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U.S. agriculture is booming despite slight decreases in the overall number of farms and the amount of acres farmed between 2007 and 2012, according to the latest U.S. agriculture census.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- U.S. ethanol exports are poised to rise and expand to new markets on the latest agricultural projections and policy uncertainty at home, experts said this week at a major industry conference here.

Federal auditors criticized the Department of Energy for failing to do enough to contain the rising costs of building a South Carolina plant meant to turn surplus plutonium into new fuel for power plants in a scathing report released yesterday.

A top Forest Service official in Colorado has been picked to lead recreation, business and volunteer programs at agency headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Tesoro Corp. has blocked officials from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board from entering a California refinery where two workers were hospitalized last week after being sprayed in the face with sulfuric acid when a pipe burst.

Massachusetts regulators yesterday approved the construction of a new natural gas-fired power plant with a limited life span.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission yesterday proposed to clarify a complex rule critical to building a market for energy storage in the United States and supplemental grid services tied to reliability and integrating renewables.

The coal industry is seeing a brighter future for its product after blasts of Arctic cold sparked spikes in natural gas prices.

Attorneys for the U.S. government want a federal judge in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill trial to speed up the "penalty phase" of the case, claiming there is already more than enough evidence to rule on the spill.

Massachusetts' highest court has ruled that a Hampden, Mass., homeowner cannot build a home on land that the state says is protected habitat of the eastern box turtle.

Exxon Mobil Corp. Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson has joined an anti-hydraulic fracturing lawsuit in his hometown of Bartonville, Texas.

Federal judges today threw out the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's approval of a gas storage facility's proposal to charge new customers for replacement gas at its facility in Louisiana.

A secretive canal project in Nicaragua could have devastating environmental consequences, warn scientists who believe the absurdity of the project is causing international conservation groups to not take it seriously enough.

The National Marine Fisheries Service today announced plans to consider protections for the Hector's dolphin, as well as three subpopulations of other marine mammal species.

The Interior Department is seeking the public's help in updating regulations for oil and gas development on the nation's wildlife refuges.

More than 100 scientists are asking the Obama administration to hold off approving seismic surveys to find oil and gas in the Atlantic Ocean until a forthcoming federal assessment of how the process affects marine mammals is finished.

More than 120 Democratic members of the House are urging President Obama to strengthen environmental protections in a new trade deal being hashed out with Pacific Rim countries.

The only efficiency bill to make it out of a House committee this session would cause few behavioral shifts and produce virtually no near-term savings, nonpartisan budgetary scorekeepers said yesterday.

The Nuclear Energy Institute has enlisted Patrick Moore, a founding member and former director of Greenpeace International, to be the new face of its clean air ads in this year's $2 million campaign.

A former Virginia House member whose 2010 defeat was attributed in part to his unapologetic support for climate change legislation is set to fill a State Department post on climate security.

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