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The Bureau of Land Management is renewing a partnership with a nonprofit that works with farmers on land and water stewardship measures, advancing the Obama administration's commitment to working with private landowners to achieve conservation goals.

A majority of voters support allowing wolves to recolonize suitable habitat in the southern Rocky Mountains, California and the Northeast where protections for the predators will soon be lifted, according to a new poll commissioned by the Center for Biological Diversity.

Alice Madden, the former Colorado House majority leader, will join the Energy Department as deputy assistant secretary of intergovernmental affairs and external relations.

Brazilian producers of sugar cane ethanol are warning that a U.S. EPA proposal would disrupt U.S.-Brazil ethanol trade, would complicate efforts to meet domestic biofuel goals and might violate international trade rules.

Federal regulators have not conducted unannounced tests of oil pipeline companies' emergency response capabilities since 2005, according to documents released today by a nonprofit government watchdog group.

Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) indicated today that the Law of the Sea Treaty will not pass the Senate until after the 2014 Senate elections, even as officials from the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard emphasized the importance of the treaty's ratification to the country's stake in the Arctic.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved legislation today that would give the Department of Energy veto power over U.S. EPA's air and water rules after a partisan debate today over climate change.

The economic recovery and low natural gas prices are shifting companies' attention away from energy efficiency, according to a report released yesterday by the consultant Deloitte LLP.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ordered Barclays Bank PLC and four of its traders yesterday to pay $453 million in civil penalties for manipulating power markets in California and other Western states, a finding the bank is expected to fight.

President Clinton today said efforts to bolster the world's economy rest on a commitment to a "sustainable, green, shared future" at a ceremony that renamed U.S. EPA's Washington, D.C., headquarters in his honor.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell this morning said she has stopped a controversial program designed to recognize conservation of valuable watersheds, a move aimed at appeasing Republican critics ahead of a House hearing on the program this afternoon.

As the House and Senate debate the merits of the renewable fuel standard and the impact renewable identification number prices are having on fuels markets, will Congress move to repeal the current RFS? During today's OnPoint, Brian Jennings, executive vice president at the American Coalition for Ethanol, explains why he believes there is strong support in Congress for maintaining the current RFS. He also discusses how policy uncertainty is affecting his industry's investments.

China is poised to impose duties of as much as 57 percent on polysilicon shipped from the United States and South Korea.

Though steam or vapors appeared to be coming from Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant this morning, the plant's operator said its situation was stable.

Ohio lawmakers who shot down a proposed hydraulic fracturing tax received hundreds of thousands of dollars in political contributions from the state's largest oil and gas companies, according to a new report.

Cleanup efforts are still ongoing eight years after the worst environmental disaster in North Dakota history.

Around the United States, a growing demand for corn and an increased supply of natural gas have resulted in a rise in fertilizer plant proposals.

People who use alternative transportation or who work from home could save, on average, up to $1,800 annually, according to a recent analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Federal agencies have eliminated 64 percent of in-house printing plants in the past 20 years, turning to digital publications and outsourcing most of their hard-copy needs, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.

A multibillion-dollar Japanese technology investment company is partnering with Silicon Valley fuel-cell startup Bloom Energy Corp.

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