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BMW AG's move to purchase only green electricity by 2020 has the company diversifying its power sources, even tapping a biomass plant in South Africa that uses chicken droppings and cow dung.

The Arkema Inc. plant that burned tons of toxic chemicals during Hurricane Harvey flooding misjudged the potential for storm damage and neglected to protect backup power from floodwaters, according to internal documents obtained by the Houston Chronicle.

Seven months ago, U.S. Steel released toxic metal into a Lake Michigan tributary. Newly revealed documents show the company quietly reported another spill to the state of Indiana last month and asked regulators to keep it "confidential."

Apple Inc. has been a leader in making sure the cobalt in its phones, computers and electronics is not mined using child labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but Microsoft Corp. is trailing, Amnesty International said in a report today.

U.S. EPA's internal watchdog said today the agency too often relies on high-risk contracts.

The Department of Energy reported yesterday that a collapsed tunnel at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation site in Spokane, Wash., has been stabilized.

Michigan officials say the oil transportation giant Enbridge Inc. has revealed dozens more gaps in the protective outer coating of an underwater oil pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac.

Kentucky utility LG&E and KU Energy announced yesterday it will close two coal-fired units. The company cited environmental regulations and efficient LED lights as factors.

Monsanto Co. and farm groups sued California today to prevent the state from requiring products containing glyphosate to have cancer warnings on the label.

North Carolina has asked the Supreme Court to weigh a lower court finding that the state doesn't own 45 miles of riverbed where a power company has built and operated four hydroelectric dams.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will propose cutting Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by about half, according to an aide to Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah).

A federal judge yesterday sentenced an Irish national to 18 months in prison for trafficking what government officials said was a cup carved from the horn of an endangered rhinoceros.

Elephants legally killed in Zimbabwe and Zambia between 2016 and 2018 now can be imported into the United States, under a new Fish and Wildlife Service ruling that pleases hunters but could alarm some wildlife conservation advocates.

LAS VEGAS — The jurors who will determine the fate of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy received their first taste of the trial yesterday, as attorneys in the case offered starkly different characterizations of the 71-year-old, who has long sparred with the federal government.

Famed primatologist Jane Goodall sent a letter yesterday to all U.S. senators asking them to oppose Republican efforts to open up Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling.

After a request from the chemical industry, the Trump administration is asking for two extra years to decide whether a group of pesticides hurts endangered species.

Gavin Clarkson, a senior Bureau of Indian Affairs official, resigned Monday after the Interior Department inspector general issued a damning report on a loan program he ran.

The House Science, Space and Technology Committee advanced by voice vote today several bipartisan bills aimed at boosting advanced nuclear power and research projects at the Department of Energy.

A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee today advanced a package of bills aimed at changing current air quality standards for a handful of industries.

ATLANTA — Gerry Cauley, the CEO of the North American Electric Reliability Corp., allegedly grabbed his wife and pushed her into a bathtub Friday night after she caught him having an online sexual encounter with a "young female employee of his," according to a police report released to E&E News this morning.

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