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Enbridge Energy Partners LP is cleaning up a 2,500-barrel crude oil leak it discovered in Oklahoma on Saturday afternoon.

A byproduct of refining Canada's oil sands has been accumulating on the Canadian side of the Detroit River.

Texas became the fifth Gulf of Mexico state to file suit against BP PLC, Transocean Ltd. and others over their involvement in the 2010 oil spill.

A federal appeals panel sided with a lower court that ruled that alfalfa genetically modified to withstand Monsanto Co.'s Roundup weed killer did not need to be regulated.

The harlequin ladybird, once prized by greenhouse growers around the world for its aphid-eating abilities, houses a parasite that has caused significant declines in other ladybug populations, a new study has found.

Millions of dollars have been invested in the reintroduction of the endangered whooping crane to Wisconsin, but the birds keep leaving their nests.

Four environmental groups are looking for a federal judge to halt operations at the sheep research station on the Idaho-Montana border, which they say is harming the area's grizzly bear population.

The National Wildlife Federation Action Fund announced Friday that Andy Buchsbaum will be its interim executive director.

A Legal 500 United States-ranked lawyer with Interior Department and Capitol Hill experience is moving to a K Street law firm.

An Orthodox priest known for his efforts to mediate disputes between Native communities and business interests has joined a lobbying campaign on Capitol Hill against a potential gold and copper mine in the Bristol Bay area of Alaska.

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell (R) today pledged to request up to $50 million from the state to help fund an updated assessment of oil and gas resources in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, part of a broader proposal to allow drilling in the refuge's 1.5-million-acre coastal plain.

Los Angeles elects a new mayor tomorrow, and a poll released over the weekend shows City Councilman Eric Garcetti leading by 7 points over City Controller Wendy Greuel.

An executive memo signed by President Obama aims to streamline the review and permitting process for infrastructure projects backed by the federal government, the White House confirmed last week.

The White House has completed a seven-month review of renewable fuel technologies and feedstocks.

Lawmakers are set to continue their scolding of the Internal Revenue Service this week over the agency's treatment of conservative political groups, and government reform advocates say the hearings could have an unanticipated upside: creating momentum for campaign finance reform.

A California congresswoman Friday introduced legislation that would create a national strategy for addressing the public health effects of climate change, including respiratory illness, allergies and tropical diseases.

A marquee efficiency bill working its way through Congress is a "first step" toward major energy reductions that should be augmented with additional legislation and private sector efforts, stakeholders said this morning.

Congressional Republicans are ramping up their inquiry into U.S. EPA's decisions on requested Freedom of Information Act fee waivers.

Top agency officials would no longer receive bonuses during sequestration under bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate last week.

Exporting the country's newfound glut of shale gas will have a "modest" effect on domestic prices because of economic factors within the United States as well as large costs tied to transporting and liquefying gas, according to a new report.

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