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A federal court yesterday sentenced an ex-Army Corps of Engineers official who led the largest bribery scheme in federal contracting history to nearly two decades in prison.

Thousands of birds are flocking to tailings ponds in the Canadian oil sands, ignoring the loud noise cannons used to deter them, according to a new study. However, very few are dying from the contact.

In the past 20 years, jellyfish have become more and more common in the world's oceans.

Officials expected tourism in Colorado's Pikes Peak region to drop after last year's devastating Waldo Canyon fire in the area, but that hasn't been the case, despite more wildfires this year.

Smokey Bear, the iconic authority figure on wildfire prevention, is changing his tune in a new advertising campaign produced by the nonprofit Advertising Council.

As the weather heats up and droughts persist across the southern High Plains over the next four decades, the ability of the lesser prairie chicken to survive and thrive could be significantly hampered, according to a new study led by the U.S. Geological Survey and researchers at Texas Tech University.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers from both the House and the Senate are seeking to boost funding for research on crop diseases and other agricultural issues.

House energy leaders this week are wrapping up a review of the renewable fuel standard, the federal policy that mandates that the country blend 36 billion gallons of biofuel into the motor fuel supply by 2022.

Top Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are calling on the Government Accountability Office to review federal export policies that experts and former regulators have warned are outdated and could jeopardize the U.S. nuclear energy industry's future.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will resign from her position in order to lead the University of California system.

The Department of Energy early this month released a long-awaited strategy for the sale of excess government-owned uranium, but the mining industry and some members of Congress have criticized the new policy.

On the same day this week that Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) secured a $22.5 million increase in the House budget for nuclear weapons cleanup at the Department of Energy's Hanford site, the agency's inspector general issued a new audit detailing more than $2 million in unnecessary spending by a Hanford contractor.

At the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C., yesterday, Todd Brethauer fielded questions from visitors eager to learn about the most popular plant of the moment: the "corpse flower."

The Navy this week broke ground on a project that will tear down its last coal-fired power plant, both a practical and a symbolic gesture as the military seeks to cut both energy costs and carbon emissions.

It's become a rallying call for the Republican Party and business groups: Reform the National Environmental Policy Act.

A three-judge panel scrapped a U.S. EPA rule today that had given biomass-burning facilities a pass on compliance with federal greenhouse gas emission standards.

How should industry be collaborating with and engaging the government on power plant emissions standards for new and existing sources? During today's OnPoint, Thomas Lorenzen, a partner at Dorsey & Whitney, gives his recommendations for how utilities should be weighing in on President Obama's Climate Action Plan. Lorenzen, who as assistant chief in the environment and natural resources division at the Department of Justice for the past decade was in charge of the defense of every U.S. EPA rule, discusses the potential legal challenges facing EPA as it moves forward with the power plant performance standards.

China on Saturday abandoned plans to build a uranium processing plant in response to protests from residents who claimed the project posed serious environmental risks.

In an effort to highlight security flaws at an Électricité de France SA power plant and to demand its closure, roughly 30 Greenpeace activists scaled the fences of the Tricastin plant in southern France today.

China plans to quadruple its solar power generating capacity by 2015 to address the glut of products on the market from its solar panel industry.

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