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Southern California Edison's initiative to offer customers monthly bill credits when they volunteer to reduce their energy use has gained new importance with the closure of its San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.

Offshore wind farms are on the rise.

A deadly explosion at a Gulf Coast oil well in 2012 was caused by subcontractors using unsafe welding practices, according to a consultant's report.

Sixty-two countries now have policies in place to spur the use and development of biofuels, according to research and advocacy group Global Renewable Fuels Alliance.

NEW YORK -- Federal regulators will allow a nuclear reactor 35 miles north of New York City to keep operating after its license expires next month.

The Justice Department asked a federal judge to let three prosecutes withdraw from a case against a former BP engineer charged with obstructing the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill investigation.

A federal appeals court ruled against environmental regulators that filed suit against a Pennsylvania power plant.

A Kentucky steel maker will pay a $1.65 million penalty to resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations, the Department of Justice announced yesterday.

The puffin population is making its comeback on a small island off the coast of Maine.

A combination of drought, heavy rain and heat is causing mosquitoes to strike with more voracity than usual this summer.

Dozens of dead marine mammals -- seven times more than normal -- continue to wash up on beaches this summer, and scientists have yet to find an answer to the sudden die-off.

The Obama administration has proposed consistent fees for commercial film and photography on public lands as part of a broader effort to streamline and simplify regulations.

A coalition of sporting and conservation groups is urging the Bureau of Land Management to move forward with new federal rules regulating hydraulic fracturing and to ignore recent calls to exempt states that already regulate the common but controversial drilling technique.

Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) and Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) have formed the Congressional Caucus on Public-Private Partnerships to call on colleagues to support private investments to pay for large-scale infrastructure projects in their home states.

Sens. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) this week are continuing a long-running campaign to exempt farms that store oil in aboveground tanks from U.S. EPA enforcement of federal oil spill regulations.

Wyoming Republican Senate candidate Elizabeth Cheney paid a $220 bond after she was charged with lying in order to get a fishing license, a misdemeanor.

Competing polls out this week diverge over the current state of the Louisiana Senate contest, but Pelican State political observers said they don't need polls to predict that the race is going to be a close one.

A key House panel next month hopes to hear from officials across the Obama administration about their implementation of the president's plan to combat climate change.

The federal-state panel tasked with overseeing the billions of dollars expected to flow to the Gulf Coast from civil fines related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill yesterday released a final plan for how it will spend the money on restoring the region's ecosystems and economies.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's chief watchdog yesterday urged more simplicity when it took the agency to task for making certain publicly available decisionmaking documents too complicated for the public to understand.

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