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Farmers from California's Central Valley yesterday won a court-ordered delay of at least three days of the federal government's release of water into the Klamath River meant to protect spawning salmon.

Florida's tourism agency has partnered with Google to map its coasts in the first-ever large-scale beach mapping project by the Internet giant.

One of two plants that received approval to start slaughtering horses this year is abandoning its plans amid an ongoing lawsuit.

Arizona Sen. John McCain yesterday said hunters need an "adequate and affordable" supply of nonlead bullets to help prevent lead poisoning in federally endangered California condors.

The Obama administration has formally established a solar and geothermal power development area on a 64,000-acre strip of public and private land in Southern California that if built out to full capacity has the potential to produce enough electricity to power more than 1 million homes.

In promoting President Obama's new Climate Action Plan during an event in Rhode Island this morning, White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairwoman Nancy Sutley warned that carbon emissions are as much a public health issue as an environmental one.

Environmental groups, particularly those actively opposed to leases of federal coal to private companies for mining, are questioning the Obama administration's commitment to tackling climate change.

As their American brethren target Secretary of State John Kerry in a bid to scuttle the long-running environmental review of Keystone XL, a group of Canadian environmentalists and academics today implored his boss to reject the massive oil sands crude pipeline as unacceptable given the White House's second-term commitment to global climate change.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D) boasts a substantial list of accomplishments in his efforts to green the Brick City -- renovating city parks and promoting sustainability -- but state environmentalists say if Booker wins the state's open Senate seat in an October special election, he might find success doesn't come as easily at the federal level.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) has retained nearly a dozen Democratic staff members who worked for him at the House Natural Resources Committee, a sign that he intends to continue his laser focus on energy and environmental issues in the upper chamber, but that has also left significant holes on the House panel's minority staff.

A chief of staff at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory received more than $500,000 more in wages than was justified because of poor wage-comparison practices, according to an Energy Department inspector general report released today.

While U.S. EPA is believed to have offered two separate standards for new power plants fired by coal and natural gas in the carbon dioxide proposal sent to the White House, sources tracking the issue say the rule for coal plants will likely require carbon capture and storage.

Coast Guard Vice Adm. Brian Salerno is set to join the Interior Department to lead the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.

Former U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson appears to have used her personal email address for official business in a potential violation of federal record-keeping rules.

A plastics and chemicals plant that was cited for air pollution in a southwestern Ohio village will receive more than $1 million from the village because the company paid too much in taxes, officials said.

Chemicals found in waters affected by mountaintop-removal coal mining sites are distinct from those found upstream, Duke University researchers say in a new study.

Hackers have obtained the personal information of 14,000 current and former employees of the Energy Department, the agency said in a staff memo this week.

Warren Buffett has accumulated a 17.8-million-share stake in Canada's largest oil and gas producer, according to a U.S. regulatory filing.

One jolt of electricity to a window can now light, heat or cool a building because of a new material created by researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

U.S. EPA yesterday announced it would revise its fuel economy labeling regulations after it found that Ford Motor Co. had inflated the fuel efficiency performance claim for its 2013 C-Max vehicles.

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