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John Podesta emails about pasta nearly as much as he writes about climate change policy.

It's hard to fluster Yale professor Dan Esty, a polished energy and environment commentator and sought-after sustainability guru who commands speaking fees of more than $20,000.

Macy Hinson noticed his neighbors were dying too young.

U.S. EPA is seeking a headquarters-level discussion with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to promote deeper, more comprehensive climate reviews of proposed natural gas pipelines.

Colorado politicians yesterday urged an investigation into the Air Force's use of a chemical found in firefighting foam after the Colorado Springs Gazette found that the military disregarded risks of the compound for decades.

Few families have left a housing complex in East Chicago, Ind., that is contaminated with lead and scheduled for demolition.

A team of professionally trained dogs is sniffing out human poo.

U.S. EPA is set to publish tomorrow its updated Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, opening a standard 60-day window for legal challenges to be filed.

Reacting to a series of high-profile hacks and the spread of automated technologies, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released new cybersecurity guidelines for automobiles yesterday.

Swiss chemicals giant Syngenta AG announced today that its proposed buyout by Chinese firm ChemChina will likely be pushed into early 2017, as European Union officials are pressing for more information amid major acquisitions in the industry.

Farm and dairy groups are outraged at Dannon Co.'s new pledge to source milk from cows raised without biotech grain.

The price of coal in North Korea has surged by 40 percent, bolstering Pyongyang's nuclear program and hurting U.S.-led attempts to force the elusive country into talks by choking its finances.

What's killing coal? The whodunit at the heart of the industry's future has two very different primary suspects.

Pope Francis' direct call to action on climate change "backfired" with conservative Catholics and non-Catholics, according to a new national survey by public policy researchers at the University of Pennsylvania.

A Houston oil executive will not face assault charges three years after he was accused of injuring a police officer at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.

A federal court today dismissed a lawsuit alleging market manipulation of wholesale electricity capacity rates in New England.

Colorado has asked the Supreme Court to reject New Mexico's attempt to bring a lawsuit against it over last year's Gold King abandoned mine spill.

A federal judge today signed off on the landmark $14.7 billion settlement between regulators and Volkswagen Group of America Inc. over the recent emissions cheating scandal.

The USS Zuni, which towed torpedoed warships in World War II and later saved seven people in a New England storm, will soon be sunk off the coast of New Jersey to become an artificial reef.

Voters in areas covered by the Northwest Forest Plan say their top priority is clean water as the federal government weighs revision to the 20-year-old framework, according to a poll commissioned by the Wilderness Society.

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