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Amid the absence of senior Republicans from yesterday's 50th anniversary commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington for civil rights, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) came in for heightened scrutiny from environmentalists for visiting the Bakken Shale oil fields of North Dakota rather than speaking at the event.

Wastewater from hydraulic fracturing caused a massive fish kill in a Kentucky creek after a gas driller neglected to design its wells following best practices, according to the U.S. Geological Survey and the Fish and Wildlife Service.

The bitter mudslinging in Virginia's gubernatorial election between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli continued this morning at a forum on energy issues in Arlington just outside of Washington, D.C.

When the conservationist John Muir was campaigning to preserve national parks more than a century ago, he likened the sound of locomotives near the Grand Canyon to "mere beetles and caterpillars."

Speaking to federal employees this week, Sen. Ben Cardin delivered his usual denunciation of across-the-board sequestration budget cuts. They're inefficient, he said, and dangerous to agency missions. He vowed to fight them. But the Maryland Democrat briefly strayed from the topic at hand to address sequestration's more established, yet overshadowed, fiscal twin: the continuing resolution.

A plan to divert groundwater near Japan's beleaguered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean has run into opposition from local fishermen, who say the pipeline project could harm the fishing industry.

A boat club is thriving on the banks of one of the nation's most polluted waterways.

A Texas natural gas processing plant will pay more than $750,000 in a settlement with U.S. EPA over Clean Air Act violations linked to flaring of waste gas.

The federal government has completed one of the last steps before its sale of Plum Island, an animal disease research facility east of New York's Long Island, is finalized, but some environmentalists and lawmakers are raising questions about the sale's impact.

The head of the Agriculture Department's research agency is retiring today after 46 years at USDA.

New proposed energy efficiency standards for commercial refrigerators and coolers could save $28 billion in energy costs and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 350 million tons over 30 years, according to the White House.

An oil well in the Eagle Ford Shale play in Texas exploded into flames this week, and the fire -- while contained -- continued to burn as of yesterday, officials said.

In a step to boost worldwide trust in nuclear energy, the United States and France yesterday called for the creation of a global nuclear liability regime to "adequately compensate" victims of nuclear accidents, according to the U.S. Energy Department.

The Energy Department yesterday announced a $16 million investment in 17 projects to develop advanced technology for tidal and wave energy generation and to understand its environmental impacts.

Two New Orleans firefighters have been charged with setting fires in a Louisiana wildlife refuge.

A federal appeals court yesterday reversed an earlier ruling that favored BP PLC in an insurance fight between the oil giant and an oil drilling company involved in the massive 2010 Gulf Coast oil spill.

New York's highest court yesterday said it will hear two lawsuits to determine whether local towns have the authority to ban the controversial oil and gas production method known as hydraulic fracturing.

A New Jersey truck broker was sentenced to more than a year in prison yesterday for conspiring to dump thousands of tons of asbestos-contaminated construction debris onto wetlands near the Mohawk River in upstate New York.

Captive-bred whooping cranes deduce how to migrate south for the winter from older birds, researchers found in a new study.

Poaching, habitat loss and resource development are threatening to devastate the world's wild elephant population, experts warned this week at an international animal rights conference in Pittsburgh.

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