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White House delays in reviewing renewable fuel feedstocks are hurting investments in advanced biofuels, a coalition of advanced ethanol producers yesterday told the Office of Management and Budget. Stalled reviews…

More than 150 donors to President Obama's last two campaigns are urging him to reject the Keystone XL oil pipeline, saying his decision carries the same "urgency and importance" as…

A San Diego utility yesterday won the right to hike power bills an average 12.2 percent, funding that in part will go toward costs connected with California's climate and energy…

The Interior and Commerce departments this morning announced the beginning of a multiyear review of the impacts of oil and gas activities on marine mammals and fish in the Gulf…

President Obama yesterday nominated the Department of Energy's general counsel to the federal bench. Gregory Howard Woods has served at the Energy Department for about a year. He is nominated…

The House farm bill would strip the Department of Agriculture of its authority to fund the installation of ethanol pumps at gas stations, as well as prohibit new permits that U.S. EPA requires for pesticides sprayed over water.

What policy lessons can the United States learn from Germany's experiences expanding its renewable energy market? During today's OnPoint, Rainer Baake, former deputy minister at the German Federal Environment Ministry and a key architect of Germany's energy transition, discusses his country's experiences crafting a federal policy on clean energy. Baake, now director of Agora Energiewende, also talks about the relationship between states, municipalities and the federal government in creating policy.

Men who were exposed to Agent Orange chemicals used during the Vietnam War are at greater risk for a potentially deadly prostate cancer than unexposed veterans, a new study said.

Scientists monitoring Alaska's volcanoes have been forced to close stations that provide up-to-the-minute tracking of eruptions and abandon repairs of seismic equipment among continuing federal budget cuts.

The owner of New Jersey's biggest utility will take over operations of the Long Island Power Authority, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said yesterday.

The Tennessee Valley Authority will present early retirement incentives to some employees of its coal-fired power plants.

Companies are paying top dollar -- in some cases $600 a square foot -- to rent space in the data centers that dot the Hudson River in New Jersey.

Coal production in central Appalachia will continue to decline, affecting numerous communities in the region, according to a report out today.

The sun yesterday unleashed its largest solar flare so far this year.

Exxon Mobil Corp. is challenging $1.7 million in penalties for a 63,000-gallon crude oil spill in the Yellowstone River, according to documents.

AES Corp. said it will retire or repower several of its coal-fired power plants in Indiana and Ohio, joining other U.S. power companies that are shutting down similar plants.

Pipelines in North America spilled three times the amount of crude oil as trains covering comparable distances during an eight-year period, the International Energy Agency said today in a study based on Department of Transportation data.

One of the two agencies that monitor greenhouse gases said yesterday that it had revised downward a measurement from last week indicating that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere had exceeded the symbolic level of 400 parts per million.

A state law that would have prevented some federal officials from enforcing state laws anywhere in Utah was temporarily blocked yesterday by a federal judge.

Federal judges today brushed aside an effort by environmental groups to force the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to re-evaluate the design of the first new nuclear plant in the United States since 1978 in light of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi disaster two years ago.

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