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U.S. EPA acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe came under fire this morning from Republicans concerned that his agency is contributing to "a culture of anti-conservative attitude" within the Obama administration.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today approved Gina McCarthy's nomination to head U.S. EPA in a 10-8 party-line vote.

A Chilean judge dismissed an appeal to suspend involuntary manslaughter charges against four government officials.

China's State Grid Corp. is slated to purchase a 19.9 percent stake in an Australian electricity network company for about $800 million.

Once wildly popular, Indian circuses are now struggling to fill seats after courts banned the use of wild animals in the 1990s and child performers two years ago.

Belgium's nuclear safety regulator will recommend today reopening two GDF Suez nuclear reactors shut down last year over safety concerns, according to a Le Soir news article that cited a person familiar with the regulator's report.

A measure that cleared the Missouri Legislature this week would shield a Missouri-based lead mining company from punitive damages in contamination lawsuits.

The Minnesota Legislature approved a bill yesterday to implement new solar energy requirements for large utilities.

Officials from the Texas State Fire Marshal's Office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives yesterday detailed the sequence of events of last month's deadly explosion of a Texas fertilizer plant, but they said there isn't enough evidence to determine the exact cause of the accident.

The General Services Administration violated "many" legal requirements when doling out almost $160,000 in bonuses over three years, according to a new report from the agency's inspector general.

Three unplanned shutdowns of a nuclear reactor at Florida's Turkey Point plant have prompted an investigation into the Florida Power & Light Co.'s facility.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission yesterday took steps to armor the U.S. electric grid against rare solar flares capable of distorting the Earth's magnetic field, incinerating transformers and triggering devastating blackouts.

A federal judge ordered Dow Chemical Co. to pay $1.2 billion after it challenged a jury's verdict that found the company conspired with competitors in a urethane price-fixing case.

A woman who impersonated a high-ranking federal official and provided fraudulent hazardous waste safety training after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster was sentenced yesterday to 57 months in prison and ordered to pay $23,500 in restitution to victims.

A National Marine Fisheries Service decision to look into listing an Alaskan population of harbor seals as a threatened species could affect the massive Pebble Mine project.

Prosecutors said they won't file charges against loggers whose equipment appears to have sparked a massive wildfire in northwestern Wisconsin.

The Bureau of Land Management is facing a lawsuit after it announced earlier this week that it would not issue a patent for federal land in southern Nevada.

Several mining projects near the Great Lakes are moving forward, including a proposal to restart iron production in Wisconsin.

A federal judge yesterday rejected a request from industry groups that he reconsider his decision upholding federal restrictions on large-scale mining near Grand Canyon National Park.

A bipartisan group of Western lawmakers yesterday made their legal case to the White House that the government still owes them nearly $110 million in oil, gas and coal payments -- federal sequester or no.

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