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Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the five-term West Virginia Democrat who has spent more than four decades in public life, announced this morning that he will not run for re-election in 2014.…

Man-made climate change is already altering the way Americans live and work, according to a new federal report that projects the country could warm another 5-10 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century if emissions of heat-trapping gases continue to rise.

In a recent open letter to President Obama, the Clean Air Task Force highlighted a series of climate policy recommendations that could help the United States achieve its 2020 emissions…

China's Ministry of Environmental Protection has promised to curb vehicle emissions as the country experiences some of its worst air pollution levels on record. The auto industry in China has…

Investigators detected 58 health and safety violations at the iconic Hoover Dam near Las Vegas, according to a statement this week from federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration regional chief…

Shots fired near the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Mass., over the weekend turned out to come from a pair of duck hunters in Cape Cod Bay, officials said.…

Portland General Electric said its new transmission lines won't need to traverse the Cascades mountain range after it struck a deal with the Bonneville Power Administration. The so-called Cascade Crossing…

A private developer with plans to build a chain of offshore wind farms along the East Coast announced plans today to build its first section of underwater transmission lines off…

Deregulating utilities hurts both workers and customers, but it benefits shareholders and executives, a Hearst newspapers investigation has found. In the last decade of deregulation, workers were laid off and…

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has assembled an internal expert panel to determine the fate of the broken San Onofre nuclear plant in California. The 12-person panel will oversee Southern California…

Louisiana's attorney general spent nearly $24 million building the state's case against BP PLC over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, well above that of his counterparts in other…

An attorney for New Hampshire yesterday said Exxon Mobil Corp. knew that incidents of groundwater contamination would triple with the use of a gasoline additive that helps fuel burn more…

Colorado state regulators must consider new evidence presented during hearings last year before licensing the controversial Piñon Ridge uranium mill, an arbiter ruled yesterday. The proposed Energy Fuels Inc. facility…

A federal court today denied petitions by groups representing oil refiners, food producers and automakers to rehear their cases challenging U.S. EPA's approval of expanded ethanol use in the market.…

Black carbon from diesel engines, kilns, inefficient stoves and other sources accounts for nearly twice the amount of man-made warming than previously believed, according to a report published today in…

The Audubon Nature Institute and San Diego Zoo are working together on a five-year project to create a habitat for endangered species near New Orleans. The alliance, announced today, will…

A collaborative $10 million project involving support from federal, state and local levels is trying to restore the San Joaquin Valley floodplain in California, which was destroyed during the gold…

Conservationists in several states are butting heads with state regulators over wolf hunting. In Montana, a state judge will decide whether hunters and trappers can continue to pursue gray wolves…

The creator of the PBS documentary film series "POV" has joined the Sierra Club Foundation's board of directors. Marc Weiss, creator of the PBS series "POV," has joined the Sierra…

The Independent Petroleum Association of America announced today that it has hired two former House Republican aides to lobby for expanded oil and natural gas drilling and work with companies…

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