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France's nuclear watchdog says fuel rod storage at the country's 58 reactors needs to be improved to prevent the chance of a Fukushima Daiichi-like disaster.

Thieves have stolen a truck in Mexico carrying radioactive material that could be used to make a "dirty bomb," the International Atomic Energy Agency said.

Canada should improve its response to large oil spills in case more crude starts flowing from Alberta to the British Columbia coast, according to a government report released yesterday.

A mining company has scaled back its work at a proposed iron mine in Wisconsin after discovering an asbestos-like rock that could pose health problems.

The New Mexico Court of Appeals signed off yesterday on a plan for the city of Albuquerque, N.M., to keep diverting drinking water from the Rio Grande.

Much of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries isn't meeting water-quality goals, according to an annual report.

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. has lowered the price of its underperforming i-MiEV electric vehicle by 21 percent to attract buyers after selling 12 models in the United States last month.

Taxpayers are on the hook for $7.4 million in electricity and heating bills at failed plug-in hybrid carmaker Fisker Automotive's manufacturing plant in Delaware, but state officials hope to recover the money in bankruptcy court.

An electric vehicle owner in Georgia has been charged with stealing power from his son's middle school.

Duke Energy Corp. has renamed a coal-burning power plant outside of Charlotte, N.C., after former CEO and outgoing Chairman Jim Rogers.

A key congressional proponent of expanded reporting requirements for extractive industries is expressing confidence that the Securities and Exchange Commission will complete rulemaking on the issue by next year.

Hitachi Ltd. has launched an energy storage system that company officials say will provide a boost to wind and solar power as they work to manage the impact of intermittent resources on the electric grid.

Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority yesterday approved lawsuits that aim to get the Army Corps of Engineers to pay for a $3 billion restoration program and for the operations and maintenance of hurricane levees.

The attorney for a former BP drilling engineer hit back against allegations that her client was trying to destroy evidence when he deleted text messages and voicemails from his phone amid the company's response to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

A Utah judge last week upheld state regulators' decision to approve a water permit for a proposed nuclear reactor in southeastern Utah, allowing the project to move forward for now over environmental groups' objections.

The Colorado Oil and Gas Association yesterday said it is suing the cities of Fort Collins and Lafayette after their residents voted to halt or ban drilling activity including hydraulic fracturing.

Picking up where the Supreme Court left off, a federal appellate court ruled yesterday that temporary government-induced flooding in Arkansas qualified as a unconstitutional taking of property because of the damage caused to trees.