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The final bids to build the first leg of California's bullet train track will be submitted Friday, but neither the public nor officials will see the estimated costs until after…

After seven months of delays, construction will begin again on a waste-treatment plant located at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site. The plant on Washington state's Hanford nuclear reservation is…

In an interview with the New Orleans Times-Picayune, outgoing U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson reflected on her four-year tenure, calling the legislation to send 80 percent of fines from the…

In government planning, there are such things as yearly office progress targets, and then there's the U.S. EPA inspector general's fiscal 2013 annual plan. The plan Inspector General Arthur Elkins…

National Park Service spokesman David Barna will retire on Feb. 1, the agency announced today. Barna, 62, has served as NPS's chief spokesman since 1995, working on a range of…

The British crown estate is set to invest $32 million into wave and tidal projects in the United Kingdom. The industries have suffered from a lack of funding in Great…

An oil leak discovered in a pipeline system off the coast of Shetland prompted Abu Dhabi National Energy, the pipeline's operator, to close down up to 27 of its oil…

U.S. EPA decided not to move forward with a potential well-contamination case after the driller threatened not to cooperate with a national study into hydraulic fracturing, according to a confidential…

Russians in the Sakha Republic are being encouraged to target wolves as game for the next three months. The announcement was issued in light of concerns that wolves were cutting…

Kenyan police yesterday seized 100 million shillings, or $1.15 million, worth of ivory, the largest haul ever recorded. The 2 tons of ivory was in transit from Rwanda and Tanzania…

Environmental groups are up in arms after the Army Corps of Engineers felled a wildlife preserve at the Sepulveda Basin in California. The Audubon Society, the Sierra Club and Friends…

Florida International University has thrown a life preserver to the imperiled Aquarius Reef Base, the world's only operational underwater research station. The Miami-based school said yesterday that it would step…

Chemicals from plastic floating in the ocean pose a likely threat to marine life, a new study says. University of California, Davis, researchers found that plastics soak up contaminants in…

Fisheries managers may need to rethink how they set catch limits because new research is questioning a fundamental part of the equation. Sustainable harvests typically target the growth of a…

A Utah Republican is resurrecting an effort to gut the president's ability to designate new national monuments. A bill introduced yesterday by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), H.R. 250, would amend…

After much ado about the carbon tax last summer in think tanks and policy shops around town, it finally made an appearance yesterday on Capitol Hill when a group of…

Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee indicated yesterday that they plan to scrutinize the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's new post-Fukushima safety upgrades for U.S. reactors with the same zeal…

Chuck Hagel's ties to Chevron Corp. haven't caused a stir as the former senator makes his bid to become the next Defense secretary. The Nebraska Republican has sat on Chevron's…

Environmentalists, congressional staffers and Obama administration officials paid tribute yesterday to the late Earthjustice lawyer Joan Mulhern at a Washington, D.C., memorial service. Mulhern, who died last month after a…

Outgoing Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire touted myriad accomplishments that would qualify her for several top posts in the Obama administration -- including U.S. EPA chief -- in her final address…

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