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Nearly two months after proposing a rule to lower sulfur levels in gasoline, U.S. EPA is set to publish it in the Federal Register tomorrow.

A Supreme Court ruling on the government's international wiretapping operations could impinge on efforts by advocacy groups to file lawsuits under environmental laws, according to some experts in environmental law.

How are local communities successfully attracting investments in the clean energy sector? During today's OnPoint, Nicole Stika, senior director of energy services at the Council of Smaller Enterprises in Cleveland, discusses a new report produced by Chambers for Innovation and Clean Energy showing local Chambers of Commerce are driving economic development around clean energy. Stika explains how these local success stories can help shape national energy policy.

Most of the shipwrecks located off the U.S. coastline pose only a minor pollution threat, a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study found.

The water levels in aquifers are dropping at an unprecedented rate in the United States.

Regulations that would restrict smog-causing emissions from large oceangoing ships could be delayed five years past their planned 2016 implementation date under an amendment agreed to by the International Maritime Organization.

California must expedite approval of water sales to protect agriculture during what's expected to be a dry summer and fall, Gov. Jerry Brown said in an executive order yesterday.

The Department of Energy has a full-time boss again.

Several agrichemical companies are taking on programs to investigate honeybee declines, just as environmental activists say their pesticides could be killing off millions of the insects.

U.S. and E.U. officials are developing a settlement plan for the world's biggest anti-dumping and anti-subsidy trade cases, advisers said.

Former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, a Democrat, was elected chairman of the Stillwater Mining Co. board.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has put off indefinitely a decision to restart the San Onofre nuclear power plant in California, and some are questioning whether the plant will come back online at all.

Royal Dutch Shell PLC was concerned about the potential for disaster days before its drillship, the Kulluk, ran aground in the Gulf of Alaska this winter, a company official told a U.S. Coast Guard panel.

Wind turbine manufacturer Siemens AG confirmed that a 170-foot blade fell off a wind turbine at a power plant east of San Diego, causing the company to cease operations of the same type of turbine globally.

Xcel Energy Inc. wants to use beetle-killed trees and other forest waste in Colorado to generate electricity.

NEW YORK -- Entergy Nuclear today offered 1,375 megawatts in nuclear-powered electricity to the highest bidder in response to the New York Power Authority's request for proposals for long-term power after 2016.

A federal judge tossed an obstruction of Congress charge leveled against a former BP PLC executive alleged to have lied about the amount of oil that was gushing in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill.

Southern California Edison Co. should pay $37 million for failings that contributed to a costly 2007 brush fire, an arm of the state's utility regulator recommended yesterday.