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State officials have again delayed the start of construction on California's high-speed rail line.

A Chinese automaker's plan to build an electric car plant in the Mississippi Delta has failed to materialize despite backing from political heavyweights and millions of dollars in investments.

The Department of Transportation's internal watchdog has begun a review of the country's bridges, prompted by safety concerns after one collapsed in Washington state earlier this year.

Officials in California want to improve energy storage technology to advance intermittent, alternative energy sources, like solar and wind.

Georgia's Public Service Commission will delay until 2018 a debate on who will pay for the growing costs of a nuclear power plant.

After a high-voltage power line sagged into a tree in 2003, causing a widespread East Coast blackout, a national tree-trimming campaign commenced -- but not without push-back from tree lovers.

The costly cleanup projects in two communities hit by oil spills serve as warnings of the potential dangers of transporting heavy Canadian crude by pipeline as the Obama administration comes closer to a decision on the construction of the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday sent a class-action fuel-fixing lawsuit against railroad companies back to trial court.

An unexpected drop in the number of endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle nests in the Gulf of Mexico this year has scientists worried.

Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) and actor Robert Redford are butting heads with the country's largest federally recognized American Indian tribe over the issue of horse slaughter.

Thieves are ransacking North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains National Park for ginseng roots.

A fungus that causes a lethal disease in bats was found in two Minnesota state parks, officials said last week.

The federal government has awarded $4 million to Oregon State University to study how climate change may affect the future die-offs of Western forests amid increasing droughts, insect pests and wildfires.

Arizona Reps. Paul Gosar (R) and Ann Kirkpatrick (D) next week will host what could become a contentious town hall meeting on a proposed copper mine near the town of Superior.

Former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D) says he loves his new job as chairman of the board of Stillwater Mining Co. and has acquired a larger stake in the company, which he joined after leaving office in January.

Sportsmen's groups are leaning on the Obama administration's new regulatory heavyweights to sign off on controversial guidance to clarify oversight of wetlands and other water resources, more than 18 months after it was sent to the White House for review.

The oil industry's lobbying arm today rolled out its second television ad in a summer campaign targeting the federal renewable fuel standard.

It took less than 48 hours for California's environmental advocates to start lobbying using new poll results that show residents want swift action on climate change and limits on unconventional oil drilling.

President Obama on Friday signed into law two bipartisan, bicameral bills to advance the development of small hydropower projects, marking the passage of this Congress' first significant piece of energy legislation.

Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are probing whether a former U.S. EPA staffer's intervention helped lead to calls for a pre-emptive veto of key permits for the controversial Pebble LP copper and gold mine in southwestern Alaska.

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