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Researchers from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, are looking into ways to make dairy farms more environmentally friendly.

Despite accepting the E.U. moratorium on the use of certain pesticides linked to bee deaths, the British government says it rejects the science behind the ban.

Columbia, S.C., will spend about $750 million to overhaul its aging sewer system and another $1 million on programs to restore streams, reduce flooding and improve water quality, U.S. EPA announced today.

U.S. EPA lacks proper controls of credit trading that occurs in the renewable fuel standard, the agency's independent auditor said in a new report.

The quality of engineering and science at U.S. nuclear security laboratories is "healthy and vibrant" for now -- but crumbling facilities, overly burdensome regulations and uncertain recruitment of highly skilled computer scientists could spell future trouble for the U.S. nuclear stockpile, according to a National Research Council report released today.

Xcel Energy Inc. plans to triple the amount of large-scale solar generation in its Colorado power portfolio, according to a report it filed yesterday with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission.

Glencore Xstrata PLC told investors to expect more cost-cutting than was originally estimated in the largest mining sector takeover ever completed.

Toronto-based Energy Fuels Inc., a major U.S. uranium miner, is delaying construction of a Colorado mill -- the first conventional U.S. mill proposed in decades -- because of weak market conditions.

Renewable power generation in the United States fell during August, as various resources around the country underperformed.

The Navy's research arm announced $30 million in funding yesterday for a Hawaii program that funds clean-tech startups.

A new nontoxic compound promises to boost vehicle mileage by 5 percent and power plant efficiency up to 10 percent by converting waste heat to electricity, according to new research from the University of Houston.

Chevron Corp. yesterday said it won't seek damages from two Ecuadorians who the company claims committed fraud to win a controversial $19 billion pollution lawsuit.

A trial began yesterday over whether BP PLC intentionally exposed thousands of Texans to cancer-causing gases for weeks.

State and county prosecutors in California said yesterday that they won't charge Pacific Gas and Electric Co. for a deadly 2010 pipeline blast, allowing a three-year statute of limitations in the case to expire.

International law firm K&L Gates LLP has hired a lawyer from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to bolster its environmental and natural gas practice.

The battle over shipments to Canada's tar sands down an Idaho highway continued yesterday as a federal judge heard arguments from both sides.

The Arkansas town that is home to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. headquarters has heralded in a new tradition: the World Championship Squirrel Cook Off.

The fire that broke out over the summit of Mount Diablo in California threatened 100 homes near the city of Clayton yesterday and scorched more than 3,700 acres of dry brush and old oaks.

A woman was charged yesterday with killing her husband by pushing him off a cliff at Glacier National Park during an argument one week after they got married.

A small salamander that lives only in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico will be protected under the Endangered Species Act after the Fish and Wildlife Service today issued a final rule on the amphibian.

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