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Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners has acquired the rights to a roughly 260-square-mile offshore wind project off of Massachusetts.

Vice President Joe Biden said yesterday that a proposed $11 billion gas pipeline from Russia to Germany that would be jointly operated by Russia's state-owned energy company and several private firms would be a "bad deal" for Europe.

Charging companies more to mine coal on federal lands can actually help rather than hinder downtrodden coal country, said a report from Headwaters Economics.

Renewable power generation reached new highs in every month of the first half of 2016 in comparison with all previous years, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Scientists this week warned of a "climate change bomb" due to carbon escaping from melting permafrost at monumental levels in the near future.

The trial for a woman who gave water to pigs on a large trailer heading to a nearby slaughterhouse began this week in an Ontario court.

A group of fishermen, oil workers, businesses and property owners this week requested to move forward with a lawsuit seeking damages from the Santa Barbara oil spill last year.

An important matriarch of an orca pod on the U.S.-Canada border has disappeared and may be dead, researchers said.

Thousands of dead mussels washed up on Long Island shores this week.

Australian scientists have named a long-extinct kitten-sized species after famed broadcaster David Attenborough.

The Army Corps of Engineers is bracing for another storm around the Gulf of Mexico this weekend, mobilizing resources to plug gaps between canals and pump stations around Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans.

Oil and gas development near national parks is driving away visitors to some of the nation's most iconic sites, according to a new report by a watchdog group that warns the development threatens the economic benefits of parks to local communities.

Fresh from a trip to Greenland, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) is urging Congress to invest in infrastructure to counter rising seas.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) today called on U.S. EPA to include asbestos as one of the first substances it reviews under the nation's recently reformed chemical safety law.

Public outcry over the contentious Dakota Access crude oil pipeline is complicating efforts by North Dakota Sens. Heidi Heitkamp (D) and John Hoeven (R) to diversify movements of crude in a state plagued by train derailments, truck rollovers, spills and explosions.