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Some say environmentalist Linda Sheehan went through a midlife crisis.

With White House officials fanning out around the country this week to promote President Obama's Climate Action Plan, a highly symbolic effort is also underway at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C.

A former U.S. EPA scientist said he tried to persuade superiors into intervening in the proposed Pebble LP copper, gold and molybdenum mine in southwestern Alaska.

U.S. EPA leaders may have used personal email accounts to "skirt disclosure" under the Freedom of Information Act, according to a federal judge who ruled yesterday that the agency must submit to questioning on its use of nongovernment email accounts.

Two workers at the earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were found contaminated with radioactive particles, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said in a statement.

The Philippine province of Cebu today declared a state of calamity after a fatal ferry accident leaked lube oil and diesel fuel into the ocean.

Thousands of gallons of former military chemicals in aging containers sit inside trailers, in box trucks and along the ground at a West Melbourne, Fla., site after the federal government fenced them in more than a year ago.

A recent study has linked exposure to the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, with an increased risk of developing asthma.

The scope of the Bonneville Power Administration's human resources scandal is larger than originally reported and will take much longer to fix, according to a new audit of the Portland, Ore.-based power marketing agency.

The North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources has filed two more lawsuits accusing Duke Energy Corp. of having illegal pollution seep from its coal ash dumps.

Energy efficiency will be a focus of Exxon Mobil Corp.'s new 385-acre Houston-area campus, according to the latest edition of its corporate publication, the Lamp.

One company says it may have solved the trash-to-gas conundrum.

The shuttering of an uranium-enrichment plant in Kentucky has taken its toll on the lives of workers who expected to work there until retirement.

The Interior Department today announced it has fined a Utah oil and gas company $2.2 million for knowingly maintaining false and misleading royalty information.

Haunted by the gas station lines that snaked through East Coast communities after last fall's Superstorm Sandy, some states are mulling laws that would ensure that service stations are prepared for future disasters.

Chinese investments in hydroelectricity have sparked a $6 billion boom in the energy source over the last five years in nearby Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.

The National Wildlife Federation and leaders of several dozen fisheries are petitioning the Army Corps of Engineers to boost its scrutiny of proposed coal export facilities along the Pacific Northwest.

A dispute among experts over the extent of the Deepwater Horizon disaster is heating up as BP PLC prepares for the next stage of a civil trial to determine the final cost of the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.

U.S. EPA is suing the largest power generator in Texas over air pollution standards at two coal-fired power plants.

The Department of Transportation last week asked federal judges to reconsider a ruling that invalidated a law allowing Amtrak to negotiate regulations on equal footing with the federal agency.

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