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Republican Sens. Mike Enzi and John Barrasso of Wyoming have written a bill that would block U.S. EPA from redrawing the boundary lines of a disputed American Indian reservation.

New York City is the most compact and connected major metropolitan area in the country; a four-county region in western North Carolina is the least, according to an index of urban sprawl released today by Smart Growth America.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board plans to vote next month on its staff report on a 2010 Tesoro refinery blast that killed seven workers in Anacortes, Wash.

Duke Energy Corp. is warning that a U.S. EPA hazardous designation of coal ash would make it difficult, if not impossible, to clean up slurry dumps.

A judge yesterday delayed the sentencing of a former BP PLC engineer involved in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.

The Justice Department yesterday charged California-based utility Pacific Gas & Electric Co. with 12 felony counts of safety violations in a deadly 2010 pipeline explosion near San Francisco.

The House yesterday approved two bills that would help West Coast states remove marine debris from the tsunami that caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant meltdown.

Five people are reported dead after a powerful earthquake shook northern Chile last night.

The National Marine Fisheries Service won't give federal protections to an Alaska population of the Pacific herring, the agency announced today.

President Obama yesterday admonished Iceland for its commercial whaling industry, but he stopped short of issuing trade sanctions against the country, a move that conservationists believe would help bring an end to the practice.

As rainstorms pounded parched California yesterday, state and federal water managers waived rules protecting endangered fish in hopes of refilling depleted reservoirs.

Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell said today he would work with law enforcement officials to address low morale among officers who say their work is hampered by poor leadership.

U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy faced renewed push-back this morning from Republican lawmakers over her agency's basis for proposing to require all new coal-fired power plants to use carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.

A week after the Obama administration released its proposal for clarifying which streams, creeks and wetlands should receive Clean Water Act protections, the country's largest agriculture group has declared itself in staunch opposition.

The federal civil service system "is in crisis," and drastic changes in employee pay, hiring and accountability are needed for the government to do its job, according to a new report.

The Supreme Court went a step further in deregulating the country's campaign finance laws today, striking down aggregate limits on how much an individual may contribute in one election cycle.

U.S. energy imports plunged to their lowest level in more than two decades last year and exports climbed thanks to a booming domestic oil and gas industry, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said today.

While the biomass energy sector has been labeled as green renewable energy, a report released today says burning scrap lumber and wood debris and agricultural waste products to create electricity is producing lots of air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions.

Startups are testing technologies they hope will turn an environmental problem in to big business opportunities.

In its just-released annual report on global clean energy investment, the Pew Charitable Trusts finds an 11 percent drop in investments in 2013. What contributed to the global decline, and what are the expectations for activity in the clean energy sector? During today's OnPoint, Phyllis Cuttino, director of Pew's Clean Energy Program, discusses the impact of policy uncertainty in the United States and Europe. She also weighs in on how the natural gas boom could be affecting clean energy investments.

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