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Last month, for the first time in more than 2½ years, the Department of Energy announced a solicitation making up to $8 billion in loan guarantee authority available to advanced fossil energy projects. What steps is the Loan Programs Office taking to prevent project failures? During today's OnPoint, Peter Davidson, the office's executive director, discusses the types of projects the agency is looking to support under the new solicitation and explains how his office will ensure success in this new round of funding. He also explains how the office's work is affected by criticism and scrutiny of previous loan project failures.

Hong Kong officials plan to burn 95 percent of one of Asia's major stockpiles of ivory.

Twelve Greenpeace activists climbed the Mumbai, India, headquarters of Essar Group on Tuesday to unfurl a large banner that blasts a coal mining project proposed by billionaire brothers Shashikant and Ravikant Ruia.

Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality proposed adding 216 miles of the Rogue River to a list of bodies of water with high levels of mercury in fish that live there after studies found the Rogue and its tributaries had levels more than 10 times higher than the state's water-quality standards for toxic pollutants.

A Williams Partners LP subsidiary is challenging a fine federal investigators imposed after an explosion last year at a chemical plant the company owns killed two workers and injured 114 others.

Health care expenses brought on by exposure to bisphenol A, or BPA, cost billions of dollars per year -- but using alternative chemicals that raise the price of food and beverages may not cost that much more to implement while reducing those costs, according to a new study that its author says is the first to attempt such a tally.

The Tesla Model S electric sedan will cost $121,000 in China, the automaker announced today.

The Northern Arapaho Tribe is asking U.S. EPA to nix Wyoming's petition to reconsider an agency decision to leave 1 million acres of land around Riverton under Indian Country domain.

The Bureau of Land Management's Colorado office is undergoing another round of leadership changes, with no word on when a permanent director will be appointed to lead a state office that manages 8.4 million acres of public land and almost 29 million acres of subsurface mineral estate.

The nation's largest biodiesel maker is jumping into the renewable chemical business.

More railroads will soon deploy a new generation of locomotives that burn natural gas instead of diesel fuel, which could cut their fuel costs, reduce air pollution and encourage the shipping of fewer items by trucks.

First Solar yesterday said it would build a 22-megawatt solar farm in West Texas, a rare success story for the state's renewable energy industry.

Cuba's government announced a new initiative to drill its deepest oil wells yet, even as industry experts say the country has little chance of attracting investments from multinational oil companies that face fewer restrictions in doing business elsewhere.

A biodiesel plant in north Mississippi remained burning yesterday after two explosions, but no injuries were reported.

The South Carolina Supreme Court nixed a lawsuit in which residents argued that a Carnival Cruise Lines ship docked in Charleston Harbor caused a nuisance.

Attorneys for an ex-BP PLC engineer who was convicted of interfering with an investigation into the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill are petitioning to disqualify the federal judge who presided over the trial.

An upstate New York property owner and his employee pleaded guilty earlier this week to illegally disposing of asbestos.

Developers are looking to build a highway that cuts through Texas' Katy Prairie, a wide-open grassland about 40 miles west of Houston.

The Florida manatee population is on the rise, though it continues to be threatened by human-related causes such as watercraft collisions, according to a new assessment from the Fish and Wildlife Service.

The rate of U.S. soil erosion held steady between 2007 and 2010 despite an expansion of acres planted in that period, according to a report released this week by the Department of Agriculture.

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