the state of Hawaii to warn beachgoers about potential fecal contamination at two beaches on the island of Kauai.

A report by the California Legislature has found that a bill that would ban behind-the-scenes communications by California Coastal Commission members might cost the state more than $150,000 a year.

A state lawmaker suggested yesterday that the recent deadly flood in Ellicott City, Md., was caused by climate change.

Because of the Zika virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued its first travel warning for the continental United States.

The Zika virus is thriving in Puerto Rico due, in part, to nearly 20 unregulated landfills, according to environmentalists and lawmakers who are urging U.S. EPA to step in.

Pennsylvania environmental regulators have repeatedly pressed the Philadelphia water department to reform its lead testing methods following allegations that the city intentionally obscured lead levels in drinking water.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has ruled that part of the Susquehanna River is "impaired." It's the first such designation for a major waterway in the state.

The German state of Bavaria plans to sue Volkswagen AG over the company's diesel emissions scandal, the state's finance ministry announced today.

An outside investigation of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. found that systemic failure caused the automaker's fuel mileage scandal, citing interdepartment infighting and a corporate culture where workers had little resistance against management demands.

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