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Federal prosecutors and a unit of BP PLC have asked a federal judge for approval of a $4 billion guilty plea agreement for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. In November…

Citgo Petroleum Corp. will no longer be a part of an $816 million trial as it looks to settle with the state of New Hampshire, according to a court filing…

More than a dozen Democratic lawmakers yesterday urged a federal court to side with the Securities and Exchange Commission in a lawsuit brought by oil and business interests over the…

A federal appeals court today decided against rehearing an environmental group challenge to U.S. EPA's decision not to regulate some mercury and other hazardous air emissions from gold mining and…

The whitebark pine, a tree that produces protein-rich seeds that grizzly bears and other animals feed on, is disappearing from the northern Rocky Mountains. Two Montana groups, the Alliance for…

The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers neglected to apply for a mandatory permit before it leveled 43 acres of wildlife habitat…

A smaller version of a new water export system for California's Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta would be less costly and more reliable than other plans on the table, a group…

The U.S. Navy's USS Guardian crashed into a protected Philippine coral reef today. No injuries have been reported. The boat struck a reef at Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park, a World…

House Republicans this week introduced a bill that would extend a pay freeze for federal workers. Sponsored by freshman Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), H.R. 273 would block a 0.5 percent…

Wind, solar and other renewable sources are expected to account for about half the new electricity capacity installed worldwide over the next several years, but lingering uncertainty around U.S. energy…

International environmental groups today released two reports detailing the likely climate costs of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline in a last-minute attempt to persuade the Obama administration not to…

National Mining Association CEO Hal Quinn admitted he was wrong. Before a packed meeting hosted by the U.S. Energy Association at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., yesterday, he…

Battle lines are being drawn in California over a legislative push to overhaul a key state environmental law. At issue is the 1970 California Environmental Quality Act's required "environmental impact…

In a move likely to draw opposition from key House Republicans, Amtrak and California transportation officials today announced plans to jointly look for high-speed train systems currently in production that…

A chemical being used by some companies as a safer alternative to the controversial plastics hardener bisphenol A (BPA) has shown the same estrogen-disrupting effects in lab tests, researchers said.…

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. -- In the wake of a bruising year-end fight over taxes and government spending, House Republicans gathered last night at a posh resort here to regroup and plan…

With months of speculation ended over whether Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will stay for President Obama's second term, the former Colorado senator must now decide which of many policy initiatives…

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. -- A scientist who has led a long crusade against development on the nation's beaches is seeing signs that political tides may have shifted in his favor in Superstorm Sandy's deadly wake.

Laos is under pressure from neighboring Vietnam and Cambodia to halt construction on a $3.5 billion hydropower dam on the Mekong River. The dam is the first of 11 that…

Following an attack by Algerian troops on hostage-takers at a natural gas facility, Statoil ASA, BP PLC and Cepsa SA yesterday began to evacuate employees and their families. Norway-based Statoil…

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