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Environmentalists are concerned that the Nevada utility NV Energy won't follow through on its promise to shut down its coal-fired power plants on the tight schedule it had agreed to.

China, India and other Asian countries intend to increase nuclear power, even as safety worries continue following the Fukushima Daiichi incident.

A magnitude-5.3 earthquake hit the Japanese district where the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is located early this morning.

Algae-derived fuels release significantly lower emissions than petroleum-based fuel and are on par with or better than other types of biofuels, including corn ethanol, according to a study released yesterday.

A federal judge has accepted Halliburton Co.'s guilty plea, entered yesterday, to federal charges of destroying evidence after the 2010 rig explosion and massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Four states have sued U.S. EPA for failing to determine whether they're meeting new sulfur dioxide air limits.

Facing a community uproar over diesel pollution, Norfolk Southern reached an agreement with Chicago yesterday for reducing emissions at its Englewood rail yard on the city's South Side.

Researchers are using cannons on a Cape Cod beach to help them better understand a species of endangered bird.

Researchers say they have discovered a new rat species living in an area of Indonesia considered to be the birthplace of evolution.

The National Marine Fisheries Service has announced it will start a review to determine whether the Alabama shad is a fish species that should be declared threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act.

A rare butterfly found only in the mountains west of Las Vegas was approved yesterday for endangered species protections.

Researchers have found that intensive pesticide use in Costa Rica's banana plantations could be linked to health problems for the spectacled caiman, a crocodilian reptile in the Tortuguero Conservation Area.

Federal regulators announced today that they will delay issuing final Endangered Species Act listing decisions for 68 coral species for six months in order to resolve conflicting information.

The Bureau of Land Management is nearing approval of another large-scale solar power project in southern Nevada near the site of the first commercial-scale solar project placed into operation on federal lands.

A 12-year-old Coloradan briefed House staffers this week and met with members of Congress as a part of his international speaking tour to encourage restaurants and schools to stop using plastic straws.

President Obama yesterday nominated the Department of Transportation's acting general counsel to permanently fill that role.

In the fourth major biodiesel fraud case to come to light in the past two years, the federal government this week charged six individuals and three companies with carrying out a tax and securities scheme that cost investors and taxpayers $100 million.

Ten pro-coal House Republicans, led by Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R), introduced legislation yesterday to block U.S. EPA regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

The campaign arm for Senate Republicans wasted no time today criticizing Democratic lawmakers and candidates in seven states over U.S. EPA's new proposals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from new coal plants.

The House today passed a sweeping package of bills to revive logging on federal forests, reduce catastrophic wildfires and bolster rural economies.

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