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Tired of seeing Chinese-made trinkets sold at National Park Service gift shops, two New York lawmakers are pushing new legislation to ensure that only American products are sold at American parks.

A bipartisan group of senators yesterday relaunched an effort to unload the thousands of vacant and underused federal properties that cost the government an estimated $1.6 billion annually just to maintain.

U.S. EPA has sent for final White House review a rule aimed at reducing the number of fish and other aquatic organisms that are sucked into cooling-water intakes at power plants and factories.

French-owned Électricité de France SA is leaving the United States' nuclear industry because of market changes brought about by the discovery of massive deposits of natural gas.

Investment bank JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to pay $410 million for gaming the energy markets in California and the Midwest, marking the largest settlement the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has reached under the Federal Power Act.

In her first public appearance as U.S. EPA administrator, Gina McCarthy said the agency will "reinvent how we view the business of climate change" by working with the industry to boost the economy while implementing President Obama's climate change plan.

With President Obama making headlines this week on the future of the Keystone XL pipeline and its job-creating potential, industry, consumer and environmental groups are all weighing in on the accuracy of the jobs numbers. During today's OnPoint, Michael Whatley, executive vice president at the Consumer Energy Alliance, explains why he believes jobs estimates are higher than those cited by the president. He also weighs in on why job numbers among Keystone supporters and industry groups are so varied and have changed since the State Department's initial review of the project.

Anglo-French energy giant Perenco has delayed the start of oil production in a biodiverse region of the Peruvian rainforest where environmental groups claim the project could hurt the area's indigenous population.

Industry experts are questioning whether Tokyo Electric Power Co., or TEPCO, has the ability to decommission its quake-ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Connecticut lawmakers are encouraging their New York counterparts to bring forward legislation requiring genetically modified food to be labeled for consumers, betting on passage there to finalize enactment of Connecticut's new labeling law.

A series of explosions producing a 20-foot-by-20-foot fireball at a central Florida propane plant could have been triggered by equipment malfunction or human error, authorities said yesterday.

The railway involved in the fatal 72-car tanker train derailment in Quebec earlier this month lacks the funds to pay for the accumulating expenses incurred from the incident.

Ford Motor Co. today unveiled plans to offer a natural gas version of its 2014 F-150 pickup truck in a move aimed at meeting the growing demand for vehicles powered by alternative fuels and technologies.

In the ongoing trade dispute among China, the United States and Europe over solar panel imports, another region -- not involved in the conflict -- has come out on top.

Two major utility companies have reported second-quarter earnings decreases.

A Los Angeles startup is using plasma lights to make filmmaking more energy-efficient.

The lawyer who has spent nearly his entire legal career battling Chevron Corp. now finds himself in the hot seat.

A federal appeals court has upheld a U.S. EPA rule that required a large coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania to cut down on its emissions because they contribute to air pollution across the Delaware River in New Jersey.

One researcher believes she has found a naturally occurring bacterium that could root out a nonnative plant, called cheatgrass, that is invading Western landscapes.

Federal sequestration has left visitors to South Carolina's Congaree National Park subject to drought or flooding without warning after a lack of funds shut down the flow of data from water-level gauges.

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