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A Michigan beer maker is suing to stop the cleanup of an oil spill on the Kalamazoo River over fears that the dredging project could contaminate its brewing operations.

U.S. EPA this week approved California's plan to improve its drinking water systems after threatening to halt funding to the state amid previous stalled plans.

U.S. EPA officials this week rejected a 2-year-old rule that permitted some new pollution to be released into Idaho waterways without review.

Luxury car giant BMW AG plans to invest in a British network of electric-vehicle charging stations, according to a source familiar with the deal.

At least 77 people are dead and dozens more are injured after a passenger train crashed in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Hazardous materials crews this morning responded to an ethanol spill on a roadway in Florida after a CSX train derailed shortly after midnight at the Port of Tampa.

The cost of batteries for electric vehicles is expected to drop by half and battery electric vehicles with 100-mile range will be the cheapest car to own and operate in less than a decade, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers on behalf of the Electrification Coalition.

Over the past year, federal agencies have saved $885 million through a governmentwide information technology reform effort aimed at eliminating unnecessary investments, closing data centers and pooling resources, according to the White House.

Comments made by a group linked to a Hercules Offshore executive take on new relevance after news that a rig the company operates blew out and caught fire off the coast of Louisiana this week.

The natural gas flow has stopped at a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico, according to U.S. regulators.

An appeals court has decided that a jury can hear a suit claiming that chemicals developed by the original Monsanto company caused cancer.

Environmentalists are suing BNSF Railway Co., arguing that the company's coal-carrying open-top rail cars pollute the environment.

Conservationists, public health advocates and farmworkers groups have filed a legal challenge to force U.S. EPA to set standards for limiting pesticide drift to protect children in rural areas.

A preliminary U.S. EPA notice of violation of the Clean Air Act is not sufficient grounds for a citizens group to force the agency to deny a power plant its operating permit, federal judges ruled this week in a case involving a large coal-fired unit in Colorado.

An expressway that would link interstate highways in Illinois and Indiana would damage a federally protected swath of tallgrass prairie, farmland and waterways, three environmental groups say in a lawsuit filed in federal court earlier this month.

A federal judge has upheld the Forest Service's decision to close much of Montana's largest national forest to motorized vehicles and protect some lands as wilderness in a major victory for two environmental groups.

President Obama's pick to lead the Navy's controversial energy program appeared before a Senate panel today with a phalanx of high-profile supporters, but the panel's lead opponent of the program indicated he would support the nomination.

The number of Republicans seeking to topple Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) in 2014 is growing, but the first-term governor is still heavily favored to win the race despite a recent slide in the polls.

A coalition of environmentalists and green building supporters are urging senators not to end a phaseout of fossil energy use in federal buildings, and at least one leading renewable energy association is said to be stepping up its involvement in the debate, according to sources familiar with the situation.

The Obama administration will kick off work on its Quadrennial Energy Review at the Energy Department with a focus on climate change, power line and pipeline financing, and what role the cash-strapped federal government will play, a top adviser for Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said today.

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