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Tesla Motors Inc.'s system of selling electric cars directly to consumers -- instead of through franchise auto dealerships -- is meeting resistance from New Jersey and several other states.

For everyone from politicians to engineers to road builders, a groundbreaking for a new highway tends to be a lot more alluring than plugging a pothole.

Agribusiness companies and groups this week launched a new alliance to address the vast amount of data being generated by farmers on their lands.

Ethanol production slumped to its lowest level in two months last week as winter weather created challenges on the rail lines used to transport most of the nation's alcohol-based fuel.

An Exxon Mobil Corp. gas project in western Argentina is on pause after workers found more fossils than fuel.

About 80,000 clean energy and transportation jobs were created in 2013, according to a study put out this week by an environmental business group.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's acting chairwoman faulted The Wall Street Journal yesterday for releasing "sensitive information" in a story about physical attacks on the grid.

The Interior Department today said it has begun an environmental assessment of a proposed 12-megawatt offshore wind test facility off the coast of Virginia Beach, Va.

The Obama administration's controversial social cost of carbon underestimates the economic damage done by carbon dioxide emissions by ignoring some of warming's effects on health and resource availability, according to a report released today by New York University's Institute for Policy Integrity, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Defense Fund.

An Ohio prosecutor yesterday announced the indictments of nine Greenpeace activists tied to a protest at Procter & Gamble Co.'s Cincinnati headquarters earlier this month.

Montana's Supreme Court denied an appeal by local officials seeking to limit the zone in which bison could roam, on procedural grounds.

Vermont Law School and Lewis & Clark Law School were named the top environmental law programs in the country this week by U.S. News & World Report.

A 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel has unanimously upheld an Army Corps of Engineers permit for a Kentucky mountaintop removal project.

Stink bugs are surviving this year's frigid winter better than previously expected, according to experts, refuting one report of a 98 percent death rate for the invasive insect.

The blood-lead levels of endangered California condors in the Southwest have improved, a new test shows.

Florida wildlife officials have captured a dangerous Nile crocodile that was on the loose for nearly two years.

An extremely rare albino redwood is in danger of being axed to make way for commuter trains in a small town in Northern California.

The Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed downlisting a fish found off the California coast.

A Forest Service officer was killed yesterday during the hunt for a man who allegedly killed his own father and stepmother.

Kentucky lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow state and federal officials to run for multiple offices at once, a move aimed at paving the way for Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to seek re-election and the GOP presidential nomination in 2016.

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