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Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's labeling of climate change as a "fraud" has made the California Republican a prime target for environmental and advocacy groups planning to hold rallies today at the district offices of lawmakers who question climate science.

Twenty state attorneys general, all but one of them Republican, endorsed Keystone XL in a petition released late yesterday amid continued uncertainty over the Obama administration's time frame for finishing its review of the controversial oil sands crude pipeline.

The Interior Department has cleared the way for issuance of the nation's first lease to turn powerful ocean currents into electricity.

A federal appeals court today ordered the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to continue its review of the Energy Department's application to build a nuclear waste repository under Yucca Mountain, Nev., despite the Obama administration's desire to abandon the proposal.

New rules from the European Union could make it easier to fund new nuclear power projects with taxpayer dollars.

The operator of the ill-fated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will attempt to remove 400 tons of spent fuel rods from a reactor building in a complex, large-scale operation that has never been tried before.

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing yesterday ordered the removal of petroleum coke piles along the Detroit River and gave the company storing the material a two-week deadline to finish the job.

A top manufacturer of electric car chargers is struggling to avoid bankruptcy despite receiving more than $100 million in federal funding.

Amtrak's popularity continues to surge as officials announced today that the railroad set an all-time ridership record for a single month in July, a milestone consistent with recent ridership trends.

When it comes to small-business contracting, the Energy Department lags behinds the rest of the federal government.

To satisfy the Forest Service's obligations under the spending cuts known as sequestration, the agency is once again asking that Western governors return funds they received earlier this year.

Xcel Energy Inc. yesterday announced plans to purchase another wind farm currently under development in North Dakota, making it the fourth wind power project the utility has bought within the past month.

Officials could delay the slated shutdowns of two southwestern Pennsylvania coal-fired power plants amid grid reliability concerns.

Southern Californians should have a say in decisions about what happens at a shuttered San Diego County nuclear plant and who will pay to clean it up, the chairman of a state Senate committee said yesterday.

ConocoPhillips Co. has asked the Bureau of Land Management to approve a second oil and gas production site in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, a project that could generate hundreds of jobs in the largely undeveloped area.

A federal appeals court today effectively blocked Vermont's attempts to shut down a nuclear plant in the state.

A prominent biologist received three years' probation and a $7,500 fine after pleading guilty to a count of unlawful taking of a golden eagle.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) is criticizing Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) for his state's Supreme Court lawsuit announced yesterday seeking to curtail water consumption in booming metro Atlanta in order to protect downstream flows.

Officials yesterday released beavers, which were rescued in March after a Chevron Pipe Line Co. pipe burst east of Utah's Willard Bay Reservoir, into a new habitat.

The Fish and Wildlife Service has given federal endangered species protections to the Gierisch mallow, a perennial herb native to Utah.

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