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Transocean Ltd. yesterday lost another round in its legal efforts to stall turning over documents related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill when a federal appellate court denied its request to postpone a lower court's ruling.

Federal judges yesterday denied a request from anti-nuclear advocates to rehear a case that upheld federal approval of the design for the first U.S. nuclear plant since 1978.

San Antonio will spend $1.1 billion to overhaul its sewer system and pay a $2.6 million civil penalty to resolve Clean Water Act violations, the Department of Justice said yesterday.

A federal judge ruled this week that a coal company operating in Virginia had to obtain permits for discharges of selenium from one of its mines.

For those who missed the blooming of the "corpse flower" at the U.S. Botanic Garden, another is about to unfurl on the other side of the country.

The booming cashmere trade is posing a threat to endangered snow leopards in Central Asia, researchers said in a new report.

A 100-foot-tall cell tower will soon be built in Yellowstone National Park.

The Wilderness Society has released a report highlighting a dozen national parks, forests, wildlife refuges and other sensitive landscapes that the group says are threatened by nearby oil and natural gas development that could ruin their natural beauty.

The Obama administration this morning announced new measures in its effort to keep voracious Asian carp out of the Great Lakes by strengthening electronic barriers, deploying water guns and chemicals, and physically blocking key passages to the lakes from Mississippi River basins.

Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic nominee in Virginia's gubernatorial race, is under attack by Republicans for his connection to a federal investigation into a program that offers visas to foreign investors.

Earthjustice announced staff moves today to serve the nonprofit law firm's expanding efforts against power plant pollution.

The outgoing chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission yesterday urged the federal government to wean the solar industry off incentives to ensure generators can compete with other sources of power.

The House is set to vote this week on two amendments that would constrain how the Obama administration uses its newly revised estimate for the social cost of carbon (SCC) to justify future rulemakings.

Tea party activist Matt Bevin launched a GOP primary challenge to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) today, and the duo are already sparring on Kentucky's airwaves in a pair of critical television spots.

A bipartisan pair of senators are seeking to prohibit U.S. EPA from distributing data on livestock operations in response to the agency's release earlier this year of hundreds of pages of data to three environmental groups. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) yesterday introduced legislation that would bar the agency in the future from releasing identifying data on any operations involved in the raising or finishing of livestock or poultry.

The House approved amendments to its defense appropriations bill last night aimed at promoting military use of traditional fuels over the alternative fuels the military has been driving toward.

A burgeoning demand-response industry flexed its muscles during a heat wave on the East Coast last week by powering down machines at key times to de-stress the aging electric grid.

A passionate debate over civil rights erupted at a committee meeting this morning to mark up a slew of regulatory reform bills, with Democrats at one point accusing Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) of comparing the plight of discriminated-against minorities to the endangered snail darter.