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Federal judges today ordered U.S. EPA to more fully justify its methodology for how it set air standards for sewage sludge incinerators.

The Bureau of Land Management, Utah, Juab County and environmental groups have agreed to amicably resolve a handful of disputed road claims in remote mountains west of Salt Lake City, in a rare accord over who owns the rights of way over BLM lands in the state.

In investor reports and promotional efforts, utilities are increasingly touting their services to a lucrative growing customer base: cloud computing and data centers. There is no disagreement that data centers are a significant factor in helping increase the demand for energy. But there is a strong debate over whether fossil fuels will benefit from that demand.

The European Union is at odds with fishermen in the Faroe Islands and Iceland over fish stocks.

The leakage of highly radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is being addressed with grave attention, the Japan's nuclear watchdog said yesterday and proposed raising the rating to a "serious incident."

Mexico's state oil company, Pemex, said at least three people are dead as a result of an ammonia gas leak from its pipeline in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.

Luxury automaker Ferrari SpA is planning to build more hybrid vehicles in a bid to attract wealthy, environmentally conscious car buyers.

The Department of Energy is not adequately enforcing energy efficiency standards for appliances, according to the agency's inspector general.

Amid signs of continual struggle, Danish wind turbine maker Vestas today fired its CEO and appointed a successor.

BP PLC has launched a new ad campaign slamming trial lawyers for seeking compensation for people who weren't affected by the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Russia has blocked a Greenpeace ship from entering Arctic waters where the organization planned to protest oil exploration activities by two major energy companies.

Oil and gas development leads to economic growth and doesn't harm outdoor recreation, researchers argue in a new study funded by the American Petroleum Institute.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. used flawed documents to falsely designate two natural gas pipelines as safe, California regulators said, raising concerns over whether the utility has fixed its record-keeping problems that added to the 2010 San Bruno disaster.

Two groups ardently opposed to the controversial Rosemont copper, silver and molybdenum mine near Tucson, Ariz., have filed a lawsuit to overturn a key state permit for the project.

Cline Mining Corp. is scrapping plans for a new coal export facility in Corpus Christi, Texas, according to the port.

Hundreds of thousands of saltwater fish may be fighting to survive at the abandoned Local Ocean fish farm near Hudson, N.Y.

New York City plans to release 5,000 Asian weevils to combat the invasive mile-a-minute vine.

Unusual growing conditions caused the fruit in this year's crop of Hass avocados to be significantly smaller than usual, California farmers said.

The Navy said it would not implement the California Coastal Commission's recommendations to limit the harm that military sonar poses to marine mammals, like giant blue whales.

A proposed rule would give more protections to bluefin tuna spawning grounds in the Gulf of Mexico.

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