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An invasive beetle that crossed into Southern California from Mexico more than five years ago is continuing to head north, threatening ornamental palm trees and date palms.

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that Duke Energy Corp. can charge consumers more than $55 million to cover the cleanup at two closed fuel gas facilities in Cincinnati.

Tesla's next-generation electric car will go on sale starting Friday.

Canada's largest oil producer has a new strategy to attract investment: promising not to invest in oil sands for the "foreseeable future."

Massachusetts regulators have asked utilities to deploy storage technologies capable of dispatching 200 megawatt-hours of electricity by 2020, adding to the list of states looking to deploy batteries and other technologies to better manage power delivery and consumption.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is lowering most of the fees it collects from rector operators for the third year in a row.

ATLANTA — The cost to finish Georgia Power's nuclear expansion project remains unclear, but the battle over who will pay is all but certain.

Late last month, American Airlines cancelled 57 flights out of Phoenix after temperatures hit 120 degrees Fahrenheit.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said the U.S. may reach the Paris climate accord's emission goals despite President Trump's decision to leave the agreement.

George Clemon Freeman Jr., an attorney who long represented investor-owned utilities and who built up the environmental practice at Hunton & Williams LLP, died Monday, June 26. He was 88.

Severe weather across the western United States took a heavier-than-normal toll on wildlife this winter.

A tiny, rare butterfly is flourishing at several military bases because of the way open spaces are managed there, biologists said.

A small number of hatchery Pacific salmon that stray from their predetermined paths each year could pose dangers to their wild counterparts, according to a new study.

The Interior Department is moving to reverse an Obama administration block of a road through Alaska's Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.

Three more environmental groups have notified the Fish and Wildlife Service that they plan to file a federal lawsuit challenging last month's decision to remove Yellowstone-area grizzly bears from a list of federally protected species.

A Forest Service ranger in Montana was reassigned after landowners lobbied Republican Sen. Steve Daines over the official's management of public access to the Crazy Mountains.

With plans to advance the Yucca Mountain, Nev., nuclear waste repository moving in the House with Energy Secretary Rick Perry firmly behind them, project foes in Nevada aren't panicking.

Arizona Rep. Raúl Grijalva, the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, on Friday directed the Government Accountability Office to examine how federal land management agencies are tracking and responding to threats from "anti-government extremism."

Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) will run for re-election next year, forgoing a challenge to Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill.

Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking is attacking President Trump for pledging to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement, saying the action could lead to irreversible global warming that makes the planet uninhabitable.

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