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Much of the record $17.3 billion paid out last year through the federal crop insurance program to cover farmers' weather-related damages could have been avoided if more farmers had put in place "water smart strategies," according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.

A company that is making jet fuel for the military out of renewable materials is hoping to also prove that it can make the chemicals needed for the production of a broad array of plastic consumer goods.

Federal regulators next week will meet with the owner of a nuclear power plant in western Pennsylvania to discuss an apparent security failure at the company's plant near Pittsburgh.

Two federal agencies are fighting over investigations related to last year's Chevron Corp. refinery fire in California.

The Electric Power Research Institute has recruited a top Tennessee Valley Authority executive to lead its environmental sustainability program.

The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant -- the only one of its kind in the Green Mountain State -- will shut down by the end of next year, officials announced today.

On her first trip to Alaska as U.S. EPA administrator, Gina McCarthy emphasized the Obama administration's fight against climate change.

An internal investigation into alleged misconduct by a staffer working for BP PLC's multibillion-dollar Gulf of Mexico spill settlement fund has turned up no evidence of wrongdoing, according to the program's security chief.

A group of Arkansas residents is suing the owners of hydraulic fracturing wells for causing earthquakes in the region.

Oregon environmental group Columbia Riverkeeper yesterday filed a complaint in U.S. District Court over what it calls the Army Corps of Engineers' illegal refusal to turn over key documents regarding a controversial coal export proposal.

A federal judge ruled late last week that Alpha Natural Resources Inc. is liable for discharges of a key coal-mining pollutant into West Virginia waterways.

An environmental lab owner from Mississippi was sentenced to more than three years in prison yesterday for faking testing results and lying to investigators, the Department of Justice said.

The citrus industry is looking to a species of tiny killer wasps that could thwart the spread of the Asian citrus psyllid, a jumping louse that can spread disease to trees.

Scientists are hoping that a growing group of natural predators may help fight an invasive pest that is threatening to wipe out the nation's ash trees.

Sand dunes and beaches on Fire Island, N.Y., lost more than half of their volume after Superstorm Sandy, leaving one of Long Island's most popular beaches vulnerable to future storms, according to a new report from the U.S. Geological Survey.

An environmental group and the federal government yesterday settled two lawsuits over the handling of Mexican wolves that wolf advocates say will boost recovery efforts.

An intergovernmental panel tasked with spending fines linked to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is expected to approve an initial plan tomorrow for doling out cash for restoration efforts, with questions still unanswered about how projects will be selected for funding.

While Alaska is set to host one of most contested Senate races this cycle -- likely drawing millions in third-party spending and saturating the state's airwaves with advertisements -- a series of ballot initiatives on energy and the environment could potentially muddle debate in the Senate race.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell this week will spend a night camping in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an area teeming with caribou, polar bears and waterfowl but also coveted by the oil and gas industry.

NEW YORK -- Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz used his first major policy address here yesterday to defend the president's "all of the above" energy strategy.

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