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Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber (D) last week hauled in $85,000 from six timber companies for his re-election campaign.

The billionaire activist Tom Steyer has launched a campaign to raise oil taxes in California.

Children's clothes made in China may contain toxic chemicals, a study by Greenpeace found.

A judge has ordered paint companies to pay $1.1 billion to 10 cities and counties to remove lead-based paint from millions of older homes across California.

Several dozen conservation, tribal, business and pro-recreation groups are petitioning U.S. EPA to conduct a "cumulative effects assessment" of current and potential mining in the Lake Superior Basin.

Builders are ditching traditional subdivisions with golf courses and swimming pools in favor of new housing developments offering a very different kind of amenity: community farms.

British lender Barclays has petitioned a U.S. judge to halt the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from collecting $488 million amid allegations that the bank manipulated the U.S. energy market.

Nevada's Public Utilities Commission has approved a deal for a company controlled by billionaire Warren Buffett to buy the state's biggest electric utility.

USEC Inc., the only U.S.-owned uranium enrichment company, announced yesterday it will file for bankruptcy protection early next year, marking another round of bad news for the ailing quasi-private company.

A study by trade organization RenewableUK found few wind farms in the United Kingdom emit a low-frequency thumping sound often cited by opponents.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board yesterday proposed dramatic changes in oil refinery regulation in response to a huge fire last year at Chevron Corp.'s Richmond, Calif., refinery that the agency said highlighted weaknesses in existing safety regulations.

Massachusetts' Cape Wind project has begun construction, meeting a key deadline to receive a government tax credit worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the project's turbine supplier.

Nearly 80,000 acres have been proposed for offshore wind energy development in Maryland, a proposal big enough to power 300,000 homes, the Obama and O'Malley administrations announced today.

In an attempt to stop a wetlands damages legal challenge filed earlier this year, the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association last week sued the state attorney general.

Industry groups this week backed Arch Coal Inc.'s request for the Supreme Court to review a case involving U.S. EPA's retroactive veto of a strip coal-mining project in West Virginia.

Conservationists today urged a federal judge to overturn the Fish and Wildlife Service's decision last year to remove federal Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf in Wyoming.

Coyotes have made homes for themselves in one of the busiest parts in the Bay Area.

A new study says an area of hot molten rock beneath Yellowstone National Park is about 55 miles long, or 2.5 times larger than previously thought.

The Interior Department next year will likely initiate a new rulemaking to prevent or minimize the impacts of oil and gas development on national wildlife refuges.

The National Marine Fisheries Service approved a five-year Navy plan yesterday for training exercises off the coasts of Hawaii and Southern California, but environmentalists immediately sued to block the activities over threats to marine mammals.

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