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Two conservation groups, including one of the nation's largest bird advocacy groups, are urging the Obama administration not to grant a special permit to harm or kill eagles at a proposed wind farm in Wyoming that would be among the world's biggest.

Environmental groups yesterday pledged to continue their legal fight against Idaho's wolf management program in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness after the state announced plans to reduce wolf numbers near the Middle Fork of the Salmon River by up to 60 percent.

DENVER -- Looking to win an election in the Mountain West? Then show voters you support renewable energy and don't suggest selling off federal lands to reduce the budget deficit.

The Obama administration today praised the full operation of the world's largest solar thermal plant in California's Mojave Desert, a project financed through a $1.6 billion Energy Department loan guarantee.

The oil and gas lobby is taking up a new strategy in its opposition to proposed U.S. EPA rules limiting sulfur in gasoline, requesting that the White House delay implementation past the planned 2017 start date.

Nebraska state Sen. Brad Ashford (D) today announced that he will run against Rep. Lee Terry (R-Neb.) for his 2nd District House seat this fall.

The Center for Biological Diversity yesterday criticized a House Republican report on reforming the Endangered Species Act, saying it was "riddled with errors."

A House bill to limit U.S. EPA's power-sector carbon rules would cost the federal government a small sum and delay a rulemaking for new plants by two years, the Congressional Budget Office said yesterday.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- After living most of her 71 years in Institute, a community 9 miles west of here, Sue Davis knows danger's part of life for people living in the shadow of chemical manufacturers. She's had her house rocked by a plant explosion, seen frightened neighbors move away and felt so nauseated from fumes she couldn't think straight.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee welcomed its new chairwoman this morning, but it was forced to postpone a vote on two high-level Interior Department nominees after only four members braved this morning's snowstorm.

The U.S. EPA general counsel rejected allegations yesterday about his agency engaging in a so-called sue-and-settle strategy as "a wholly invented accusation that gets no more true with frequent retelling."

House Natural Resources Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) announced today he will retire at the end of the year after serving 20 years in Congress, including four atop one of the House's most influential panels on energy policy.

How should state regulators be influencing the business model evolution facing the electric power sector? During today's OnPoint, Colette Honorable, president of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, discusses the role of regulators in the net metering debate, the transition to a diversified fuel supply and transmission planning challenges. Honorable, whose name was circulated as a potential candidate for the top spot on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, also comments on the nomination of Norman Bay to lead the agency.

The French government yesterday instituted a temporary ban on the planting of genetically modified maize, while continuing to work on passing a longer-term legal ban.

Finland's prime minister is planning an economic overhaul with renewable energy and other high-tech innovations leading the way.

China's investments in energy efficiency accounted for a third of the world's total as the country spent more in the sector than the United States for the first time.

An Iowa Senate subcommittee yesterday approved a bill that would require the state's investor-owned utilities to provide at least 105 megawatts of solar energy to their customers.

Opposition is growing in the Alaska Legislature over one of the largest proposed hydroelectric projects in the United States.

North Carolina environmental regulators and a top Duke Energy Corp. executive told state lawmakers in Raleigh yesterday there was no immediate threat to public health from the company's coal ash spill in the Dan River during the first hearing lawmakers had scheduled to learn more about the environmental accident.

Traces of chemicals that can pollute waterways remain even in high-end children's clothing and shoes, according to Greenpeace in findings that challenge the perception held by many consumers that toxic compounds are used primarily in low-priced consumer products.

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