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The University of California, Davis, yesterday said it plans to open a new institute -- and establish an undergraduate major -- focused on marine sciences.

The Forest Service has pushed back its release of a plan to manage the George Washington National Forest.

Rangers at Grand Teton National Park used their Tasers on two people within 48 hours last week, including a seasonal employee who got drunk and allegedly threatened to set off bombs.

The National Park Service has issued a final management plan for snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park that offers operators more flexibility on how to limit noise and pollution in the park.

Beetles living in cow pies can lower the cattle industry's potential emissions of a potent greenhouse gas but could possibly raise another, according to a study published this month by researchers from Finland.

A Colorado lawmaker said he did not receive preferential treatment from state regulators who fined a hydraulic fracturing operation near his farm.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration this week sent the White House Office of Management and Budget final rules for addressing black lung disease in miners.

A national union representing most of the nation's federal wildland firefighters is demanding that Congress provide emergency supplemental funding to fight wildfires and to restore sequestration cuts that arbitrarily removed about 500 firefighters from the ground this season.

The State Department's inspector general said today that it would extend until 2014 an inquiry into the choice of the private contractor that gave a positive environmental review to Keystone XL this spring, a move that casts doubt on whether the in-limbo oil sands crude pipeline can receive a final ruling this year.

California is proposing a standard for chromium-6 in drinking water 12 years after the movie "Erin Brockovich" spurred lawmakers to order that a limit be set.

The Forest Service will withhold funding for forest restoration projects to satisfy the 5 percent cuts mandated under the federal sequester, a move that is unlikely to sit well with Western states.

The Department of Energy didn't join U.S. EPA and the Interior Department in writing public comments on the review of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, according to a DOE spokeswoman.

What a difference a non-election year can make. Early last August, as House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R) was fending off a primary challenge from the right, you probably wouldn't have found him touting his efforts at bipartisanship back home in his southwest Michigan district. But yesterday, Upton penned a piece for his local newspaper highlighting his work on a hydropower bill supported by congressional Democrats that streamlines the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's process for permitting all projects that use existing canals, pipelines or other water conduits.

The Japanese government will wrest control of disaster recovery at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from its operator, officials announced today.

Environmental groups claim that the Thai government is downplaying the effects of a massive oil spill in order to protect the country's tourism industry.

The State Building and Construction Trades Council of California is attempting to gain control of thousands of union jobs at the state's 13 refineries, according to oil companies and the United Steelworkers union.

Dunkin' Donuts this week will begin testing a double-walled paper cup at five locations in Massachusetts after beginning initial experiments on a foam-free container in 2011.

The areas near major Southern California traffic corridors soon will be monitored for air pollution levels.

A Utah oil company has agreed to a settlement of more than $18 million with U.S. EPA and the Department of Justice over a series of Clean Air Act violations at a refinery in North Salt Lake.

Glacier National Park's longtime concessions partner has lost the bid for a new concessions contract.

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