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A Superior Court judge in Washington, Vt., threw out a lawsuit over the state's interim safety standard for perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA.

A Las Vegas-based mining company is pouring resources into the modern ghost town of Empire, a former mining settlement in northwestern Nevada.

A new study by scientists at the University of California, Irvine, has found that the mussel population in the Gulf of Maine is plummeting.

A tropical storm now developing in the Gulf of Mexico will come the closest to offshore oil and gas platforms of any this year but likely will miss the heart of the oil patch.

A federal review panel Friday tossed the Interior Department's approval of two coal mine expansion proposals.

West Virginia's senators are looking to illustrate their efforts to improve the Mountain State's energy production and infrastructure.

South Dakota Republican Sen. Mike Rounds is holding a field hearing tomorrow in his home state to examine how federal water and wildlife regulations affect property owners.

A House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee today will examine California's high-speed rail project, which has been plagued with delays and cost overruns.

Huma Abedin, a top aide to Hillary Clinton and wife of former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), announced today that she and Weiner are separating.

A spokeswoman for Republican West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is out of a job after a 2012 white supremacist video in which she appears surfaced last week.

The League of Conservation Voters Victory Fund began a weeklong TV ad campaign in Pennsylvania today, accusing Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) of supporting "Big Oil polluters."

If it were a summer movie blockbuster, tomorrow's Arizona's primary election could be called "The Establishment Strikes Back."

DENVER — Colorado election officials today rejected two ballot initiatives aimed at curbing oil and gas development in the Centennial State, ruling sponsors had failed to collect enough signatures to put the proposals before voters in November.

A company that claims to convert agricultural waste into building products, Enviro Board Corp., isn't what it appears to be, federal regulators say.

Bolts and fasteners are failing at an alarming rate on subsea oil and gas equipment in the Gulf of Mexico, and regulators today spotlighted the high stakes involved as they reached out widely for help.

A lawsuit challenging cattle ranching at Point Reyes National Seashore could provide a novel blueprint for a deluge of litigation challenging the management of other national parks.

On Nov. 1, 2011, investigators began looking into an unwanted visitor to U.S. EPA's interconnected system of computers, servers and other devices at its Washington headquarters. The trespasser had gained access with a personal computer to the network at least six times. "The impact of this incident represents a compromise of the command and control of EPA systems and the EPA network," the agency's inspector general said. Such incidents and their dead-end investigations are prevalent in many of the 14 IG reports on EPA cybersecurity incidents obtained by Greenwire. Records touch on hackers' attempts to access EPA computers, leading to potential shenanigans with property and personnel, including the exposure of employees' personal information.

More than 300 reindeer in a remote mountainous area of Norway were killed by a freak lightning storm late last week.

The Australian state of Victoria has permanently banned hydraulic fracturing for shale gas and coal seams following outcry from farmers and environmental organizations that feared water contamination.

Animal rights activists scored a significant victory yesterday when California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed legislation preventing the use of bullhooks and similar tools to control elephants.

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