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Nevada lawmakers yesterday passed legislation that would overhaul the state's largest energy company.

California officials yesterday began a program to review and overhaul the criticized state parks system.

Billionaire and former Facebook Inc. President Sean Parker is set to pay $2.5 million to fund coastal conservation programs after the Napster co-founder constructed a massive wedding site in an ecologically sensitive area of Big Sur, Calif., without the required permits.

The National Park Service and its philanthropic arm have partnered with "Sesame Street" to educate children about visiting the great outdoors.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced this week that in fiscal 2012, his department reduced its vehicle fleet's petroleum fuel use, exceeded its greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals and improved its overall renewable energy record.

The European Union is planning to impose an 11 percent tariff on Chinese solar panels, according to phone calls between senior E.U. and Chinese officials made this weekend.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. failed to spend more than $50 million meant to fund improvements to the natural gas lines that run through residential areas during the 11 years leading up to the 2010 San Bruno, Calif., pipeline explosion, and the utility has not adequately rectified the situation since the incident, a state-commissioned audit says.

The Energy Department today announced $10 million to reduce sticker shock over light-emitting diodes (LEDs) through more efficient manufacturing processes.

Production of plastics, fertilizers, pesticides and other bulk chemicals accounted for nearly 5 percent of the nation's energy use in 2010, and that share is expected to rise in the future at a rate greater than the overall economy, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Expanded development and use of natural gas can help lower the United States' carbon dioxide emissions in the near term but will not be enough to meet longer-term emissions targets, according to a new report by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions.

A U.S. bankruptcy court judge recently approved a plan to get out of bankruptcy a glass and insulation maker that has long been mired in lawsuits.

Two leading Southern environmental law firms have joined forces.

The Natural Resources Defense Council is suing the Food and Drug Administration and the Center for Veterinary Medicine for failing to provide data on the volume of antibiotics used in meat production.

Endangered humpback chubs have been found spawning in Havasu Creek in Grand Canyon National Park, NPS biologists said.

An influx of jellyfish in the Mediterranean Sea threatens both biodiversity and tourists, scientists said.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D) said he favored a permanent barrier between Chicago's canal system and Lake Michigan to keep invasive Asian carp out of the Great Lakes.

HOUSTON -- Twenty people gathered at a city park here on a pleasant spring afternoon declared the day perfect for a canoe trip -- possibly the first time anyone has said that in industrialized east Houston.

A federal emergency rule limiting the recreational red snapper fishing season in the Gulf of Mexico was found to be "totally unacceptable" and thrown out by a U.S. District Court judge late last week.

Environmentalists are suing federal fisheries managers for opening areas off New England to commercial fishing and setting catch limits they say are too high for struggling fish stocks, including Gulf of Maine cod.

West Virginia Republican Rep. David McKinley's new legislation for regulating combustion waste from power plants hasn't won over environmentalists who would rather let U.S. EPA finish its own rulemaking.

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