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A British papermaker said it has developed new technology that allows it to recycle disposable coffee cups into high-quality paper products.

The European Union has banned a potent insecticide that some say could wipe out the continent's honeybee population.

Andretti Autosport signed up today as the third team that will race in the environmentally conscious FIA Formula E championship, which will feature electric cars competing in 10 cities across the world starting in 2014.

Ford Motor Co. is offering fuel economy upgrades to U.S. and Canadian hybrid owners amid some complaints the cars aren't getting the promised 47 miles per gallon.

The U.S. Agriculture Department is planning to review its disaster plan rule -- all because of a magician and his rabbit.

Shareholders of a utility blamed for a deadly natural gas pipeline explosion should pay a $2.25 billion penalty, California officials said yesterday in a revised proposal that followed criticisms they were too lenient.

Batteries may be the answer to utilities' problems.

Alarms at a Massachusetts nuclear power plant this week mysteriously shut down and then restarted an hour and a half later.

Energy companies that fail to update their security systems to ward off known viruses are falling prey to hackers who simply tweak the old code, a security expert said.

Xcel Energy Inc. revealed plans to add three large wind farms in Minnesota and North Dakota yesterday in its largest-ever increase in wind generation in the Upper Midwest.

Investigators are trying to figure out whether anyone was contaminated after a radiation leak was discovered at a former nuclear weapons bunker in Texas.

The Agriculture Department will provide $188 million in loan guarantees for rural electric projects in seven states.

Two oil tanker officers pleaded guilty last week to wrongfully disposing of oily bilge wastes and then falsifying records to hide the disposal after being discovered earlier this year on the Mississippi River near New Orleans.

Justice Department prosecutors are pushing for prison time for a former Louisiana wildlife official who pleaded guilty in 2011 to taking payoffs as compensation from one landfill owner's businesses for attempting to keep a rival landfill closed.

Duke Energy Corp.'s political contributions to North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R), a former Duke executive, resulted in a sweetheart deal with state regulators on its proposed settlement of coal ash litigation, a campaign finance watchdog group says.

Republican attorneys general from a dozen states filed suit yesterday against U.S. EPA, seeking documents related to the agency's alleged "sue and settle" practice of crafting regulations after litigation by green groups.

Officials continue to turn up empty-handed in their investigation of why genetically modified wheat ended up on an Oregon farm.

The director of Colorado Parks and Wildlife is leaving to join Vail Resorts, the largest resort operator in the United States, the company announced yesterday.

The Iliamna Village Council in Alaska requested that U.S. EPA rescind an analysis and comments the group submitted regarding a large-scale mine in the Bristol Bay region.

Scientists and watermen are working together to bring oysters back to the Chesapeake Bay.

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