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The Senate's top tax writer unveiled a radical proposal today to eliminate dozens of deductions, credits and other incentives for the energy industry and replace them with two provisions designed to promote clean electricity and transportation fuels and another credit for carbon capture and sequestration.

Last week, Mexico's Senate passed a constitutional amendment opening the Mexican energy market to foreign investment for the first time in 70 years. What is the historical significance of the move, and how could it affect world energy markets? During today's OnPoint, David Goldwyn, president of Goldwyn Global Strategies, the former special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs at the State Department, and author of a new Atlantic Council report on Mexico's energy reform, discusses challenges facing Mexico as it tries to fulfill these reforms. Goldwyn also talks about the impact of the deal on the United States.

China plans to expand its research operations in Antarctica, a state-run newspaper reported today.

European officials are investigating loan and rate guarantees that Britain is providing for its first nuclear power plant in a generation. The European Commission says the guarantees could violate the law.

Canada is considering boundary changes in 35 parks and protected areas in British Columbia to accommodate oil pipelines, new roads and other industrial infrastructure, new documents show.

The executive director of the Texas Department of Transportation stepped down Wednesday after leading the agency for more than two years.

Firefighters are making progress at a large industrial fire burning since yesterday at a Tennessee Superfund site. Hickman County Mayor Steve Gregory said this morning that the fire is 65 percent contained, and firefighters are trying to smother the blaze by covering it with dirt.

In addition to collecting donated clothes, shoes and household items, Goodwill stores in Maine have become a collection point for worn-out computers.

The owner of a second battery recycling plant outside Los Angeles was ordered to conduct a health study after a test at the site showed elevated arsenic emissions.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel today will announce regulations that put new limits on petroleum coke storage in the city.

The Toyota Prius liftback is at the top of Consumer Reports' annual value list for the second straight year.

The new Chinese-language website for Tesla Motors Inc. is somewhat lost in translation.

Greenpeace said Russia's move to jail 30 Arctic drilling protesters won't stop the group from continuing its campaign against Arctic oil drilling.

A Navajo Nation environmental group is asking the Interior Department to investigate the legality of the tribe's recent deal with BHP Billiton Ltd. to buy the Navajo coal mine.

Scientists have discovered a way to produce oil from algae in just minutes, a breakthrough that will potentially bring down the cost of generating transportation fuel from the green feedstock.

Coal-fired power plants could provide backup power for renewable energy and natural gas without extensive damage and forced outages, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory said in a study released yesterday.

Residents of an upscale seaside community on Long Island, N.Y., are pushing back against a proposed deer cull that will likely take place in the coming months.