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A tax reduction bill for manufacturers is moving through the Arizona Senate, dividing the governor's office and its legislative supporters from many local officials concerned about its potential impact on government revenue.

A state legislative committee in Utah has approved a bill setting standards for how the state would manage federal lands if it were to receive permission to do so.

Creative costumes on display at Rio de Janeiro's annual Carnival parades often end up strewn on the ground after events conclude, creating a challenge for hundreds of cleanup workers.

BALTIMORE -- A coalition of chemical industry groups released a set of voluntary guidelines at an industry convention here this week that companies can use to develop programs that identify less hazardous chemical alternatives in their manufacturing processes.

Illinois regulators filed suit yesterday against a company storing petroleum coke on Chicago's Southeast Side, alleging that in trying to prevent one environmental problem, the company created another.

Americans, often oblivious to how much water they use each day and the best ways to conserve it, end up using twice as much as they think they do, according to a new study from researchers at Indiana University.

A Singapore-based tanker company will pay a $1.2 million penalty for dumping oily bilgewater in international waters, the Department of Justice announced yesterday.

The drought in California has led to a record-tying surge in air pollution levels across the state, air quality officials said yesterday.

The head of the Bonneville Power Administration has named two top staff members, filling a pair of key vacancies at the head of the troubled agency.

The prominent discussion of climate change in a major strategy document released by the Defense Department yesterday signals that the issue is getting mainstream attention within the military, security analysts say.

Climate change is real, according to the leader of the world's largest mining company, but coal is likely to remain the world's dominant fuel as developing countries work to alleviate poverty before addressing environmental concerns.

U.S. EPA has extended the public comment period by two months to May 9 for the proposed carbon dioxide rule for new power plants.

U.S. EPA's upcoming rule to limit carbon dioxide emissions from today's power plant fleet should encourage as much demand-side energy efficiency as possible, according to a white paper released yesterday by the Harvard Environmental Policy Initiative.

A Washington, D.C., law firm has recruited the top lawyers from two California agencies as it expands its energy focus.

The White House's environmental shop has recruited its new top attorney from U.S. EPA.

Greenpeace activists who hung protest banners from Procter & Gamble Co. headquarters in Cincinnati yesterday have been arrested, according to the city police department.

Bears in California's Yosemite National Park have a healthier diet than ever before, a new study shows.

The Fish and Wildlife Service yesterday released updated plans to protect the pallid sturgeon in the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.

The Fish and Wildlife Service designated today more than 760,000 acres as critical habitat for jaguars in Arizona and New Mexico.

Two bird advocacy groups, fresh off a successful effort to block a wind turbine project at an Air National Guard base in northern Ohio, are raising concerns about an even larger proposed wind project at a nearby business park on the shores of Lake Erie that they say could harm bald eagles and other sensitive wildlife.

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