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Tokyo Electric Power Co. has halted cleanup work at Japan's ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after a worker was killed today by being buried under gravel while digging a ditch.

An Ohio utility is lobbying businesses and industry groups on the eve of an expected effort to freeze state renewable energy mandates.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) is letting an energy efficiency program die after two years in operation.

Rivals in the Texas governor's race largely have steered clear of oil and gas issues, but their records and statements in recent days show a major contrast on energy policy.

One million jars of peanut butter with no health or safety issues are being dumped into a landfill to speed up the sale of a bankrupt peanut-processing plant in New Mexico.

A top official at Canada's nuclear safety agency told lawmakers that cylinders carrying radioactive material fell while being unloaded earlier this month in Halifax, Nova Scotia, because they were not properly secured to a crane.

An eight-person investigative team plans to enter the underground nuclear waste storage site in New Mexico where an accidental radiation release occurred last month.

Members of a U.S. EPA scientific advisory board meeting this week in North Carolina seemed poised to urge a lower standard for ozone than the current 75 parts per billion -- but the panel members were torn about the exact figures to recommend.

California's planned high-speed rail system will likely take about 30 minutes longer than promised to make the trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles, an official told a state Senate committee yesterday.

The Senate has unanimously confirmed Kathryn Thomson to be the Transportation Department's general counsel.

With the Highway Trust Fund running short of revenue, Congress should allow nationwide use of tolls -- but with some major twists -- to pay for interstate highway modernization, the libertarian think tank Reason Foundation contends in a new report.

Light-emitting diode manufacturer Cree Inc. this week said it has reached a new lighting efficiency record, producing 303 lumens per watt from a white high-power LED at room temperature.

More than 5 million gallons of tainted Exxon Mobil Corp. gasoline has caused fuel problems for drivers across Louisiana, according to a state official.

Ratepayer organizations and two utilities yesterday agreed that Southern California consumers would receive $1.4 billion in refunds on their electricity bills over the next eight years due to the shutdown of a nuclear power plant.

BP PLC representatives say more oil -- between 15 and 39 barrels -- may have spilled into Lake Michigan from an Indiana refinery near Chicago than was previously believed.

James Schlesinger, the nation's first energy secretary and a longtime Washington, D.C., official who also served as secretary of Defense, died yesterday. He was 85.

The Obama administration is proposing to approve an expansion of the Navajo coal mine and permits associated with the Four Corners Power Plant within the Navajo Nation in northwestern New Mexico.

New Mexico's growing pecan industry is poised for a banner year, despite one of the worst droughts in state history.

A Montana woman yesterday was sentenced to 30 years and five months in prison for pushing her husband of eight days off a cliff in Glacier National Park in July 2013.

Environmentalists say limited harm has come to bird sanctuaries in the Houston Ship Channel less than a week after an oil spill tainted the area, but it's still too soon to determine long-term effects.

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