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Oregon officials yesterday began informing ranchers who rely on water from the Klamath Basin that they will have to stop irrigating.

SANTA FE, N.M. -- A pair of Mexican wolves that had been in the initial stages of a release in eastern Arizona are on their way back to captivity after receiving a hostile welcome from wolves in the wild, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said yesterday.

The House yesterday unanimously passed a bill that would ease the impacts of new financial regulations on government-owned utilities.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Electricity customers likely will foot a large part of the bill for more than $3 billion in costs associated with the failed San Onofre nuclear plant, the top executive of the facility's owner said this week.

The chief executive of Pebble LP predicts the gold and cooper deposit in Alaska's Bristol Bay region will be developed eventually, but whether it will happen under his tenure remains uncertain.

Republicans are criticizing a top official at the National Institutes of Health for penning an article that ties the increase in chemical use to the rising rate of disease.

The Supreme Court today shot down key provisions in the Port of Los Angeles' program for cleaning up air pollution. In a unanimous opinion, the justices said the port cannot require trucks to display placards and submit off-street parking plans as part of its 2007 Clean Truck Program. The court held that such provisions were pre-empted by a 1994 law that deregulated the trucking industry.

The Supreme Court ruled today that Texas has no right to Oklahoma's water under a 1980 interstate compact in a case seen as having broad implications in the arid western United States. Justices unanimously held in Tarrant Regional Water District v. Herrmann that Oklahoma laws effectively limiting the ability of an out-of-state entity to tap its resources are not pre-empted by the Red River Compact.

While conservation groups have hailed the creation of what was supposed to be one of the world's largest marine reserves that bans all fishing, it has faced some challenges.

Nicaragua's National Assembly yesterday approved a plan to grant a Chinese businessman exclusive rights to develop a multibillion-dollar canal across the nation.

Hawaii plans to more than double its energy savings over the next two years by retrofitting its government buildings.

California state regulators imposed a record $11 million fine yesterday on operators of an unauthorized gold mine in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

A class of pesticides linked to bee population declines may be harming other wildlife species, according to a new report.

The cause of an explosion at a Louisiana chemical plant that killed one employee and injured 77 remains a mystery.

Increasingly, chief financial officers are taking over the domain of corporate sustainability.

A federal railroad oversight board yesterday granted California permission to begin construction this summer on the first stretch of what would be the nation's first bullet train.

A bird-like apparatus able to pierce the sky with help from just the sun, the wind at its back and a pilot -- is such a machine even possible? Yes! And it's coming to the Washington, D.C., area this weekend.

The Department of Energy made small repairs -- tightening valves and replacing worn gaskets -- to cut leaks of a toxic gas by 35,000 pounds a year.

Federal agencies would be able to furnish an American flag to the families of an employee killed while on the job under a newly proposed regulation.

2012, which included severe drought and Superstorm Sandy, was the second-costliest year in natural disaster damages since 1980, government officials said yesterday.

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