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Iowa has agreed to make several changes to its Clean Water Act permitting program for concentrated animal feeding operations under an agreement with U.S. EPA.

Electric carmaker Tesla Motors Inc. is opening six stores in Germany in the next few months, posing a threat to the country's strong domestic car market.

Used car buyers who are concerned with pollution now have a way to track vehicle mileage and emissions.

People in Minneapolis looking for some happiness could pack their things and move closer to the city's Hiawatha light rail line.

U.S. EPA has addressed five of the eight recommendations made by the Government Accountability Office in 2010 for boosting protection of children's health, GAO said in a report released yesterday.

Firefighters are facing an unconventional foe: rooftop solar panels.

Utilities are increasingly showing interest in hydroelectric power amid government incentives for renewable energy.

Chevron Corp. will pay $5.2 million to settle claims that the energy company wrongfully applied for compensation from an environmental cleanup fund, according to New Mexico officials.

The owner of a biofuels firm who pleaded guilty to charges related to selling tens of millions of dollars in fake renewable fuel credits is petitioning for a new attorney for his appeal.

An Alabama pest control company was charged today with unlawfully applying pesticides in Georgia nursing homes, the Department of Justice said.

Federal judges yesterday dismissed a challenge from conservationists to the Interior Department's diversion of water from a Washington state waterway to a fish hatchery.

When a band of hunters illegally shot four moose near the tiny town of Hudson, Wyo., last year, they left the animals to die in a field and assumed no one would notice.

Sea ice decline has not negatively affected the Chukchi Sea population of polar bears, according to a federal study.

Torrential rains flooded parts of Colorado, resulting in at least two deaths and washing away homes as officials worked today to evacuate towns and keep people out of the rising water.

The Bureau of Land Management wants to be prepared if U.S. horse slaughterhouses open for business, a key BLM staffer said.

The California Energy Commission this week released a report that questions whether the proposed 500-megawatt Palen Solar Electric Generating System can be built and operated without harming eagles and permanently affecting visual resources in Southern California's Chuckwalla Valley.

Just a week after U.S. EPA withdrew a rule that would have designated bisphenol A, or BPA, as a chemical of concern, the Breast Cancer Fund is raising new concerns about the risks the plastic additive poses during the prenatal period.

A key House appropriator doused cold water this morning on the idea that the spending panel would finish marking up legislation to fund the Interior Department and U.S. EPA, at least not anytime soon.

The Department of Energy's investment of $603 million in efforts to spur commercial-scale integrated biorefineries has failed to hit the mark, so the program won't produce 100 million gallons of advanced biofuels by 2014 and is at risk of more wasteful spending, DOE's inspector general said in a report released today.

As stakeholders dig into the details of the water resources bill filed in the House yesterday, cheers and jeers are emerging, although the overwhelming mood is one of simple relief that the process is moving forward.

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