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California is poised to miss a self-imposed deadline for releasing environmental documents related to a plan to build a massive water tunnel system in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

California will get an early warning system alerting people and businesses to earthquakes, if the state can figure out how to pay for it.

Leading consumer products company Unilever will purchase large amounts of oil generated from algae from Solazyme Inc.

U.S. EPA this week continued its long push to evaluate the risk posed by controversial flame retardants with a new draft report detailing alternatives.

A Canadian oil sands company must drain a lake in Alberta for contamination cleanup.

While the majority of decisionmakers in federal agencies cite the importance of energy efficiency, more than a third said a lack of funding creates barriers to adoption, according to a new survey sponsored by the Alliance to Save Energy and energy management company Schneider Electric.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has recommended a "phased approach" to treating radioactive waste at the nation's largest nuclear waste site in an attempt to gain control over a project that is years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget.

Researchers at the startup TerraPower, led by Bill Gates and fellow Microsoft Corp. billionaire Nathan Myhrvold, are developing a reactor that would be fueled by nuclear waste.

A 190-square-mile tract of land in Texas' South Plains could be the site of what would be the nation's largest wind farm.

Oil and gas giant ConocoPhillips has piloted the first commercial drone flight in U.S.-controlled airspace.

The Bonneville Power Administration's proposal to run power lines near a sacred American Indian site would be akin to building them in a cathedral, archaeologists said.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory is partnering with energy industry insurer Energi to help clarify some of the risks energy savings performance contract projects face.

U.S. EPA yesterday finalized a rule expanding the definition of heating oil, a move that will allow more renewable fuels to be eligible for credit under the federal biofuel mandate.

The University of California, Davis, will lead a group of schools in developing strategies to reduce the impact that climate change has on the transportation system nationwide through a grant from the Department of Transportation and regional transportation agencies.

It was a "genius" move to use idle data from experimental farms and meteorological records to reveal that corn is not quite so hardy in the heat and drought in Africa as previously thought.

The airline industry and environmentalists hope that talks currently underway in Montreal will lay the groundwork for a global market-based mechanism to limit the industry's future contribution to climate change.

Wild pigs are roaming a suburban Atlanta neighborhood.

A black bear walked into an Alaskan bar Monday night.

A total of 20 cubs were born to pandas from a Chinese research base during July and August, a feat so rare that it has the animal-management world buzzing.

The millionth salmon to migrate upstream in the Columbia River this year did so yesterday as a record run in the region continues.

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