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The House today easily passed a new bipartisan farm bill that reauthorizes agriculture and nutrition programs for the next five years. The chamber voted 251-166 in favor of H.R. 2642, despite opposition from some conservative Republicans and from Democrats concerned about its cut to the national food stamp program. Sixty-three Republicans and 103 Democrats voted against the bill.

As market dynamics and increased competition reshape the utility industry, what role will coal play in the United States' energy portfolio moving forward? During today's OnPoint, Mike Duncan, president and CEO of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, explains why he believes economics favor coal over natural gas for base-load power generation.

Electric vehicles were the best-selling cars in Norway in late 2013, driven by generous government subsidies, a robust countrywide charging network and perks like free parking.

About 1,400 people have filed a lawsuit against the makers of the three Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant reactors that melted down in 2011.

West Virginia's Senate passed a bill Tuesday without opposition that would create new regulations for aboveground chemical storage tanks.

California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) named one of his longtime energy advisers to a vacant spot at the state agency that oversees electric and natural gas utilities.

Italian authorities are continuing to investigate a field in southern Italy after two jailed mafia informants said it was a secret site where the Camorra organized crime organization had long buried toxic waste.

U.S. EPA is bowing out of a long-running battle with Florida health and environmental officials over the management of former phosphate mining sites.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board released a draft report late yesterday that faults oil company Tesoro Corp. for a 2010 refinery accident that killed seven workers in Anacortes, Wash.

Marathon Petroleum Corp. spilled 2 barrels of diesel fuel into the Mississippi River in Louisiana on Tuesday, the company reported.

A West Virginia environmental expert told a state legislative committee yesterday that he feared residents could be breathing formaldehyde gas after the chemical spill from a Freedom Industries Inc.-owned storage facility tainted the water supply for hundreds of thousands of people earlier this month.

The first Porsche ever built was an all-electric sports car with a top speed of 21 mph.

A Georgia Institute of Technology scientist says the United States could solve its nuclear waste storage problem by injecting radioactive material into underground shale rock formations.

The Energy Department today unveiled new energy efficiency standards for metal halide lamps that DOE says will make it cheaper to turn on the lights for high school football games and shrink the nation's carbon footprint.

Virginia state lawmakers are eyeing legislation they hope will limit the effect of forthcoming U.S. EPA carbon dioxide rules on their state's utility sector.

A teenager will be tried for homicide in Kansas following her arrest Monday in Everglades National Park.

The United States is seeking to continue its ban on allowing BP PLC to bid for new government contracts and oil leases.

U.S. EPA is promising to take "final action" on coal combustion waste disposal rules by December, according to a proposed consent decree filed yesterday in federal court.

The California Supreme Court yesterday transferred an appeal related to the state's bullet train to a state appellate court, rejecting a request by Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) administration to take up the case directly.

Police found hundreds of living and dead pythons stored in plastic bins stacked floor-to-ceiling in a five-bedroom California home.

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