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The Bureau of Land Management announced today it has agreed to re-evaluate the air quality impacts of 34 already approved oil and natural gas drilling projects across western Colorado in response to a 2011 federal lawsuit that accused the agency of ignoring the potential impacts of air pollution across the region.

Utility company Thames Water said it discovered a bus-sized, 15-ton "fatberg" -- or pile of congealed fat and waste -- under a road in the London suburb of Kingston.

A mishap at a flagship geothermal energy project in Switzerland last month has fueled doubts about the future of the industry in the nation.

The Australian mining sector has surged over the last decade, but it is experiencing a recent cool-down as Chinese hunger for energy and raw materials has depleted.

Counties across California are struggling to deal with dirty water and how to navigate a state-run project-funding system that critics say is slow to dole out money.

When Bob Martin became the head of New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection, he had never worked in government. He had spent his career as a private consultant and had dabbled in state politics.

California-based Edison International's acquisition of solar developer SoCore Energy will broaden the utility's ability to install and operate rooftop solar installations for commercial and industry consumers.

General Motors Co. is cutting the Chevrolet Volt's cost by 12.5 percent in a bid to boost its electric car sales.

Environmentalists are protesting Kinder Morgan Energy Partners' plans to refurbish two docks along the Houston Ship Channel.

Wind energy was the fastest-growing source of electricity in the United States last year, installing enough capacity to power 15 million homes, the Energy Department announced today.

BP PLC yesterday said it has uncovered new evidence of fraud that took place in a settlement program tasked with doling out payouts to businesses and residents who were victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to a filing in U.S. District Court in New Orleans.

The Interior Department's approval of offshore oil spill plans in Alaska did not violate the Clean Air Act and other environmental regulations, a federal judge in Anchorage ruled yesterday.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will decide whether the fate of the endangered whooping crane rests with a Texas agency that manages fresh water.

Chevron Corp. yesterday agreed to pay $2 million in fines and restitution for its role in a fire last summer at its Richmond, Calif., refinery that sent thousands of nearby residents to hospitals.

The federal government and Utah have separately appealed a U.S. district judge's decision last March to award a southern Utah county ownership of a dozen roads over federal lands, including four running through the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is donating $1 million to the Jane Goodall Institute to promote research and protect gorillas in Africa.

The Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed endangered species protection for the Graham's beardtongue and White River beardtongue, two rare plants found in Utah.

As drought wreaks havoc on the West, no state is suffering as much as New Mexico.

The federal government has banned the use of exploding targets in 22 million acres of forest and grassland in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming.

During an early morning stroll with activists near downtown Chicago several years ago, Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) was shocked to find dozens of dead birds at his feet.

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