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A legislative panel controlled by Democrats voted to recommend rejecting proposed rules that would have eased environmental restrictions on metal and mineral mining in Maine.

A state lawmaker in California has introduced a bill that would ban SeaWorld from using orcas in shows at the company's flagship theme park in San Diego.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's (R) administration did not break any rules by handing a no-bid contract to a company to remove debris from Superstorm Sandy, according to a federal audit released today.

The ocean may work to clear the air at night, a new study shows.

A new study is raising concerns about the environmental and health effects of diesel exhaust from rail traffic and coal dust particles from moving trains.

The Coast Guard has failed to make hundreds of operational changes required after the Deepwater Horizon spill, according to the agency's inspector general.

Meet Liz Purchia, the newest addition to U.S. EPA's communications team.

After a natural gas well exploded last month outside a small Pennsylvania town, killing a worker, Chevron Corp. offered locals pizza coupons as an apology, enraging critics.

The pay for BP PLC's chief executive tripled last year despite the energy giant's ongoing legal and financial problems stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.

South Dakota will use gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol in its state fleet, Gov. Dennis Daugaard (R) announced yesterday.

Decades of unresolved litigation over a Southern California housing development gained a new lawsuit this week, bolstering environmental opposition in a legal conflict over the fate of the region's last wild river.

Gov. Rick Scott (R) has ordered the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to join other states in a pending federal lawsuit over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Federal appellate judges ruled yesterday that a large lawsuit brought by military veterans against defense contractors for their management of burn pits and water treatment in Iraq and Afghanistan may move forward.

A California judge has ruled that a water-banking deal between the state and private landowners was done without a proper environmental analysis and violates state law.

A California appeals court has ruled that the Marin County government failed to properly assess the impacts of proposed development on threatened coho salmon and steelhead trout in its latest land-use plan, a plan first adopted by county supervisors in 2007.

Alaska's Department of Natural Resources this week said it will quarantine five plants in a new crackdown to contain invasive plant infestations in the state's rivers and lakes.

A federal judge this week dismissed a lawsuit over a "no-otter" zone in Southern California, but parties on both sides say the case's future is still up in the air.

Scientists have created a computer model that they hope will save honeybees.

A Republican plan to give states more control over federal highway spending received prominent praise yesterday from House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).

The Agriculture Department's conservation agency is moving "full steam ahead" on putting in place the changes envisioned by the new farm bill, Natural Resources Conservation Chief Jason Weller said yesterday.

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