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Proposed wastewater permits in Idaho will require cities to reduce the amount of phosphorus they discharge into the Spokane River by more than 90 percent over the next 10 years.

A controversial government plan to store uranium waste in a Nevada landfill remains on hold after Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval (R) failed to resolve the dispute in a telephone call yesterday.

A program meant to save power on steamy summer days may have accidentally knocked out air conditioning for up to 3,015 Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers across California earlier this month.

Amid an explosion of milky-white water, hundreds of fish turned up dead in Baltimore's Jones Falls stream yesterday.

Two utility workers staved off a disaster this week that could have cut water to more than 100,000 people in suburban Maryland. Residents of Prince George's County expressed irritation, however, that they weren't informed of the plan.

General Motors Inc. has taken the unusual step of studying an electric-car maker to better understand how the upstart firm might threaten its century-old business.

Selling a U.S.-manufactured smart meter in Holland or bringing an electric vehicle from France to California is expected to get easier under an agreement reached yesterday between the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre.

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Coal-fired power generation in Asia will continue to increase for years if not decades into the future, according to a report on the region's long-term energy mix.

The Bureau of Land Management has no intention of halting the leasing of federal coal for mining, as environmental activists are demanding.

With an East Coast heat wave spurring electricity use, New York's main utility is warning that the region could see all-time record-high demand for power today.

Sequestration clouded the prevailing mood of cautious optimism among Department of Defense officials and politicians at the U.S. Military and Renewable Energy Industry Forum yesterday as the officials attempted to reassure interested companies that it still would be worth their while to move forward on projects together.

BP PLC's CEO says claims administrator Patrick Juneau "hijacked" the company's agreement to settle lawsuits stemming from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

At the South Florida Museum in Bradenton, Snooty the manatee will celebrate his 65th birthday with visitors at a free party tomorrow.

Hong Kong customs officials today announced their fifth seizure of smuggled ivory since October -- one of the largest seizures ever made in the city.

SeaWorld is actively fighting back against a new documentary that takes an unflattering look at the marine park's treatment of killer whales.

A 23-year-old solo hiker was found dead yesterday by the summit of an 11,000-foot mountain in Yellowstone National Park.

An oyster farm occupying part of the Point Reyes National Seashore must clean up its area as it awaits a federal court decision on its fate, a Marin County, Calif., judge ruled this week.

A fire raging through mountains south of Palm Springs, Calif., has forced residents of Idyllwild from their homes.

NEW YORK -- Researchers have found evidence of antibiotic-resistant microbes in the Hudson River from the Tappan Zee Bridge north of the city to Lower Manhattan.

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