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Environmental groups and industry advocates recently renewed their efforts to influence U.S. EPA's ongoing rulemaking for the disposal of power plant combustion waste, often referred to as coal ash.

As a former state and federal homeland security official, Juliette Kayyem has dealt with her share of predicaments, including being a major player on the federal government's response to the BP oil spill. Now she's applying that experience to her newest project: raising her profile as she competes for the Democratic nomination to succeed Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D).

The United States and China today endorsed using the 1987 international ozone treaty to shrink production of heat-trapping hydrofluorocarbons and persuaded other parties to join them at the Group of 20 economic summit in St. Petersburg, Russia.

President Obama's first appointee to the nation's most influential appeals court is expected to show how he views environmental disputes and U.S. EPA in his earliest cases.

U.S. EPA is set to withdraw two prominent chemical regulations, including a list of materials recommended for increased enforcement that had stalled under executive review for more than three years, according to two sources briefed by the Obama administration on the decision.

As the Office of Management and Budget reviews U.S. EPA's draft proposal on 2014 renewable fuel volumetric limits, will the agency meet it statutory deadline of Nov. 30 for a final rule? During today's OnPoint, former Congressman James Greenwood, CEO of BIO, discusses his recent meeting with EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy on the future of the renewable fuel standard and talks about the impact a change in volume targets will have on the biofuels industry.

Five more Chinese oil executives are being questioned as part of an investigation of the industry that authorities announced last week.

Texas has a pig problem with no end in sight as wild hogs are closing in on Dallas.

The polluted waters and vulnerable dike of Lake Okeechobee in South Florida pose a giant environmental problem that reaches far past the water body's banks.

A number of the gem hunters featured on the reality series "Prospectors" are violating mining laws while digging for gemstones on national TV.

Rice products have varying levels of arsenic but remain safe to eat, according to a federal study.

Dead zone-causing algae blooms will continue to plague Lake Erie until action is taken, according to a recent report from the International Joint Commission.

Cities in California's agricultural heartland like Fresno that once depended on cheap, plentiful groundwater are facing rapidly dwindling supplies.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States last week approved a controversial deal for a Chinese meat processor to acquire pork company Smithfield Foods, allowing it to move forward.

The claims administrator overseeing the multibillion-dollar settlement related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill was cleared of misconduct, but members of his staff had engaged in potentially criminal behavior, according to a report released Friday.

Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC today announced its partnership with Toshiba Corp. and Exelon Nuclear Partners on a proposed nuclear power plant in Saudi Arabia.

Even as the photovoltaic market recovers, remaining Chinese solar companies are still struggling to stay afloat.

Wind turbines should be shut down if they are generating excess electricity rather than have their energy stored with current grid-scale battery technology, according to a new study from researchers at Stanford University.

Ohio's attorney general sued the Willard & Kelsey Solar Group on Friday to recover more than $10 million in state development loans.

Advocates for government employees are suing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for withholding documents tied to a large nuclear plant in northwest South Carolina that they say is vulnerable to being swamped and crippled if a nearby dam fails.

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