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In exchange for the right to kill eagles, a San Diego-based wind developer offered to retrofit 75 power poles to reduce eagle deaths near California's Lake San Antonio, prime winter habitat for the iconic birds.

Chinese physicians are increasingly tying lung cancer to air pollution in a shift from previous decades, when environmental issues were largely not linked to health problems.

Jeanne Conry, president of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, says there are a lot of reasons the doctors in her organization don't discuss the dangers of toxic chemicals, but the most prevalent is what she calls "the ostrich approach."

Freight congestion is causing delays and shutdowns on Amtrak's popular Chicago-to-Portland, Ore., Empire Builder route, rail officials said.

Energy giant Kinder Morgan Inc. has entered the tanker business with the purchase of two oil shipping companies.

Siemens AG will supply the turbines for the first U.S. offshore wind farm, the company announced yesterday.

Utility companies have started charging customers to connect to power lines in an attempt to offset losses from renewable energy production and a decline in U.S. power consumption.

The growth of solar power in California is causing utilities to turn to batteries to store the excess power.

A host of states and environmental, science-based and anti-nuclear groups want the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to throw out an industry-backed environmental analysis that found it's safe to store hot, radioactive waste at reactor sites across the country indefinitely.

A federal judge sentenced a California man to five years in prison for tricking people into investing thousands of dollars in fake Bakken Shale oil development.

BP PLC has launched an advertising campaign suggesting that the departure of two top officials in charge of awarding claims to victims of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill is evidence of "mounting problems" with the payment program.

Chevron Corp. yesterday asked Ecuador's highest court to cancel a $9.5 billion fine for pollution in the Amazon rainforest.

A federal appeals court today upheld a Bureau of Land Management decision to lease more than 400 million tons of coal to Cloud Peak Energy Inc., in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.

A judge yesterday ruled that an Appalachian town can move forward with its 20th annual New Year's Eve Possum Drop.

Environmentalists yesterday filed a complaint against a planned wolf and coyote derby that is supposed to take place this weekend in Idaho.

The Bureau of Land Management overestimated how many eagles could be killed by what may become the largest wind energy project in the United States, the developers of the farm said.

The Fish and Wildlife Service yesterday revised its recovery plan for the endangered black-footed ferret, emphasizing the need to work with partners on reintroducing the creature to the wild.

Increased public scrutiny, lower commodity prices and lackluster productivity are among the troubles affecting the mining industry worldwide.

Even as they close out the year with record production levels, biodiesel makers are facing an uncertain year at best in 2014.

ABOARD THE RIVERKEEPER -- My tour of the Hudson River with John Lipscomb started early on a fog-laced dock just south of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge in Catskill, N.Y. It ended late in the afternoon a few weeks later on one of the nation's most polluted waterways, Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal. In more ways than one, Lipscomb is a modern Van Winkle -- a lonely traveler, lamenting modern change in favor of better times -- though he's hardly been asleep on the job

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