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Scotland's electric utility has abandoned a proposed offshore wind farm, citing unstable ground and wave conditions, as well as protected sharks in the area.

A gas explosion today trapped 22 workers underground at a coal mine in China.

Officials are searching for a new general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, the Las Vegas Valley's wholesale water supplier and the area's largest utility.

Prosecutors have postponed until next year a decision on filing charges against two former Boy Scout leaders who posted an online video of themselves earlier this year toppling a boulder in Utah's Goblin Valley State Park.

A paint ingredient developed at Dow Chemical Co. laboratories near Philadelphia will significantly cut water and energy consumption in the industry and allow homeowners to better cover walls and hide stains, the company said.

The operator of an Illinois coal plant said it would address a lawsuit filed by an environmental group claiming the company is allowing its ash ponds to contaminate groundwater.

NASA scientists say the ozone hole in the atmosphere has stopped growing but will not fully recover until around 2070, according to new research.

The Department of Energy will remove almost all of the highly radioactive waste tanks stored underground at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and convert the waste into glass-like material, according to a decision to be published today.

The Energy Department plans to unveil early next year actions and funding to boost partnerships between the private sector and the national labs to "dramatically increase" the commercial impact of the work of federal scientists, the head of DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy said yesterday.

Canada plans to place crude oil on a list of highly dangerous substances in the wake of a deadly oil train accident last summer in Quebec.

The Agriculture Department today said it would fund more than $1.8 billion in electricity infrastructure improvements for projects in 25 states and one territory.

The Obama administration yesterday announced that Oregon-based NuScale Power LLC had secured millions of dollars in federal funds to develop small modular reactors and firm up another low-carbon power source, a move skeptics immediately called a costly mistake.

Three Chinese nationals in two separate cases have been accused of trying to steal seed technology under development in the United States, according to officials.

A judge ruled that Andarko Petroleum Corp. and its Kerr-McGee Corp. subsidiary acted improperly in a 2005 spinoff and are liable in a massive pollution case that could see damages as high as $14 billion for environmental cleanup and health claims.

A Montana woman yesterday pleaded guilty to killing her husband by pushing him off a cliff in Glacier National Park during an argument eight days after the couple's wedding.

Federal judges appeared reluctant today to back a challenge from the makers of nonroad engines to U.S. EPA's air regulations.

Prosecutors don't want a federal judge to take it too easy on admitted felon John Beale.

Many Maryland Christmas tree growers are aging as the number of farms shrink and farmers wait all year to make the bulk of their sales.

The Animal Planet TV reality series "Whale Wars" returns today as the controversial head of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and star of the show, Paul Watson, bows out of the group.

China has instituted its first-ever ban on shellfish hailing from the West Coast of the United States.

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