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Farms are the top story in Iowa — for food, for energy and for the waste that the state's 20 million or so hogs and millions more cattle produce.

Bill Richardson's endorsement of Barack Obama during the hotly contested 2008 Democratic presidential primary stung Richardson's longtime political allies, Hillary and Bill Clinton.

A top contender to lead the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the next Congress is facing doubts over his commitment to reforming the federal renewable fuel standard if he becomes chairman of the powerful panel.

The United States has entered the "era of mega-cases" in environmental litigation. "You used to be able to count on one hand the number of 1-million-document cases we had. Now I can't do that," said John Cruden, chief of the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division. "Now when we talk about million-document, we talk about terabytes of documents that are there. It's so standard for us."

South Africa has failed to safeguard residents from gold mine pollution, according to a new study from Harvard Law School.

Hurricane Nicole is expected to pass only a couple of miles east of Bermuda this morning, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

While Russian officials plan to slaughter 250,000 Siberian reindeer due to an anthrax outbreak in the region, others warn that a mass cull could snuff out one of the last nomadic reindeer cultures on Earth.

The Allergy and Asthma Network and Moms Clean Air Force today announced an educational initiative detailing links between asthma symptoms and climate change.

A barge struck a dock in southern Texas on Tuesday and leaked around 20,000 gallons of diesel fuel, the Coast Guard has announced.

Duke Energy Corp. has found a 50-foot break in one of its cooling water ponds at a retired plant in Goldsboro, N.C.

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton (D) has refused to partner with North Dakota on a flood diversion project on the two states' border, though the Army Corps of Engineers — and other parties — have promised to press ahead. Dayton's move severely limits North Dakota's options, as the governor's move effectively splits the Red River between the states.

One of the simplest methods of farm conservation — building fences — is also one of the most common supported by the federal government, according to a new database of conservation practices released today by the Environmental Working Group.

U.S. EPA's internal watchdog said the agency could bring in big savings if it used charge cards more often.

While the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe continues to fight against the Dakota Access pipeline, another tribe wants to make it easier to drill for oil and natural gas on its land.

North Dakota's Agriculture Department has responded to the protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline by setting up a hotline to help affected farmers and ranchers south of the Bismarck-Mandan area.

Washington state's attorney general yesterday asked a federal judge to take immediate steps to protect workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation from chemical exposure.

Three environmental groups this week said they plan to sue the Forest Service and other federal agencies over oil and gas drilling in the Los Padres National Forest in California.

A federal appeals court is giving three environmental groups until Nov. 14 to spell out the issues they plan to raise in challenging U.S. EPA's decision against further reconsideration of some parts of its mercury and air toxics emissions regulations for power plants.

The U.S. attorney general for Colorado declined to press criminal charges against a federal employee over the Gold King mine spill, according to U.S. EPA's inspector general.

The Fish and Wildlife Service is expected to announce today that the Columbian white-tailed deer will be downlisted from an endangered to a threatened species.

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