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As the House Energy and Commerce Committee this week weighs whether to repeal or change the federal biofuel mandate, experts agree that eliminating it wouldn't necessarily halt the use of corn ethanol in transportation fuel.

The Department of Energy is helping to ensure that the coal industry can continue to function in a carbon-constrained world by investing in technologies to reduce its greenhouse gas footprint, a top DOE official told lawmakers today.

The House GOP voted 265-155 today to pass legislation aimed at preventing U.S. EPA from regulating ash from coal-fired power plants as hazardous waste.

House Republicans this morning began a pre-emptive legislative strike to block new draft rules from the Bureau of Land Management governing the controversial but widespread technique of hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas.

About 80 teen workers were detasseling corn in an eastern Illinois corn field when they were accidentally sprayed with fungicide from a crop-dusting plane, officials said.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has failed to clean up the groundwater beneath a small California town in the Mojave Desert after losing a settlement to the town's residents 17 years ago, leaving the utility open to another lawsuit.

A Canadian oil company can't stop a 2-month-old oil leak underneath an air force base in Alberta, according to government regulators.

Federal engineers yesterday opened the floodgates at a massive south Florida lake yesterday, spilling millions of gallons of polluted water into the region's waterways.

U.S. EPA has designated 29 areas in 16 states as "nonattainment" areas for being in violation of the national air quality standard for sulfur dioxide.

The Agriculture Department yesterday formally named Jason Weller to head its conservation efforts.

Since 2010, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has paid $35.5 million in extra sick days to thousands of employees benefiting from a unique program that the utility's executives admit is subject to abuse.

BP PLC yesterday rolled out a new advertisement in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal claiming it's a victim of trial lawyers searching for an unfair windfall.

A federal judge in Oakland ruled that veterans who were exposed to chemicals during weapons testing have a right to obtain information about potential health hazards but can't force the government to cover their private medical bills.

Halliburton Energy Services Inc. has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Department of Justice said yesterday.

Federal judges yesterday denied a request from Arch Coal Inc. to rehear a case that upheld U.S. EPA's ability to retroactively veto Clean Water Act permits.

A 320-pound green sea turtle named OD just completed a trip from a Florida Keys-based turtle hospital to Las Vegas.

Conservationists are rejoicing as officials begin to dismantle Maine's Veazie Dam.

A ground squirrel infected with the plague has led to the shutdown of part of a national forest near Los Angeles.

SANTA FE, N.M. -- Standing in front of an orange tractor under a relentless sun, Mayor David Coss (D) had a simple message for the dozen or so local officials, reporters and onlookers gathered in front of City Hall for Colorado River Day: conserve, conserve, conserve.

BODEGA BAY, Calif. -- A giant abalone so delectable it faces extinction could make a comeback, if researchers can get it in the mood.

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