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While its elected officials in Washington, D.C., search for ways to avoid new restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions, Kentucky's Energy and Environment Cabinet released a white paper yesterday recommending ways the state could adapt to the forthcoming rules.

U.S. EPA tries to clarify the role of enhanced oil recovery in carbon dioxide capture projects in a final rule and draft guidance released yesterday on carbon capture and sequestration (CCS).

A law firm representing a Louisiana levee authority suing nearly 100 oil, gas and pipeline companies for damaging wetlands has amended its contract to limit how much revenue from damages can be used to cover legal expenses.

A Florida company agreed to a $1.7 million settlement with U.S. EPA over alleged mislabeling of pesticides and selling products in violation of a federal "stop sale" order.

Annual manatee deaths in Florida surpassed 800 for the first time this year, breaking the previous record of 766 deaths set in 2010.

A Canadian man was arrested yesterday in connection with illegal trafficking of narwhal tusks and alleged money laundering.

New Mexico's attorney general yesterday filed suit to stop a horse slaughter plant from opening next month in the state.

A coalition of environmental groups says a Forest Service plan to make available 1.7 million acres in two Utah national forests for oil and natural gas development fails to protect air and water quality as well as sensitive wildlife species.

President Obama today officially announced his decision to nominate Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) as the next ambassador to China.

The oil industry's top lobbying group today urged the Obama administration and Congress to explore an end to the current ban on exporting domestic crude oil, firing the starting gun on a politically volatile debate that is expected to consume the capital next year.

A congressional task force urged White House adviser John Podesta today to press for Interior Department policies that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions from energy activities on federal land.

Conservationists are raising concerns about parts of a draft proposal to update the primary U.S. fisheries management law, including provisions that would change timelines for rebuilding stocks.

The Senate last night approved by unanimous consent a bill aiming at allowing faster permitting of wells on federal lands in North Dakota's oil-rich Bakken region.

After a grueling two-week session featuring several late-night votes, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was hospitalized this morning and had to miss the upper chamber's last legislative day of the year.

Joel Beauvais grew up in rural Connecticut, spending his afternoons running through the woods and playing on the 300-acre grounds of his elementary school.

Total U.S. electricity sales continue to slide even as there has been a slow uptick in U.S. economic growth in the past five years, according to a new Energy Information Administration brief.

A federal judge yesterday said Consol Energy Inc. subsidiary Fola Coal Co. LLC was liable for discharges of the chemical element selenium from West Virginia mining operations.

Forty years ago today, the House voted overwhelmingly to pass the Endangered Species Act, which had swept through the Senate by unanimous consent the day before. The bill was enthusiastically signed by President Nixon. Now, bipartisan agreement over protections for imperiled animals and plants is all but extinct.

Opponents of a proposed highway project in Iceland say the road would disturb the "hidden folk": elves that live in the surrounding wilderness.

Australia's top environmental official is under fire for backing down from a campaign pledge to use a boat to monitor Japanese whaling in Antarctic waters.

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