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West Virginia governor Earl Ray Tomblin is proposing legislation to regulate aboveground storage tanks after a chemical facility leaked 7,500 gallons of a coal-cleaning chemical into the state's Elk River and left 300,000 people without tap water.

Alaska Democratic Sen. Mark Begich's decision to come out against the proposed Pebble copper and gold mining project in the Bristol Bay watershed puts him in a unique political position in his state.

Oklahoma Rep. James Lankford (R) yesterday announced his candidacy in the special election to replace outgoing Sen. Tom Coburn (R), who said last week that he would retire at the end of this year rather than serve his full term.

The Obama administration will continue to drive U.S. climate change policy for the foreseeable future, working around a deadlocked Congress incapable of meaningful action, former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter (D) said today.

Sen. David Vitter, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's top Republican, announced plans today to run for governor of Louisiana.

The chemical company at the center of a leak that tainted the tap water of 300,000 West Virginians heads to court today in a bankruptcy case already complicated by charges of financial sleight of hand from the local water utility and affected residents.

Living with long-term drought could become the "new reality" for California, experts said after Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on Friday officially declared the state's record-shattering water shortage. Water managers, farmers and fishermen are girding themselves for water scarcities in the months ahead. Some fear not only that the drought's effects will be more pronounced than previous dry spells, but that the state might be forced to adjust to less precipitation on an ongoing basis.

Is there a path forward for the United States to address climate and energy challenges without action from Congress? During today's OnPoint, Bill Ritter, former governor of Colorado and now the director of the Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University, discusses a road map, based solely on executive agency action, that tackles the policy and economic barriers facing climate action and energy development in the United States.

Technology titan Google has agreed to buy all the electricity generated by four Swedish wind farms over the next decade.

Beijing is instituting a ban on new oil refining and some power plants to fight the city's air pollution problems.

Miami officials found soil contamination at a park for the sixth time in recent months.

Whole Foods Market Inc. will launch a new produce rating system in September that bans products grown with fertilizer made from treated municipal waste.

West Virginia officials said yesterday a second chemical had leaked at a Freedom Industries-owned chemical storage site earlier this month, potentially posing new complications for the ongoing cleanup effort.

A massive power plant engine fell off a truck yesterday in northeastern Oregon, striking a rail car loaded with crude oil.

The Department of Energy today is encouraging manufacturers of electric vehicles, advanced batteries and other advanced transportation technologies to apply for some of nearly $50 million in funding to support those efforts, Secretary Ernest Moniz announced.

Even if electric vehicles make up almost half of the U.S. passenger vehicle fleet by 2050, there would be little reduction to key air pollutants like carbon, nitrogen and sulfur dioxides, according to a new study from North Carolina State University.

An environmental watchdog group is again raising concerns with how the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration runs its tsunami warning centers, accusing the agency of a "stealth reorganization" that increases confusion.

Renewable energy generation in the United States grew 23 percent from 2009 to 2012, a new analysis shows, led by an increase in wind and solar power.

A controversial wind farm in the works in Nantucket Sound near Massachusetts faces a new legal hurdle.

The Northwest Mining Association, a key lobbying group for hardrock mining interests, has changed its name to the American Exploration and Mining Association.

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