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The U.S. wind industry surged to multiple records last year, despite efforts to slash development funding and federal incentives, according to a report today from the American Wind Energy Association.

The departure of President Trump's top energy adviser raises questions about the fate of the administration's policy agenda.

SEATTLE — Washington state tomorrow will face off against the U.S. government and tribes as it attempts to overturn a court injunction forcing it to repair hundreds of culverts that are blocking salmon from reaching upstream habitat.

A major international surfing event in Australia was shut down early after two nearby surfers, who were not in the competition, were attacked by sharks.

After a two-year pause, authorities in Iceland have set a target number for this year's whaling season, allowing hunters to kill 191 endangered fin whales.

Driven by high winds, tumbleweeds Monday infiltrated a high desert community about an hour from Los Angeles.

Locals in the island city of Brigantine, N.J., have started a petition to stop the state from killing red foxes to protect endangered shorebird populations.

Two California state bills addressing wildfires started by power lines advanced in the state Senate yesterday, but one will undergo significant changes after it worried consumer groups and solar power advocates.

Minnesota lawmakers are eyeing a bill to crack down on pipeline protests, but activists say they won't let it pass without a fight.

The California High-Speed Rail Authority vastly underestimated the cost of relocating utility lines beneath Fresno to make way for a 29-mile segment of railway, according to projections released yesterday.

British chain Costa Coffee said today that it plans to recycle 500 million coffee cups by 2020 and become the first chain to recycle the same number of cups as it releases.

Appalachian groups joined a recent chorus of calls for eliminating controversial ways that coal companies ensure their mines will eventually be cleaned up.

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey (R) formally asked EPA today to clarify regulations the Republican Senate candidate believes hurt steel manufacturing.

An islandwide power outage has yet again put Puerto Rico in the dark.

The Department of Energy will spend $105.5 million on 70 solar energy projects, with an emphasis on pushing solar technology forward and integrating solar power into the grid, the agency said yesterday.

The good news in the American Lung Association's latest annual survey of air quality trends: Levels of dangerous fine particulates generally continued to decline in recent years. The bad news comes attached to a warning note about the impacts of climate, both physical and political.

A U.S. district court judge found that PPG Industries Inc. is on the hook for decades of pollution from its former glass dump site in Pennsylvania.

A federal judge has dismissed lawsuits filed by two communities against Volkswagen AG over excess emissions.

Former Massey Energy Co. CEO Don Blankenship wants his misdemeanor conviction tossed, claiming that key documents were withheld from his attorneys before his trial.

Nearly eight months after Hurricane Harvey, Houston's population of Mexican free-tailed bats is bouncing back.

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