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Vietnam is backing off plans to build its first nuclear power plant.

Lawmakers in South Carolina reconvened yesterday with a major focus on a "mega potato farm" that could end up using billions of gallons of public water every year.

A task force selected by Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber (D) reported to state lawmakers that it was closing in on a deal that could avert a possible ballot fight over a renewable energy mandate.

A fuel tank at an underground naval facility in Hawaii could be leaking, military officials said.

U.S. EPA yesterday formally cited an oil operation in Los Angeles for putting the health and safety of nearby communities at risk.

The company behind the spill that leaked a coal processing chemical into Charleston, W.Va.'s water supply, forcing hundreds of thousands of residents to go without tap water for a week, has been cited at a second chemical storage site.

As West Virginia residents continue to flush their water systems and resume use of tap water, questions continue to swirl about how much is known about the coal-cleaning chemical that leaked into the Elk River last week.

Toyota Motor Corp. plans to exceed the federal government's mandate to double fuel economy standards by 2025, a top company official said at an auto industry conference in Detroit on Tuesday.

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has selected Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff to serve as the acting undersecretary for policy at the agency.

A long-awaited electronic manifest system to track hazardous waste advanced yesterday as U.S. EPA issued a final rule authorizing the replacement of the current paper-based system.

The Department of Transportation yesterday announced a new rule to fast-track environmental reviews for highway and transit projects under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), part of an Obama administration push to cut bureaucratic red tape at federal agencies.

Barclays PLC has asked a federal judge in California to delay its requirement to pay a $488 million fine until it has had a chance to challenge the decision to issue the fine in court.

A street-by-street check detected almost 6,000 natural gas leaks in Washington, D.C.'s aging pipeline systems, researchers said in a recent study.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board yesterday shot down a proposed overhaul of California's refinery safety system, saying the plan needs further review.

Environmental groups will give U.S. EPA until Jan. 28 to agree to a new deadline for proposing a controversial cooling water intake rule for power plants and factories, but they are keeping open the possibility of taking the agency back to court.

A veteran oceanographer behind an international report on climate change is using haikus to share its findings.

The National Academy of Sciences today announced that prominent climate change scientist Richard Alley has won the prestigious Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship.