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Heavy rains and poorly protected farmland combined to cause widespread erosion in Iowa, an environmental watchdog said in a report today.

Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC, the manufacturing giant best known for its jet engines, is building an alternative fuel-powered cargo vessel that it says will help revolutionize the shipping industry.

Five days after a deadly oil train crash in Lac-Mégantic, residents of the tiny town remain in shock as rescue workers continue searching for the remains of missing people in the accident, which has now seen its death toll climb to 20.

A freight train derailed in eastern Oregon yesterday, releasing a small amount of industrial chemicals.

The European Union today took a step toward limiting food-based biofuels' role in the transportation sector amid concerns that the growth of crops for fuels is diverting resources away from food production.

Gogebic Taconite LLC asked an out-of-state security company to withdraw its armed guards from a mining site in northern Wisconsin after announcing yesterday that the company wasn't licensed as a private security contractor within the state.

Mining companies across the world are starting to chip away at the salaries of their high-level employees, as hope for a recovery in the sector dwindles.

Increased spending in the United States, China and South Africa helped clean-energy investment rise by 22 percent in the second quarter of this year over the previous three months, despite a slump in Europe.

Manufacturing defects led to the failure of an Exxon Mobil Corp. pipeline in Arkansas earlier this year, the company said yesterday.

Scientists have created the first accurate, virtual operating nuclear reactor, which is the initial step in extending the life and reducing the waste of the nation's current fleet of reactors, the Energy Department's Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) announced yesterday.

NEW YORK -- State officials in Albany yesterday released their most comprehensive study of offshore wind potential to date in an attempt to shape where future projects are placed.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has lagged in updating environmental reviews when extending the lives of aging reactors because the agency struggles with competing priorities and a plethora of technical issues, the Government Accountability Office said yesterday.

Coal use for power production in the United States is on the upswing as natural gas prices and demand for electricity continue to rise, the Energy Information Administration said in its latest short-term outlook released this week.

A federal appeals court has denied U.S. EPA's request for a rehearing in a closely watched case dealing with wastewater treatment requirements and the agency's ability to informally communicate with regulated entities.

A plan to create two large marine reserves -- with a combined area greater than that of all the protected oceans in the world together -- off Antarctica's coast isn't likely to gain traction in Russia and Ukraine.

Scientists in Montana are attempting to balance the conservation of two rare species in the state's Centennial Valley.

Members of the Crow Tribe are traveling through the Gallatin National Forest and other parts of Montana in an attempt to reconnect with their roots.

A national Hispanic group is launching a campaign to introduce Latinos to the national parks and to raise awareness of what it argues are threats from oil and gas development.

Fish and Wildlife Service officials today made public a major international operation to crack down on illegal wildlife traffickers who sell their goods online.

Gary Loew, who recently retired from a more than 40-year career with the Army Corps of Engineers, has joined Alden Street Consulting as a senior water policy adviser.

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