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Energy development remains a challenge in American Indian country because of bureaucracy and politics, tribal leaders said yesterday.

Only about a quarter of the country's fuel consumers are aware of E15, or gasoline blended with 15 percent ethanol, according to a survey conducted for the National Association of Convenience Stores.

One of the nation's first next-generation biofuel plants is on track to begin producing fuel early next year.

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich will face a misdemeanor charge of operating a boat while intoxicated,the district attorney in Las Vegas said yesterday.

A federal jury yesterday convicted former Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.) of 17 corruption charges related to a land-swap deal in the state he once represented in Congress.

The Southern Environmental Law Center filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against Duke Energy Corp. over alleged water pollution from coal ash waste ponds.

The Psorophora ciliata mosquito, 20 times the size of typical mosquitoes, is set to torment south and central Florida this summer with the onset of the rainy season.

More than 900 inmates in a Colorado prison were evacuated early this morning because of a wildfire.

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council has approved a policy to curb the number of chinook salmon the Gulf of Alaska trawl fleet can unintentionally kill.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has joined forces with the University of Chicago in an effort to put the lab on more solid financial ground.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The state's worst fears about the 2013 wildfire season are becoming reality as at least three major blazes have burned thousands of acres, including a destructive fire just north of here that has destroyed at least 80 homes and forced the evacuation of roughly 7,000 people.

Former Sen. Joe Lieberman's new firm is opening a Washington, D.C., office and has hired his former chief of staff to lead it.

The League of Conservation Voters Action Fund announced today it has set a new record for its GiveGreen bundling program, directing more than $256,000 to Rep. Ed Markey's (D) bid in the Massachusetts Senate special election.

Federal agencies have stopped printing many documents and materials under sequestration, leading to less work for thousands of small printers across the nation, the acting public printer said today.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), a longtime critic of farm support programs, today said that he will vote for the farm bill this year when it hits the House floor.

If U.S. EPA moves to tighten standards for atmospheric ozone to safeguard health, that could throw a large segment of the country into noncompliance and penalize rural areas where ozone levels have little to do with local emissions, a House subcommittee was told today.

An Office of Inspector General audit accusing the Interior Department of potentially losing out on more than $60 million from leasing federal coal to mining companies has only intensified questions about the program.

President Obama's pick for his next regulatory czar used buzzwords at his nomination hearing today that are sure to be well-received by those concerned about a backlog of proposed regulations awaiting White House reviews.

Federal judges have denied a request for rehearing in a case that an industry group claims is a prime example of U.S. EPA engaging in "sue and settle" practices with environmental groups.

Exelon Corp. is scrapping expansion plans at nuclear plants in Illinois and Pennsylvania because of waning demand for electricity and competition with subsidized wind generators. The country's largest owner of nuclear reactors today announced it would sideline plans to add capacity to its LaSalle nuclear plant 75 miles southwest of Chicago and its Limerick plant 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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