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As Supreme Court justices struggled this week with how much criminals convicted of possessing child pornography must pay in restitution to victims, an Obama administration lawyer drew a parallel to how the costs of Superfund cleanups are divided among responsible parties.

Distributed generation is creating challenges and opportunities for regulators, utilities and consumers. How will it affect the evolving utility business model, and how should the various stakeholders manage the challenges, including net metering, as consumer demands change? During today's E&ETV special report, utility, regulatory and renewable energy experts discuss the critical issues surrounding distributed generation and debate the path forward. Interviewed experts include Jon Wellinghoff, past chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and now a partner at Stoel Rives; Jeff Navin, former chief of staff at the Department of Energy and now a partner at Boundary Stone Partners; Lisa Wood, vice president of the Edison Foundation and executive director of the Institute for Electric Innovation; Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association; and Peter Behr, reporter with E&E Publishing's EnergyWire.

Seven Chinese workers reportedly are dead after an Indian oil tanker undergoing repairs at a Chinese shipyard exploded and caught fire today.

The northeastern Indian state of Assam wants to switch time zones.

A U.N. court yesterday set a maritime boundary between Peru and Chile, ending a decades-old dispute over fishing rights in the Pacific Ocean.

Legislation that would make it harder for a Los Angeles-based air district to force the removal of beach fire rings passed the California Assembly yesterday and is moving to the state Senate.

Families of workers killed in chemical accidents say it's frustrating to see similar regulatory gaps cause the deaths of others years after they lost their loved ones.

U.S. EPA removed more than 1,900 acres of a former air force base in Irvine, Calif., from the Superfund list yesterday, clearing the way for long-stalled redevelopment efforts in the Orange County city.

A new study has linked DDT exposure to a higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

Members of Congress and labor groups are criticizing the U.S. Chemical Safety Board for scheduling a "listening session" and not a public meeting this week on its draft report on the April 2010 explosion that killed seven workers at a Tesoro Corp. refinery.

More than half of the 30 livestock antibiotics tested in a Food and Drug Administration review pose a "high risk" of exposing humans to antibiotic-resistant bacteria through the food supply, according to a report from an environmental group.

Louisiana has released a new plan to reduce water pollution in the Gulf of Mexico, but environmental groups say the proposal doesn't go far enough.

Oklahoma has agreed to let a North Texas water district once again pump water from Lake Texoma, despite the fact that the district's pumps sit just inside Oklahoma.

U.S. EPA is set to move forward with its oft-delayed plans to revise its limits on ozone pollution, scheduling a meeting of a scientific review board this spring to discuss the standards.

The construction industry stands to lose billions of dollars in economic activity and several thousand jobs if the Highway Trust Fund runs out of money next year, a study shows.

President Obama tonight will announce that he will raise the minimum wage for federal contract workers, using an executive order to do what Congress has not.

As President Obama plans to unveil a plan to fight poverty in his State of the Union speech tonight, some experts are skeptical about part of a plan to designate special zones to attract attention -- and money -- to areas of high need.

Duke Energy Corp. says it won't buy a stake in two units being built at the V.C. Summer nuclear plant in South Carolina, and the plant's operator will sell a stake to another company instead.

Florida police Saturday arrested a teenager on charges of illegal camping in Everglades National Park only to discover that she was a missing person wanted in connection with a 2-week-old homicide in Kansas.

A federal judge yesterday sentenced a radical environmental activist to five years in prison for committing arson in Oregon, Colorado and California in the late 1990s.

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