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The risk of developing cancer of the immune system could be linked to the distance a person lives from a manufacturing plant that emits the chemical benzene, researchers said in a new study.

The Agriculture Department has paid millions of dollars in crop insurance subsidies and conservation assistance to dead people over the last few years, a federal watchdog has found.

The company behind a proposed bullet train from Las Vegas to a Southern California city has hopes that its plans can move forward, despite previous rejections.

Georgia regulators said a Southern Co. subsidiary should absorb the additional costs of a nuclear power plant project that has gone over budget.

The $20 billion fund meant to cover the expenses incurred from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill will soon run out, BP PLC announced today amid accelerating compensation claims.

Complaining about traffic jams, potholes and broken-down buses will never be the same.

With its current leader on track to become the Navy's top energy official, the American Council On Renewable Energy has selected a veteran federal affairs director to serve as its interim CEO.

Eight workers were injured last night in a massive gas plant explosion in central Florida.

The view from the 10th-floor corner office may also soon power a computer and heat up a cup of coffee.

A North Carolina agency dedicated to next-generation biofuels research and development will close its doors later this year after being shut out in a state budget fight last week.

The Interior Department last night announced that a new panel will investigate the causes of a natural gas well blowout last week in the Gulf of Mexico that forced the evacuation of 44 men and fueled a fire that destroyed the rig's derrick.

A former House Energy and Commerce Committee counsel has joined Crowell & Moring LLP's expanding environment and energy practice, the firm said today.

Drakes Bay Oyster Co. cleared one of many hurdles last week in its bid to stay open, when a local judge delayed two orders from a state commission that could have effectively closed it.

In Michigan, 2 miles of recreational trails will be converted to railroad -- a move that reverses previous efforts to turn abandoned railways into trailways.

Yellowstone National Park's resurgence of wolves could be helping the park's imperiled grizzly bear population, according to a new study.

A woman was arrested yesterday on suspicion of splattering paint inside the Washington National Cathedral, and officials are looking into whether she was involved with other acts of vandalism around the city.

A Bureau of Land Management plan would allow hydraulic fracturing to take place in much of Ohio's Blue Rock State Forest.

The announcement this week that the fungus that causes bat-killing white-nose syndrome has been confirmed for the first time in Arkansas has once again prompted conservation leaders to call on public land managers to take more proactive steps to slow westward spread of the disease.

Rural landowners have plowed up millions of acres of wetlands and highly erodible land over the last four years, largely because of the high payouts associated with the federal crop insurance program, an environmental watchdog said today in a new report.

Wildland firefighters are seeing their budgets slashed at a time when climate change is lengthening fire seasons and making them more active, firefighters and forest management officials told Democratic lawmakers today at the Capitol.

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