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After leaving his post as deputy director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality earlier this year, how is Gary Guzy now advising industry clients to prepare for the Obama administration's air regulations? During today's OnPoint, Guzy, senior of counsel at Covington & Burling, gives his take on the current state of play on regulation and the possibility for litigation resulting from U.S. EPA's New Source Performance Standards. Guzy also discusses the impact White House counselor John Podesta is having on the administration's climate narrative.

Minnesota's Environmental Quality Board voted unanimously to approve new model regulations for local governments to use as they manage the state's booming sand mine industry, although both environmentalists and industry groups have already cried foul over the suggested options.

An Arizona Senate committee approved a bill that would allow electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors Inc. to sell cars in the state without establishing a dealership network.

Museums increasingly are focusing on sustainability when it comes to planning and dismantling exhibits.

Residents of a Los Angeles-area community are furious at the slow response to high lead levels in soil and the lack of action taken against the supposed source of the pollutant, a nearby battery recycling plant.

Last month's radiation leak at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., has been a major setback for efforts to use the facility or a similar site to dispose of nuclear waste, a panel of nuclear experts said yesterday.

U.S. EPA has reached a voluntary agreement with two companies to remove a potent chemical used in pet flea products from the marketplace, although environmental groups aren't happy the agency is giving manufacturers more than two years to fully do so.

Bee advocates today delivered more than half a million signatures to U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy urging her agency to suspend the use of an insecticide linked to pollinator deaths.

BP PLC will not set a new target for renewable energy investments as it seeks to rebound from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill that could cost the company up to $42 billion.

The fisheries arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration would receive $82.3 million less under President Obama's fiscal 2015 budget proposal than its most recent appropriations, though officials yesterday maintained that would not hurt the agency's mission.

China is accelerating its efforts to develop a uranium-free nuclear power plant as public pressure builds to reduce the country's reliance on coal and rid its major cities of air pollution.

The British government has approved construction of two adjacent wind farm projects off the northeast Scottish coast that combined will create the third-largest offshore wind farm in the world, creating 5,000 jobs and generating enough electricity to power a million homes.

Massive solar blasts that would have damaged electrical grids and satellites narrowly missed hitting Earth in 2012, scientists say.

Transparency advocates this week renewed their push for the Securities and Exchange Commission to issue a new rule requiring oil, gas and mining companies to disclose their payments to governments.

The Department of Energy's Office of Legacy Management has moved toward restarting a program to lease government lands for uranium mining with the distribution of a programmatic environmental impact statement of leasing activities.

GOLDEN, Colo. -- The Bureau of Land Management's reform of nearly century-old oil and gas royalty rates will likely have to wait until the agency finalizes rules on hydraulic fracturing and methane emissions, a top official said here yesterday.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. and Encana Corp.'s U.S. division yesterday pleaded not guilty to charges that they conspired to bring down lease prices in Michigan.