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The French Environment Ministry today said shops and office buildings will be required to turn off their lights at night to save energy and reduce light pollution. As of July…

The U.S. Navy today said that after careful consideration of all options, it has decided to dismantle the minesweeper that ran aground on a coral reef in the Philippines. Navy…

SANTA FE, N.M. -- Legislation that would require the labeling of genetically modified foods sold in the state squeaked through a state Senate committee yesterday. Introduced by Sen. Peter Wirth…

U.S. EPA is planning to ban the sale of mouse and rat poisons that are not packaged well enough to prevent children from exposure to them, the agency announced today.…

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has begun the final step of a project to keep the drought-ravaged Mississippi River open to barges. The agency will extract about 64 cubic…

Irrigation in California's Central Valley could be causing summer precipitation to artificially increase, a recent study suggested. University of California, Irvine, scientists found that evapotranspiration and water vapor could have…

Authorities still don't know when they will be able to reopen a 16-mile stretch along the Mississippi River that was closed due to an oil spill. Four days after a…

Duke Energy Corp. named Paul Newton president for North Carolina as the utility continues changing its management. Newton was a senior vice president at the company and replaces Brett Carter.…

Ford Motor Co. predicts that a hybrid vehicle sales surge in January will jump-start a record year. Ford is expected to report it sold more than 6,000 hybrid vehicles so…

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission was right to propose a record $469.9 million fine against British bank Barclays PLC for gaming California power markets, agency staff said this week. FERC…

A Chinese-owned company that was blocked on national security grounds from operating wind turbines close to a U.S. Navy base in Oregon requested that a judge void its agreement to…

The Nigerian subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell PLC is responsible for oil pollution and must pay damages, a Dutch court ruled today. In the ruling, the district court in The…

Several environmental groups yesterday appealed the Bureau of Land Management's approval last month of an Arch Coal Inc. mine expansion in a Colorado roadless area. Previous appeal attempts with the…

Public health advocates yesterday took a different tack in defending U.S. EPA landmark mercury and air toxics standards from a legal challenge by touting the agency's economic analysis of the…

Stray and outdoor pet cats kill a median of 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion mammals a year in the United States, according to a new report. Native animals such…

The Bureau of Land Management will take control of eight small parcels of privately owned land in Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in an effort to keep them from being…

Texas regulators yesterday approved a coal mine that will be used to fuel electric plants just over the border in Mexico. Officials overruled objections that the mine would pollute the…

National Park Service rangers recovered the body Monday of a seasonal employee at Grand Teton National Park who died in an avalanche at the park, the agency said today. Nick…

As modern development tests the strength of New England's forests, conservationists and landowners are teaming up to protect the region's woodlands. New England has long been hailed as nature's success…

Environmentalists have launched online petitions in hopes of prompting the White House to fight whaling in the Antarctic and to protect the founder of a green group that has battled…

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