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Duke Energy Corp. sent North Carolina state regulators a framework for dealing with coal ash ponds around the state in the wake of last month's spill.

New details emerged this week about the truck that caught fire last month within an underground nuclear waste facility, and a Department of Energy official who led an investigation of the fire said the accident was "preventable."

Agriculture Department energy officials yesterday said they are working on rolling out the changes called for in the new farm bill, but that farmers may have to wait to receive the new funding provided by the legislation.

New York's largest utility believes its system will be safe from the effects of a changing climate for at least three decades thanks to a billion-dollar investment plan that regulators in the Empire State approved last month.

David Sive, a leading environmental lawyer who won landmark rulings to preserve New York wildlands, died Wednesday at the age of 91.

A former Superfund contract worker has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for bid-rigging, fraud and kickback schemes.

When the Supreme Court ruled this week that the government didn't own land under an abandoned railway in Wyoming and consequently couldn't build a bicycle trail there, North Carolina Rail-Trails' executive director, Carrie Banks, had a panic attack.

Google is shooting rapids and running the Colorado River to film a 360-degree view of the Grand Canyon for its Street View application.

A Miami-Dade County commissioner yesterday withdrew a vote on a controversial proposal to reduce manatee protections in southern Florida.

Hatchery fish are more likely to swim more slowly than their wild counterparts, a new finding that scientists hope will influence fisheries policy.

The Obama administration is asking the solar industry to submit detailed proposals for commercial-scale projects inside a southern Nevada solar energy zone, the first step in what could lead to another competitive auction to develop some of the nation's best solar resources.

SeaWorld has hired a lobbyist linked to the energy industry to fight a proposed California law that would ban orca performances at entertainment parks.

Pummeled by attacks from outside groups, Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson (R) released the first television ad in his re-election bid today, fending off a primary challenge from attorney Bryan Smith with a broad defense of his conservative record in Congress.

As refiners navigate internal differences of opinion in their industry over easing decades-old crude export limits, an oil processing firm steered by conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch is aligning with the free-fuel-trade camp.

An investigation commissioned by Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell (R) into a Clean Water Act enforcement operation near the Alaskan community of Chicken has largely cleared federal and state officials of wrongdoing.

A Senate Democrat whose bid for re-election this fall has been a top target for Republicans took the floor last night to decry the effect climate change has had on her state.

Legislation meant to ease propane shortages that caused electricity bills to skyrocket this winter is headed to President Obama's desk after unanimously clearing the Senate last night.

Federal appellate judges ruled today that a veteran U.S. EPA official's whistleblower retaliation suit cannot go forward because he took too long to file it.

Federal officials and environmentalists are cheering a long-awaited court decision that could mark the end of a long, bitter fight over the fate of an endangered fish in California's Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

Some pilots flying near the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System plant in Southern California have reported that reflected sunlight off thousands of heliostat mirrors at the site could be a possible safety hazard, with one pilot reporting he was "momentarily blinded" by intense sunlight from the solar plant.

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