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NEW ORLEANS -- Flying over southeast Louisiana, it's easy to see human fingerprints on what's left of the wetlands below.

The Bureau of Land Management should take stronger steps to ensure that methane from oil and gas development does not leak into groundwater or escape into the atmosphere, where it acts as a potent greenhouse gas, the National Park Service said in comments on BLM's draft hydraulic fracturing rule.

The Obama administration is considering reviving a stalled vehicle loan program that helped electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc., Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz told a newspaper interviewer this week.

Average global temperatures haven't increased in the past 15 years, and scientists have been working to determine why. A number of recent studies have fingered the ocean as the cause. Researchers believe heat that might otherwise warm the planet is being stored -- hidden, in a way -- in the sea.

Eighty sea turtles have washed up on the volcanic sand beaches of Guatemala's Pacific coast since the first week of July, according to a Guatemalan nonprofit conservation organization.

China's environmental watchdog agency temporarily shut down new construction projects at two of the country's largest refining companies after they missed pollution reduction targets.

A coalition of more than 100 environmental and political activist groups yesterday came out against hydraulic fracturing legislation in California and called on Gov. Jerry Brown (D) to ban the controversial oil and gas production technique altogether.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) and the head of the state's Department of Environmental Protection haven't enforced the state's environmental laws, a report issued by a group representing government workers argues.

Most environmentalists would consider a career change after being shot at by angry opponents. Not Wilma Subra.

State officials are investigating the cause of a diesel fuel spill in southeastern Massachusetts' New Bedford harbor.

A new study found that emissions from cars, trucks and other vehicles are the No. 1 cause of early deaths due to air pollution in the United States.

The Center for Biological Diversity is not happy about what it characterizes as U.S. EPA's continued negligence over the Clean Air Act, and has decided to take matters into its own hands.

Two California-based consulting firms will pay more than $3.5 million in a settlement with U.S. EPA, the Department of Justice and the California Air Resources Board after the government accused the firms of not properly certifying emissions compliance on recreational all-terrain vehicles imported from China.

HOUSTON -- This city is on track to meeting federal attainment of clean air standards within the next five years, according to a new assessment by U.S. EPA.

Toyota Motor Corp. plans to improve the mileage and efficiency of its best-selling Prius hybrid car.

Americans are racking up fewer miles behind the wheel, a trend that's likely to keep cruising downward in most states even as the economy rebounds, according to a report released this morning.

President Obama is expected to name Janet McCabe to head U.S. EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, the office tasked with the heavy lifting in enacting Obama's plan to combat climate change, sources outside of the administration said.

The Department of Energy could spend $67 million more than necessary to operate a biomass facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, thanks in part to how officials structured an energy savings performance contract, according to the agency's inspector general.

A Senate panel has requested that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission provide documents linked to its investigation of JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s manipulation of the energy commodities market.

U.S. Rare Earths Inc., one of the companies vying to develop domestic rare earth element deposits in the United States, announced yesterday that retired Army Gen. Tommy Franks would be joining its board of directors.

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